In the meantime here is a report of Dan Frakes' installing Snow Leopard for your edification and enjoyment...
Mac Snow Leopard Install Ping!
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The FedEx driver is a Mac user. He said his truck is full of upgrade paclages!
pretty lengthy... but, worth the read I think.
In the meantime here is a report of Dan Frakes' installing Snow Leopard for your edification and enjoyment...
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
I got mine today too. I’m doing the install right now. Got another 10 minutes to go says the progress bar.
Got it this morning from the Apple store. Was there right as the store opened, already about 20 people there most getting Snow Leopard.
Install took 45 minutes. Got back 10GB of space. So far so good other than it breaking my Safari Adblocker which has put me back on Firefox for now. Plug ins appear to be the only thing breaking for me, but I haven’t tried much. My regular use apps are all good.
Snow Leopard is nice stuff. I think the performance gains have been slightly exaggerated, but on the whole it feels like Leopard with extra RAM.
The Expose changes are welcome. Not just Dock Expose, but the way in which Expose functions has been changed around. For example, if you have a minimized window, it now appears in Expose. Very handy.
Snow Leopard is a nice basis for OS X to advance into the next decade. 10.7 should be extraordinary. In the meantime, Apple, can we get a 64-bit iTunes 9 please?
Ever heard of a ‘hackintosh’?
Buy specific motherboard and processor combinations, and build your own high end ‘hackintosh’ for less than $800.
While I do love the elegance of the MacOS; and have no problem purchasing the software, the hardware is just ‘over-priced’ for what you get.
Oh, by the way, Swordmaker. Snow Leopard changes how OS X computes disk space. It abandons the base 2 counting (1,024MB = 1GB) for base 10 counting (1,000MB = 1GB) in line with the addition of kibibytes, mebibytes, and gibibytes into the tech lexicon.
This is partially why Snow Leopard frees up hard drive space. It changes how the space is counted.
My copy will be delivered Monday. Can’t wait!
Took about an hour... then, the first boot seemed to take forever, thought something was SNAFUed - but all is well.
Swordmaker, I just want to take this opportunity to thank you for all your hard work on the Mac ping list! You’re always ready to help and never laugh at my stupidity. Thanks for this. I think I’ll wait about a week (but oh I wanna get it today!!!) just to see how it works out for everyone.
When/if I install snow leopard, will I need to repartition my hard drive to run Windows? I know it sucks, but one application I use for work doesn't work on Mac. It was a cost-saving thing.
lol bro
I am sad I can’t install it, I have a G5. :(