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Snow-Leopard, anyone?

post #1 of 41
8/29/09 at 5:29pm
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At risk of raising the hackles of the anti-mac (and anti-pc) brigades, I was wondering if anybody else had gone and got themselves Snow Leopard yet?

I have, and am pretty happy it's money well spent. Smaller footprint than Leopard, seems to run faster as well, plus a few cosmetic changes to remind you you've actually paid for something!

Anybody else with any impressions?
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post #2 of 41
8/29/09 at 5:45pm
http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f46/snow-leopard-442403/
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post #3 of 41
8/29/09 at 5:51pm
I'm a bit hesitant to buy and install Snow Leopard after reading a few reviews. Most agree that the OS is both zippier and smaller in terms of space, but some warn that non-major, "hack-like" applications won't run without major updating. I don't think there's anyway of knowing ahead of time which applications will be compatible with Snow Leopard, and which I'll inevitably have to uninstall to await further updating.
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post #4 of 41
8/29/09 at 6:05pm
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There's a compatability wiki at Snow Leopard Compatibility: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Compatibility List (the guy in the apple store pointed me to it) that could allay some of your fears?
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post #5 of 41
8/29/09 at 6:48pm
Day 2 and I still like it the only thing it broke on mine was istumbler it is snappier and my
mail seems to work better but it does run a few degrees warmer.
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post #6 of 41
8/29/09 at 7:09pm
Dont think it works with Hackintoshes yet

Else id be all over it
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post #7 of 41
8/29/09 at 7:34pm
I pre-ordered from Amazon. Should be here on 9/3. I also purchased iLife '09, iWork '09, and a 7200 rpm 320 gb drive. Going to install everything fresh at once
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post #8 of 41
8/29/09 at 8:42pm
Just installed it last night. There is definitely a noticeable speed improvement. Just feels snappier. Plus, after install I got back 30GB of disk space!!!!
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post #9 of 41
8/29/09 at 11:54pm
I'm running it... they fixed most of my major interface gripes about 10.5. For example, they made stacks usable (by adding folders and scrollability) and allow me to specifically disable 3-finger pad gestures (three-fingers-downward is "page down", while 2-finger is scroll down. I sometimes accidentally touch the pad with three fingers all the time, forcing me to scroll back up the page) while leaving the useful 2 and 4-finger ones. Also, zippier sleep/shutdown/startup.
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post #10 of 41
8/30/09 at 4:40am
My wife and i will get the family package near Christmas, which I also assume, will be a great time to upgrade because 0.1 point releases!
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post #11 of 41
8/30/09 at 5:16am
I bought a Macbook pro today and got snow for free. I have NO IDEA what the differences are but I upgraded it since Snow Leopard was free...anyone know what cool things I should do with the mac? This is my first.
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post #12 of 41
8/30/09 at 5:41am
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I'd just start playing with it...

Plus, this gives some good ideas of things to play with...
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post #13 of 41
8/30/09 at 6:11am
cool....what is a good audio player? I really love foobar to do all my stuff like flac. Anything similar?
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post #14 of 41
8/30/09 at 6:27am
Updated yesterday, and got myself 14GB back General impressions are actually very good, except I had to restore because magnifique ****ed my MacBook up...woops. But generally it is quicker, everything just seems to flow more smoothly. It's definitely leaving me impressed
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post #15 of 41
8/30/09 at 11:03am
Noticed Time Machine backups are a lot faster what ever it was doing before it is doing
in half the time now since it can not go faster do to my g limitation so people with newer
n notebooks should really see an improvement.
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