Guest mrcopyandpaste Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 Is this worth getting? Doesn't seem like much of a step up to me... I realise it's not out yet but has anyone seen anything online or otherwise that says it might be good? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest assegai Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 It's only 30 bucks. Totally worth it. http://www.apple.com/macosx/refinements/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest idrn Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 is it a completely clean install or can i upgrade over tiger and not have to install everything again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest assegai Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 I believe it's either or. You can just upgrade or you can format. Also.. The installation process is up to 50 percent faster and more reliable than ever. It checks all your applications and sets aside programs known to be incompatible. And in case a power outage interrupts your installation, it can start again without any danger to your data. Snow Leopard takes up less than half the disk space of the previous version, freeing about 7GB for you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kichiguy Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 i saw a cub crossing a frozen lake a few years ago. cant seem to remember what it looked like though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 I believe it's either or. You can just upgrade or you can format. Also.. The installation process is up to 50 percent faster and more reliable than ever. It checks all your applications and sets aside programs known to be incompatible. And in case a power outage interrupts your installation, it can start again without any danger to your data. Snow Leopard takes up less than half the disk space of the previous version, freeing about 7GB for you sweet - shall be getting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acid1 Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 Well if you don't know what 64 bit is, don't care what your graphics card is doing with this spare cycles, don't use an exchange server, don't care about 6 more gigs of free space, don't mind a large footprint, don't want quicktime pro features for free, and finally if you think 30 bucks is a lot of money... then yeah.. its not worth it... spend your 30 bucks on half a video game instead.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaosmachine Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 They're cleaning out all the pre-intel legacy crap, so everything should be smaller and faster, now that it's optimized for a single platform. At the least, it's a significant performance upgrade for only $30. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mrcopyandpaste Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 Well if you don't know what 64 bit is, don't care what your graphics card is doing with this spare cycles, don't use an exchange server, don't care about 6 more gigs of free space, don't mind a large footprint, don't want quicktime pro features for free, and finally if you think 30 bucks is a lot of money... then yeah.. its not worth it... spend your 30 bucks on half a video game instead.. sorry YOU FUCKING NERD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest idrn Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 nerds - they can impart so much valuable knowledge yet only through the medium of scoffery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 Well if you don't know what 64 bit is, don't care what your graphics card is doing with this spare cycles, don't use an exchange server, don't care about 6 more gigs of free space, don't mind a large footprint, don't want quicktime pro features for free, and finally if you think 30 bucks is a lot of money... then yeah.. its not worth it... spend your 30 bucks on half a video game instead.. sorry YOU FUCKING NERD lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Braintree Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 Yeah, I'll probably upgrade. I hope it doesn't fuck with Logic 8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyrex Posted August 27, 2009 Share Posted August 27, 2009 Yeah, I'll probably upgrade. I hope it doesn't fuck with Logic 8. You might want to look at this: http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyrex Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 Also, if you're a Tiger user (10.4), you'll be pleased to know that you can upgrade to the full version of Snow Leopard (10.6) for the same 25-29 dollars! Apple does offer a "full" upgrade from Tiger to Snow Leopard for 169, but does admit that you can upgrade fully with just the "upgrade" disc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest idrn Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 yeah, £25 and delivered to my door in 3 days. bargain! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest assegai Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 I wasn't here to sign for it and fedex took it home. I hate that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremymacgregor87 Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 I installed it last night. It's kinda.. the same Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaosmachine Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 817f2d9cfb56885d6e8e3fd99855b691 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xyrofen Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 I got it and installed. It opened up 12 gigabytes on my hard disk and runs some stuff more smoothly. It's easily worth it, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremymacgregor87 Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 dock looks nicer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaosmachine Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 I like it. New Expose is nice. Dock tweaks are nice. Too bad the default scrollbars are still ugly. They should have changed them to the style used in iTunes. Ooh, one of the new backgrounds is a copy of Nighthawks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest assegai Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 Computer automatically boots to 32, what does this mean? http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10320314-37.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaosmachine Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 Computer automatically boots to 32, what does this mean? http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10320314-37.html It works like this, Snow Leopard is a 64-bit OS, and almost all of its applications are 64-bit, and almost if not all of its frameworks for developers to tap into are 64-bit. There is a part of the operating system called a kernel, it can run in either 32-bit mode or 64-bit mode. There is a lot of code that taps into the kernel for low level device functions, these bits of code are called kernel extensions or kexts, they are written both by Apple and by third parties. 32-bit kexts do not play well with a 64-bit kernel, and as almost all kexts are 32-bit because pre Snow Leopard the kernel was 32-bit, this would cause a huge amount of headache to end users to default to a 64-bit kernel. and most kexts will not see a performance improvement by running in a 64-bit mode. What are the advantages of running a 64-bit kernel? The way Mac OS X is designed to take advantage of more then 4GB memory pre 64-bit, causes it to swap address for memory above the 4GB barrier, which in turn makes each memory operation slightly slower. If you have more then 4GB of memory in your computer, running a 64-bit kernel will speed up memory read/write some, but will cause more compatibility issues with kexts. Thats it. If you have less then 4GB of memory a 64-bit kernel will have no advantage what so ever, and above that you will see some performance improvement when more then 4GB of memory is consistently being used. Obviously as no mac ships with more then 4GB of memory by default, and only more recent macs (excluding xserves and Mac Pros) can even accept more then 4GB of memory, and as it will take third parties some time to write 64-bit kexts, it makes absolutely 100% sense to default to a 32-bit kernel at this point. or this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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