when some enterprising people get this working on Dell and HP laptops, i'll be all over it. i'm not in a position to buy a high end laptop right now.
I assume people have been trying it with the betas, and probably will with the release getting handed out to developers today. The smaller hard drive footprint and better efficiency and speed will be big plusses for netbook hackintoshes.
Windows isn't going anywhere, OS X isn't going anywhere, Linux isn't going anywhere. They all will co-exist just fine in the way they have for years. How much will it cost Tiger owners to get 10.6? Probably $129.
i think its just 29$.
They aren't going to have 2 disks at retail. The upgrade price for a machine bought between now and when SL is released is 9$.
By this it appears that you're concerned that you won't be able to use your G4 or G5 based Mac anymore come September when Snow Leopard is released.
Rest assured, those computers will not magically stop working on that day. (On the other hand, my G5 iMac died several months ago, apparently due to exploding capacitors, but that's another story...) And all the same apps that ran on them before will still run on them after.
If you're concerned about the end of security support, your fears are also unfounded. Note that Apple is still actively releasing security updates for Tiger.
If you're just concerned about the fact that new OSes are not being released for PowerPC-based Macs, well, all I can say is, this shouldn't be coming as a surprise: We've heard for quite some time now that the Snow Leopard betas would only run on Intel-based systems.
So, with the new Dock Expose, will the traditional action menu be no more? In the demo they said you active Dock Expose by clicking on an icon in the Dock and holding the click. Currently, that does the same as a right click or a control-click.
They aren't going to have 2 disks at retail. The upgrade price for a machine bought between now and when SL is released is 9$.
EDIT: OH SHIT ITS NOT! WTF!
EDIT: Yes it is! From the Apple Press Release on Snow Leopard:
"The Mac OS X Snow Leopard Up-To-Date upgrade package is available to all customers who purchased a qualifying new Mac system from Apple or an Apple Authorized Reseller between June 8, 2009 and the end of the program on December 26, 2009, for a product plus shipping and handling fee of $9.95 (US). Users must request their Up-To-Date upgrade within 90 days of purchase or by December 26, 2009, whichever comes first."
Nope.. For the first time in my life I will not be buying an OS from Apple, nor will my next hardware purchase be an Apple until the have Full BluRay support. I mean Full. The pro apps getter be able to author BluRay, I better be able to play it and iDVD better have that functioning added too. To have to boot into Windows to run a BluRay is absolutely Pathetic Apple. It's very possible my next machine will be a PC. At least MS tries to support STANDARD technologies.
me too...and what the hell happen to final cut studio 3......
Very impressive all round. Apple are such a deft, coherent and classy company it is hard not to be impressed I'd say. What a contrast with that malodorous dinosaur lumbering round up the coast, loudly breaking wind as they brutishly try to stamp on anything that moves.
My iBook G4 with Tiger is 4 years old. It would have been nice to get Snow Leopard for it, but I can understand why it won't be available, given that the PowerPC part of the market must be around 10% or less now, and many of them will be looking to upgrade in the near future anyway. It might be worse for PowerMac owners, who might have bought for longevity.
Instead I will look at buying a new Mac come 10.6.2, but what shall I get?! Let's see how the money situation is in January.
Nope.. For the first time in my life I will not be buying an OS from Apple, nor will my next hardware purchase be an Apple until the have Full BluRay support. I mean Full. The pro apps getter be able to author BluRay, I better be able to play it and iDVD better have that functioning added too. To have to boot into Windows to run a BluRay is absolutely Pathetic Apple. It's very possible my next machine will be a PC. At least MS tries to support STANDARD technologies.
I just can't believe the price of $29. All those guys at Mac Night Owl have been whining about not wanting to pay $129 for SL, I guess they were right. Still some great technologies coming in September and happily some always welcome refinements to the GUI, In some way SL might be looked at as version that sheds all the shackles of the Classic Mac OS and become the operating system that the Next Open Step promised. On a purely geek level SL will blow Win 7 out of the water, then again Win 7 is so bogged down with legacy code and bloat it is embarrassing.
Looking forward to Snow Leopard & iLife family pack. I think Apple has a habit of updating iLife at MacWorld in January, but they're not participating in that any more, so maybe new iLife with Snow Leopard release?
Apple is very smart. They don't want Macs out there that aren't displaying the ultimate in performance based upon their latest technology, so with pricing at $29, they'll get a very high portion of users to upgrade. The truth is, it probably would have been worth the $129, even though people (especially on here) would have groused about it.
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when some enterprising people get this working on Dell and HP laptops, i'll be all over it. i'm not in a position to buy a high end laptop right now.
I assume people have been trying it with the betas, and probably will with the release getting handed out to developers today. The smaller hard drive footprint and better efficiency and speed will be big plusses for netbook hackintoshes.
Windows isn't going anywhere, OS X isn't going anywhere, Linux isn't going anywhere. They all will co-exist just fine in the way they have for years. How much will it cost Tiger owners to get 10.6? Probably $129.
i think its just 29$.
They aren't going to have 2 disks at retail. The upgrade price for a machine bought between now and when SL is released is 9$.
EDIT: OH SHIT ITS NOT! WTF!
i think its just 29$.
They aren't going to have 2 disks at retail. The upgrade price for a machine bought between now and when SL is released is 9$.
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See above.
Tiger upgrade is in a box set for $169 with iLife '09 + iWorks '09.
G4/G5 no more?
By this it appears that you're concerned that you won't be able to use your G4 or G5 based Mac anymore come September when Snow Leopard is released.
Rest assured, those computers will not magically stop working on that day. (On the other hand, my G5 iMac died several months ago, apparently due to exploding capacitors, but that's another story...) And all the same apps that ran on them before will still run on them after.
If you're concerned about the end of security support, your fears are also unfounded. Note that Apple is still actively releasing security updates for Tiger.
If you're just concerned about the fact that new OSes are not being released for PowerPC-based Macs, well, all I can say is, this shouldn't be coming as a surprise: We've heard for quite some time now that the Snow Leopard betas would only run on Intel-based systems.
i think its just 29$.
They aren't going to have 2 disks at retail. The upgrade price for a machine bought between now and when SL is released is 9$.
EDIT: OH SHIT ITS NOT! WTF!
EDIT: Yes it is! From the Apple Press Release on Snow Leopard:
"The Mac OS X Snow Leopard Up-To-Date upgrade package is available to all customers who purchased a qualifying new Mac system from Apple or an Apple Authorized Reseller between June 8, 2009 and the end of the program on December 26, 2009, for a product plus shipping and handling fee of $9.95 (US). Users must request their Up-To-Date upgrade within 90 days of purchase or by December 26, 2009, whichever comes first."
Also part of Snow Leopard's page: Snow Leopard Up-to-date
Nope.. For the first time in my life I will not be buying an OS from Apple, nor will my next hardware purchase be an Apple until the have Full BluRay support. I mean Full. The pro apps getter be able to author BluRay, I better be able to play it and iDVD better have that functioning added too. To have to boot into Windows to run a BluRay is absolutely Pathetic Apple. It's very possible my next machine will be a PC. At least MS tries to support STANDARD technologies.
me too...and what the hell happen to final cut studio 3......
me too...and what the hell happen to final cut studio 3......
What do you mean what happened to it? It's not like anyone expected any word of it today.
Instead I will look at buying a new Mac come 10.6.2, but what shall I get?! Let's see how the money situation is in January.
Nope.. For the first time in my life I will not be buying an OS from Apple, nor will my next hardware purchase be an Apple until the have Full BluRay support. I mean Full. The pro apps getter be able to author BluRay, I better be able to play it and iDVD better have that functioning added too. To have to boot into Windows to run a BluRay is absolutely Pathetic Apple. It's very possible my next machine will be a PC. At least MS tries to support STANDARD technologies.
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Perfect!!! Best laugh of the day!
Windows 7 is being marketed as a major new OS and OS X 10.6 doesn't offer anything new or exciting for the consumer that you can see on the outside.
Developers please post the what is the performance difference between Leopard and Snow Leopard