Mac OSX.6 Snow Leopard Ping!
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Somewhat on topic, I used a Vista machine for the first time the other day. What a mess. It was unbelievably slow, just positively painful to use. I tried to set up separate configurations for home and office use, and could barely accomplish the task despite my 30+ years of computing experience. I am so glad we ditched all Microsoft products four years ago.
I think Apple will soon be in a position to mount a real challenge to Microsoft, not just in the niche markets, but for general purpose computing too.
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I'm not going to rush out and get Snow Leopard -- I'm typically not an early adopter, rather I like waiting until the first round of fixes shows up. That's truer for Microsoft (I waited years to switch from 2000 to XP), but it holds for Apple too. Nothing is perfect, even if the marketing department says so. ;-)
That said, it does look pretty cool.
My PPC MacMini was already converted to a metal install of Fedora 10 Linux, so I'm not worried about the back-incompatibility. And my older iMac etc. PPC boxes are retired now anyway...
Well, I hope you guys get your rocks off on this one then. If it’s “perfectly optimized” you should never see another release.
Even if it RTM’d today, you won’t see it till September.
1) I'm unable to predict or pre-set the size and shape of new windows (most noticeably in Safari). [If I listen to Rush on WABC and size the window to fit, new windows seem to open at that reduced size.] I know -- probably "cockpit error" and you folks can tell me what I'm doing wrong...
2) Sometimes System Preferences seems to get in a mode where it is difficult to open a specific preference from the VIEW menu -- without opening a window with them all, and then choosing an icon. This is most noticeable when trying to open Network Preferences from the Airport pull-down menu. Quitting SysPrefs and restarting it seems to fix it...
Aside from those two minor gripes, Leopard is an absolute joy to use -- so I'll be in no big rush to move to Snow leopard...
Guess it works for me. I've already pre-ordered my Snow Leopard "family pack" from Amazon.
So, it’s Sunday night on the Mac thread, with the required sniping going on, so no one but you will notice my off-topic question.
Yesterday, I bought an iPod Classic. I think the only difference between it and an iPhone is ATT is still out about a $100.00 a month phone charges from me. But I paid a lot for it! but it was on sale (whoopee, $10.00 off!). It has 120GB...yes, one hundred twenty GB! Heck, this MacBook Pro only has 160GB! Do I need to have buyers remorse? If so, can I watch the 2 episodes of Dr. Who I just dragged and dropped on it first? And I haven’t tried putting any music that was not bought at the iTunes store on it yet, is that gonna be a problem?
And I need Snow Leopard because...? (I’m still mad that I can’t run Panther on this MBP!)
Isn’t the snow leopard extinct...... or at least endangered?
How cheap is it?