Snow Leopard ?!

Hi guys, I was about to get a macbook and a friend of mine told me that I should wait for Snow Leopard to come out. Is it supposed to be really superior to the Leopard? Is it worth the wait ? It's just the refresh of the OS, not the notebooks models? MB and MBP are still pretty new to refresh em i guess...
What do you guys think bout that?
Peace!

 

You can always upgrade

 

No one knows if they are even going to charge for it, or if it will be full price, it's not really adding any new features, just cleaning up under the hood.

 

There may be hardware refreshes when Snow Leopard comes out, but I doubt it will be anything major. Probably just HD capacity bumps and CPU bumps thats all. As I always advise people, if you need the system now, then buy it now. If you can afford to wait a couple more months, wait and see. In the tech world, there is always something new right around the corner .

 

As always, best to buy if you need it now ---- Wait if you think a refresh will matter to you.

All the new "Unibody" Mac's will support fully Snow Leopard along with the multi core use that Snow Leopard will allow.

Unless Apple has some tricks up their sleeves (nobody knows), rumors indicate that nothing huge (hardware wise) will be released by June/July with the new OS

 

I don't believe there are anymore speed bumps left for mobile CPU's in the intel roadmap.

I think the next lot of intel cpu's are the quad core nehalem derivatives and if they are on schedule they should be released the same time around as Snow Leopard...

 

Wrong. We got one more P, one more T, one more quad and one more extreme along the way.

 

Snow Leopard = rumored to be released this June (Jobs' stated, when Snow Leopard was announced, "about a year").

Calpella (next Centrino platform) = on track for H2 of 2009, so anywhere from July-on. I'm assuming a mid/late Fall launch.

So, they're not exactly on the same release time frame, and Apple rarely upgrades as soon as a new platform is out. I expect to see Nehalem-based chips in Apple units by late 2009/early 2010.

 

Is snow leopard going to be 64bit?

 

The thing with apple is any upgrade is easy and quick...unlike windows. So you should be good to go.

 

Yes, Snow Leopard is going to be 64-bit.

 

Im stuck aswell I really want to make my purchase and yeah I can wait its just I'm not good at waiting ><

 

Yeah... i'm awful at waiting too... Anyway I don't care that much about the OS, i care more about the notebook itself. I still have Tiger on my iMac and it's great, nothing's going wrong.

 

I think you meant to say that there aren't any more speed increases left for the mobile Core architecture specifically.

Btw, another user pointed out that its not true.

Thats what I am holding out for too...32nm and 4 threads! Combine that with OpenCL and Grand Central found in Snow Leopard and you have a recipe for a huge performance increase.

 

I'd put it this way, if you can't wait, buy it now. Look on the bright side, at least osx isn't windows expensive.

Btw, if people are asking if snow leopard is 64 bit or not, does that mean the current leopard is 32 bit?

 

Nope, I thought Leopard was 64-Bit also...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id5vpy2CapY&feature=channel_page

 

Well guys i found this http://www.apple.com/macosx/technology/64bit.html

 

Ok, thanks for the link! I thought it was 64-bit, but wasn't completely sure...

 

Snow Leopard is going to be awesome!

Btw, what's it like to code for a mac? Does apple make it any easier than MS do with their OS?

I can't code btw, i'm just wondering that should I wish to code something for a mac, is it easier than attempting the same thing on windows?

 

Microsoft is hinting something.
http://i.gizmodo.com/5156662/why-is-there-a-snow-kitty-on-microsofts-live-search

 

A not so subtle dig from MS there

"Snow Leopards can't roar, but there are groups who will speak up for them"