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Will you upgrade to SnowLeopard ?

Will you upgrade to SnowLeopard ?

  • Yes, definitely !

    Votes: 292 91.5%

  • No, I'm not impressed.

    Votes: 4 1.3%

  • Well, I'll see....

    Votes: 23 7.2%
  • Total voters
    319
jashsayani

jashsayani

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Feb 7, 2009
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An upgrade to SnowLeopard is not much, just $29 which is a good deal. At the same time, SnowLeopard has few great updates like Screen recording with QuickTime, Text expanding and Google Cal Sync. Rest are mostly security updates, etc.

Everyone has mixed openions about upgrading to SnowLeopard. Just wanted to know the opinions of the MacRumors community.
 
It's a no-brainer - $30 for an OS upgrade that gives you better multi-core support, as well as updating a lot of little things in the OS in general, OpenCL and Grand Central technologies...

Whoever doesn't take advantage of this is missing out on a great deal!

I'll be at the Apple Store the day it comes out.
 
GoKyu said:
It's a no-brainer - $30 for an OS upgrade that gives you better multi-core support, as well as updating a lot of little things in the OS in general, OpenCL and Grand Central technologies...

Whoever doesn't take advantage of this is missing out on a great deal!

I'll be at the Apple Store the day it comes out.
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Yeah, seems like a good deal to me too...

Just read several comments on TUAW that its not worth.....
 
Absolutly I will be getting it. I will be getting the family pack since I have two MBP's and a MB that I need to put it on. I can't wait!

Leopard is smooth but if SL makes better use of the processor then that is great!
 
I think it's worth bearing in mind we'll get more info on June 16/17th about Snow Leopard, and also that we haven't seen any benchmarks yet beyond the given Snow Leopard Server ones, and the decent improvement expectation for decoding/encoding.
 
I have a question about this:
If you already own Leopard, you are entitled to the $29 update but, how will it work?. I see two options here:

1) It's installed over Leopard (and then removes the PPC support files, etc., to reduce its size?).

2) It detects you have Leopard installed and then allows you to format your HD and do a clean install.

How do you think it's gonna work?
 
I have tiger so Id have to get a Mac Box Set, or buy Leopard now and then upgrade to SL later. Ill do it if there is much benefit for Core Duo, despite not being 64-bit
 
For sure - esp if your buying a family pack that brings your per license cost to $10. So $10 for a much faster computer (esp when the new technologies are utilized), a couple new UI features, quicktime X, and 6gb of your harddrive back? That seems like a no brainer? I'm not sure who (other than the casual user who doesnt follow this stuff, ie no one on a MR forum) wouldnt do this upgrade... (other than PPC users) :confused:
 
Very much looking forward to Snow Leopard. 95% of the features will be usable on my Intel iMac, so... I have no reason NOT to upgrade. :D

(The lone exception being OpenCL, as my GPU isn't supported.)
 
charlesbronsen said:
I will for sure upgrade. So when is supposed to be released? don't hit me
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It'll be released in September. Apple wouldn't dare release on September 11 (a Friday), but I could definitely see them releasing it on the 8th (a Tuesday). Also, in the past, as the release date approaches, Apple's posted a countdown on their site to the release. This time should be no different.
 
GoKyu said:
It's a no-brainer - $30 for an OS upgrade that gives you better multi-core support, as well as updating a lot of little things in the OS in general, OpenCL and Grand Central technologies...

Whoever doesn't take advantage of this is missing out on a great deal!

I'll be at the Apple Store the day it comes out.
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Just make sure your hardware is 'up to speed' to take advantage.

I do not believe my ONE YEAR OLD iMac is up to spec ......

Meanwhile, Apple also details which GPUs will be supported for their upcoming OpenCL API. OpenCL will allow developers to easily offload additional processing tasks to the computer's GPU. Some tasks may find greater benefit from this than others, but could potentially offer substantial performance boosts. The list of supported GPUs include:

- NVIDIA Geforce 8600M GT, GeForce 8800 GT, GeForce 8800 GTS, Geforce 9400M, GeForce 9600M GT, GeForce GT 120, GeForce GT 130.
- ATI Radeon 4850, Radeon 48709
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The GPU in my one year old iMac is not listed.

I have this .....
ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro:

Chipset Model: ATI,RadeonHD2600
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I'll probably upgrade anyway - heck it cost less than a carton of cigarettes and since I do not smoke, I'll just pretend I am throwing away money like smokers do! :lol:
 
I'll be buying the family pack for $49 it as soon as it's available for pre order. I will be installing it the day I receive it. I'm not scared, I have balls!
 
Yup I sure will. I was never excited about Tiger, Panther, Leopard ... but somehow the Keynote excited me about SL. Also $50 to upgrade 3 machines or $30 to upgrade 1 machine and accidentally upgrade the other two .... yeah it's a no brainer.
 
I ordered a MBP on Monday. $10 for the upgrade disc is less than two lattes. Not to mention I've spent that much on single iPhone apps.

Yes, I'm upgrading.
 
I would if by that time my MB is still relatively clean.

Upgrade system may results in many strange mistakes, I normally do clean installation, as most people here at MR suggested.

So I hope I won't have too much stuff on my MB by that time, since I just reinstalled it two days ago.

Likely, $29 might get further discount in universities, I would love to get it for $10.
 
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