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- speg, on 09/01/2009, -18/+279Is this really 26 pages?
- ultimathule, on 09/01/2009, -5/+216Yes, but it's the best review of Snow Leopard you'll ever find.
- rajputwarrior, on 09/01/2009, -1/+131that's the definition of in depth gizmodo....
- dyranios2, on 09/01/2009, -0/+121I was also surprised by the length of it, especially given the advertised "0 new features" but I started reading and although I admit I don't understand all of it, some of it is interesting and I am grateful for the authors efforts, kinda puts the gizmondo and engadget reviews to shame :p
- ninjadave, on 09/01/2009, -9/+98Got it, installed it. Things are faster. Safari is quick, Quicktime is quick, definitely better load on the dual core.
For 29 bucks, do you really need to think twice? - monodistortion, on 09/01/2009, -1/+78The Snow Leopard review by John Siracusa on Ars Technica == required reading for tech heads
- alwillis, on 09/01/2009, -1/+69So if you support Mac users in whatever capacity—a university, your friends and family or a Fortune 500 company—you need to read this review. And if you only can read one comprehensive review, this is the one you should read. It'll save you dozens of hours of having to hunt down details and check facts that Siracusa has included in this article.
- rtaibah, on 09/01/2009, -3/+66LOL, even Gizmodo doesn't want to go head to head with this 23 page epic review:
"Twenty. Three. Pages. Ars' deeply technical review of Snow Leopard ain't for the faint of heart, but if you want to dive deep inside Snow Leopard's guts, after our comparatively breezy take, the entry point is here"
http://gizmodo.com/5350127/the-other-snow-leopard- ... - deepak1uw, on 09/01/2009, -4/+64Some Nice Review
- anderzole, on 09/01/2009, -0/+60Siracusa bringing the heat once again
- falser, on 09/01/2009, -1/+56Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click.
- Nothlit, on 09/01/2009, -0/+51It doesn't take much to put Gizmodo and Engadget to shame...
- falser, on 09/01/2009, -3/+54Here is the short version of the review:
"It's good." - freshyill, on 09/01/2009, -2/+45It's good.
- kevlar21, on 09/01/2009, -0/+40dugg for the right amount of "Click"s
- akatsuki, on 09/01/2009, -0/+39What makes them good is their depth.
- jdh24, on 09/01/2009, -1/+36you need to take into account that snow leopard changes the file system size measurement to the industry standard base10 instead of base2.. everything will look proportionally larger, so part of that space is just an illusion
- spect3r, on 09/01/2009, -0/+34Ars really means "in depth" when they say "in depth"
Good on 'em! - SirZRX, on 09/01/2009, -2/+34finally a non biased review.
- monodistortion, on 09/01/2009, -1/+30Err, it was 23 pages when I read it.
- nowise, on 09/01/2009, -0/+28That is also in the article:
Snow Leopard has another trick up its sleeve when it comes to disk usage. The Snow Leopard Finder considers 1 GB to be equal to 109 (1,000,000,000) bytes, whereas the Leopard Finder—and, it should be noted, every version of the Finder before it—equates 1 GB to 230 (1,073,741,824) bytes. This has the effect of making your hard disk suddenly appear larger after installing Snow Leopard. For example, my "1 TB" hard drive shows up in the Leopard Finder as having a capacity of 931.19 GB. In Snow Leopard, it's 999.86 GB. As you might have guessed, hard disk manufacturers use the powers-of-ten system. It's all quite a mess, really. Though I come down pretty firmly on the powers-of-two side of the fence, I can't blame Apple too much for wanting to match up nicely with the long-established (but still dumb, mind you) hard disk vendors' capacity measurement standard. - diulei, on 09/01/2009, -0/+27Diablo?
- wonderchemist, on 09/01/2009, -1/+25Free memory is wasted memory.
- CaseL0gic, on 09/01/2009, -0/+23dugg for sheer effort put into this 23 page review
- designerutah, on 09/01/2009, -1/+24Fred: None of your comments are ever positive on an Apple story. All you ever do is complain. So my question to you is: Why bother posting at all? It's obvious you don't like Apple, their products, their customers, or the way this whole niche works. So why stick your face into this mess?
I know this is going to sound paranoid, but I can't see any reason you would waste your time... unless you were being paid? - nowise, on 09/01/2009, -0/+22Finally a decent review instead of "Hey it's 29 bucks just buy it already! At that price do you really need to know how it works?!"
- N0DIGGITY, on 09/01/2009, -0/+21He was saying that gizmodo could learn a thing or two from the ars technica review, I believe. Just left out a comma.
- PDA131, on 09/01/2009, -0/+21My jaw dropped when I saw all twenty-three links at the bottom. I thought it was a joke. Turns out is a thesis paper.
- stevensj2, on 09/01/2009, -5/+25My take on 10.6:
's no Leopard.
/rimshot - RoroCo, on 09/01/2009, -0/+19The Ars Technica review is a dupe to a PC Mag review?
- thunderl, on 09/01/2009, -30/+48tl;dr
- harsesus, on 09/01/2009, -0/+18you gotta take into consideration the source - Ars Technica does REALLY in-depth *****... frequently... i understand most people are used to a quick review, but once your familiar with the source...
- digitalpencil, on 09/01/2009, -0/+17my name is fredfredrickson and i troll mac threads.
- Jektal, on 09/01/2009, -0/+17Zip Disk?
- cheezygrin, on 09/01/2009, -0/+17dugg for "gizmondo".
- MacParrot, on 09/01/2009, -2/+18I got back almost 20GB of space on my MBP drive after installin SL (went from 140.8 free space to 159.4...Haven't had to install Rosetta yet). Has anyone else seen a jump this big on any of their Macs?
- tinkafoo, on 09/01/2009, -0/+16Yeah! That's the Ars I know and love!
If you don't like reading a 23 page review, go to somebody else's website! - kafuka, on 09/01/2009, -3/+19Read the entire article or don't post.
No tl;dr please. - nedev, on 09/01/2009, -4/+20Why are you being dugg down? You know 90% of the people here thought the exact same thing, so let's own up to it.
- kinadian, on 09/01/2009, -0/+16Any Mac you buy now will come with Snow Leopard. Although, depending on when your Mac is manufactured, it may simply be a disc included in the box that you'll have to install yourself.
- inajeep, on 09/01/2009, -2/+18Would you prefer a scale of 1 to 5 or maybe a two thumbs sort of review?
kids. *pfft* - eadnams, on 09/01/2009, -1/+16Did you even read the GCD stuff? Thats frakking sweet.
- muzzy, on 09/01/2009, -1/+16@ mathcreative
Ever considered they're not biased, they're simply intelligent and reviewing a system honestly?
Seriously, Ars tells it like it is, and they always have. Whether it be hardware or software, from Intel to IBM, Microsoft to Apple. They're a smart bunch... perhaps a little too smart.
If you read the full article, you'll see Ars is harsh on the points they don't like. - ModernTenshi, on 09/01/2009, -0/+15Any man who names one of his drives Link and gives it a Link icon earns my respect.
- freshyill, on 09/01/2009, -1/+15Yeah, I have a job too. That's why no woman will have me.
- tushyd, on 09/01/2009, -1/+15The author does make it clear that those were his opinions. Also, I agree with the author.
- eadnams, on 09/01/2009, -0/+13They did for Vista.
- eadnams, on 09/01/2009, -0/+13CS4 works fine for me.
- UnWeave, on 09/01/2009, -0/+13Holy *****! The same OS has been reviews more than once
- migitalwarfare, on 09/01/2009, -3/+15Streamlining code by updating everything away from universal binary and into 64bit is hardly a service pack, but you keep throwing ***** around, sooner or later something's gotta stick, right?
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