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- zwei, on 11/19/2008, -4/+80I am so glad they are working on performance/stability this time. They have thrown in enough stuff (spotlight/dashboard/exposé/spaces/time machine) in the last couple years. I am looking forward to a new Cocoa Finder and true Exchange support ...but I'm mostly excited about the new stuff they are doing with GPU acceleration and multi-core awareness.
- cyclades, on 11/19/2008, -4/+54The irony is, this being my first Mac, Leopard to me is highly stable compared to my old windows days. Yet to older Mac users they all grumbles. So if Snow Leopard impresses them, I can't wait to see what it turns out o be like.
- snverhallen, on 11/19/2008, -7/+55I'm really glad their focusing on stability this release. I've found that Leopard has been a bit unstable for me lately, so Snow Leopard will be a welcome addition
- BossKey, on 11/19/2008, -3/+38@bbardlbradd - that's pathetic. The best way to convince companies to stop copy protection is to not become the example of why they use it; to not insult the very companies that are the least restrictive:
Users: "Stop treating us like criminals with your activation!"
Industry: "If we don't do that, you'll pirate the hell out of it."
Users: "What kind of an attitude is that to assume the worst about your own customers?"
Apple: "It's OK, we trust you. There is no activation for OS X."
bbardlbradd: "Hey everybody, let's pirate OS X!!!"
Industry: "Thank you so very, very much for proving that we were right all along."
Apple: "We trusted you and you made us look like fools." - CIAVT, on 11/19/2008, -0/+33A: Don't be surprised if PPC support isn't in Snow Leopard.
B: I'd rather have this update percolate longer in the labs and finally be released "when it's ready" then have it ship early and buggy. I can wait till next summer/early fall for a stable system. - peestandingup, on 11/19/2008, -4/+37"Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) Due in Q1 2009???"
There, I fixed it for you. - DavidTurnbull, on 11/20/2008, -0/+32Mac OS X Lolcat 10.7
- pyrates, on 11/19/2008, -1/+25Sorry, but it will be. Leopard is the last PPC release of OS X.
- vawksel, on 11/19/2008, -3/+26Leopard has been perfectly stable for me. I'm not trolling, i'm serious. I run a Mac Pro 8-core system, running Adobe Flex, Photoshop, TextMate, Firefox, VMWare (XP, CentOS and Ubuntu Simultaneously), Netbeans, XCode 3, Rails (mongrel), Safari, Opera, iTunes and at least a half dozen other programs here and there.
All at the same time, running as long as Apple will let me run without rebooting for updates (usually weeks or months).
I never once had the OS itself crash, ever. - logicalriot, on 11/19/2008, -3/+24they're going to run out of large cats
- FitFinlay, on 11/19/2008, -2/+21Will this boost in stability be worth the $129 price tag? There has to be some new feature implemented in snow leopard to make it worth the price tag. ZFS would be a good start for all of us, not just on the servers.
- timusca, on 11/19/2008, -3/+21Whether it is worth the $129 is up to you... some people might be willing to spend the money to make things more stable, but if you don't want to upgrade, then don't. If you're happy with Leopard the way it is, then either don't upgrade or visit The Pirate Bay.
- insertAliasHere, on 11/19/2008, -1/+16cukkooo is a spam bot that copies one of the comments on the page and adds his site to it. Bury and report.
- inactive, on 11/19/2008, -11/+25At least it isn't a $219 like Vista Ultimate is.
- superkendall, on 11/19/2008, -8/+22Beats paying Microsoft $169 for a disservice pack.
- FredFredrickson, on 11/19/2008, -3/+17No.
- inactive, on 11/19/2008, -5/+18The irony is, Snow Leopard is supposed to freeze less than regular Leopard.
- dreamtiger, on 11/19/2008, -2/+14Agreed, let's hope ZFS makes the cut.
- AndrewWiggin, on 11/19/2008, -3/+14hahaha "their" hahahaha
- inactive, on 11/19/2008, -3/+14One's human and one's a spambot. Guess which is which.
http://www.pornspam4u.com/porn.exe - DrBrianFields, on 11/20/2008, -1/+12uhh, actually they're on 10.5.5, so I don't think 10.5.1 is gonna work.
- 4NDr01D, on 11/19/2008, -1/+11dont worry snow leopard wont work on PPC chips
- dagamer34, on 11/19/2008, -2/+11Exchange support is well worth the $129. You'd know if you had to rely on Entourage to get your school/corporate e-mail.
- superkendall, on 11/19/2008, -1/+10I can't see them re-writing it without at least just improving the features that are there - and very possibly increasing performance for things like WebDAV or AFP. That has me pretty excited.
- virtualball, on 11/20/2008, -0/+9Mac OS X 10.7 Calico Kitten
- DelMonte, on 11/20/2008, -1/+9I REALLY hope that Snow Leopard will bring back customizable columns for Spotlight results like you had in Tiger. That's the only thing I'm asking for.
- pitchblackjava, on 11/19/2008, -4/+12I'll definitely pony up for a more stable system than Leopard.
- kevin52094, on 11/20/2008, -0/+8Cougar? Lion? Then we can move onto OSXI 11.0 Grizzly 11.1 Polar 11.3 Black
- drlha, on 11/19/2008, -1/+8"No new functionality" might be pushing it, I'm sure there will be changes, but agreed, the change from Carbon to Cocoa in Finder is mainly due to the move to 64 bit.
- DNABeast, on 11/20/2008, -1/+8But who's going to upgrade to 'Tabby'?
- calon9, on 11/19/2008, -3/+9One's human and one's a spambot. Guess which is which.
- yikiad, on 11/19/2008, -4/+10Rumor is that it will be like $60-80.
- Dubbsacc, on 11/19/2008, -8/+14@Anders
First of all, you don't really need Ultimate
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/com ...
Second, Vista Ultimate is only $169.99 if you aren't a retard and actually know how to use the Internet for finding your products.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8 ...
Lastly, you really only need Home Premium. For some reason it's not on NewEgg, which is strange, but I found it at Fry's, TigerDirect and other online retailers probably have the same pricing of $109.99.
http://shop1.frys.com/product/5119696;jsessionid=f ... - designev, on 11/20/2008, -1/+7A lot of people have used the Finder for years and deal with its quirks and annoyances daily.
A rewrite in Cocoa is surely an opportunity to clean it up a little.
I don't need new features, but if the Finder behaves a little nicer and performs a little better, then great! - hellomrwu, on 11/20/2008, -0/+6Mac OSX Thunder Cats, hooo!!!
- lochness, on 11/20/2008, -0/+5AWESOME !!!
I can't WAIT for the probably "over 300 new features".
148 tweaked fonts
42 altered window layouts..
and about 3-4 things that ARE features that mean something. - inactive, on 11/20/2008, -0/+5They technically only have Cougar, Clouded Leopard, and Bornean Clouded Leopard left.
TERRIBLE names, those last two, although they already used two names that aren't technically big cats... (Panther is from the genus of the roaring cats, and Puma is the genus name of the cougar.)
Extending to other cats they could do Mac OS X Lynx, or Mac OS X Smilodon.
Smilodon would be lulzy. - superkendall, on 11/19/2008, -2/+7Leopard is faster (on the same hardware), and many things work better. Update if you can.
- inactive, on 11/20/2008, -0/+5And I take it your a Mac genius who has tested Snow leopard against Windows 7 then?
- SFBWork, on 11/19/2008, -1/+6What's with snverhallen and cukkooo having the same exact comments on this?
- superkendall, on 11/20/2008, -2/+7Actually they put a lot of serious and useful frameworks into 10.5, like CoreData and CoreAnimation. On top of that they also solidified the kernel API to make life easier for device driver writers.
10.5 was far from a useless release, it made more sense from a practical standpoint than Tiger. - inactive, on 11/20/2008, -0/+510.7 Ocelot !!
- kevin52094, on 11/20/2008, -2/+7intellimouse, why do you keep dissing all the mac users? I use Vista I'm fine with it. They use OSX, they are fine with it. I assume you use Vista and are fine with it. Live and Let Live.
- luddep, on 11/19/2008, -7/+12You do realize that a Cocoa Finder won't mean any new functionality to you? I don't get why people get so excited about it.
- inactive, on 11/20/2008, -1/+6Your not.
Since 10.5 came out we have had 5 FREE updates which could be considered Service Packs - that's why we are on 10.5.5.
Tiger even goes all the way to 10.4.11 - its one louder. - BossKey, on 11/20/2008, -2/+6Same here, I have uptimes as long as I like. However, Snow Leopard is less about stability (it's already there) and more about optimization.
- Rockkybox, on 11/19/2008, -2/+6Can everyone please report this dick
- MtheoryX, on 11/19/2008, -1/+5I've heard (from *very* reliable sources) no PPC support, period.
- InfiniteNothing, on 11/19/2008, -2/+6I have a 1GHz G4 and Leopard is much much faster. It also has time machine and other cool stuff.
- lowdose, on 11/20/2008, -1/+5House cats?
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