macrumors.com — Apple's Director of Engineering of Unix Technologies Jordan Hubbard spoke at LISA '08 last week. LISA (or Large Installation System Administration Conference) is a technical conference targeted at engineers and system administrators. This year's conference invited Apple's Jordan Hubbard to speak ...
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kelmonNov 21, 2008
If there is an early release then I'll eat my hat. There's been no public demonstration of the new OS and, to my knowledge, only 2 betas released since June. This release needs much more testing than earlier releases since it is being sold on stability and performance, and that testing hasn't been done yet. I'm pretty certain that we haven't even seen a feature complete beta yet distributed to ADC members.
kelmonNov 21, 2008
If Snow Leopard is just as user friendly and stable as 10.4.11 then I wouldn't bother upgrading since you already have a good system. What I'm waiting for is confirmation that 10.6 will be much better than what I already have and therefore worth the cost and hassle of upgrading.I have 10.5 installed on an old PowerBook G4 Ti 1GHz and it seems fine relative to Tiger. Certainly Spotlight searches are much faster than they used to be.
kelmonNov 21, 2008
Speaking personally, my MacBook Pro locked up yesterday afternoon 10-minutes before I was due to start delivering a presentation. It doesn't happen often but Leopard has been the most problematic version of the Mac OS that I have used since 10.2.8 when I switched. Needless to say that I was less than impressed with the lock up and the time required to reboot (it took 2), restart Parallels and Keynote, made me late.Grrrrr....
kelmonNov 21, 2008
That's a fair question and one that is not easy to answer. However, you could say that you only should upgrade if the new version offers you features that you want, or applications that you want to run require it. I certainly won't criticise anyone who doesn't want to upgrade because they are happy with their existing system and don't see the value in the new versions.
chrisbarrFeb 8, 2009
I don't have that button
whoisjohnlaiAug 24, 2009
The Features in Mac OS X Snow leopard will revolutionize Mac Period, its gonna be awesomeRead my blog, with my thoughts on the snow leopard<a class="user" href="http://whoisjohnlai.com/blog/?p=96" rel="nofollow">http://whoisjohnlai.com/blog/?p=96</a>John