Snow Leopard Reviews are Out

Here's a short list of reviews that hit the web today!
Engadget
http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/
Walt Mossberg
http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20090826/apple-changes-leopards-spots/
Gizmodo
http://gizmodo.com/5346418/snow-leopard-review-lightened-and-enlightened

All in all good but not great!
But for $29 what do you expect?
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The reviews mention the upgrade taking 45mins , but can you also do a full install , with the $9.95 discounted version?

 

do these talk about gpu switching in bootcamp?

 

nope,but I like-

part hopefully more and more developers will use their new technologies!

 

btw,here is an idea- now the base 15" has 9400 videocard right?why not to try it's GPU drivers?

 

The word on the street is that yes you can use the upgrade disk to to a full install, and even to upgrade from tiger.
Walt Mossberg et al are all saying so, and promoting the idea so I guess it must be true.
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it will simply run a 9400m driver on a 9600m gt card, so it's not the best option.

 

I hope that's true. I guess we'll all find out soon enough.

 

The USA Today had a review in it also

 

So does snow leopard have native NTFS support?

 

I heard that it was supposed to but, on reading thru the apple SL site I didn't see it mentioned. They did mention that bootcamp now has HFS+ support though.
I guess its only a matter of time until someone round here gets their copy and can try it out.
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I just read that somebody with snow leopard , said that it did not write ntfs

 

they dont need to pay MS a license fee just to be able to write to NTFS when most people wont use it and 3rd party tools work fine...

 

lol, i was also going to say the same thing!!

 

What do you guys recommend for this? Use 3rd party applications to write to NTFS or just format all external drives with FAT32. I dont transfer single, big files often, so size limitation may not be an issue. Sorry for the OT question...

 

Most people use NTFS-3G and it works great, with the odd hiccup.

 

I'm a Mac/Windows user so I have to use NTFS-3G.

Anyway, I'm kind of disappointed with Quicktime X. I'm not sure why Apple took features away from the player. Doesn't make sense to me. I think I might stick with quicktime pro

 

If I read it correctly, you can still install Quicktime Pro (from the SL disc or under "Utilities". Apparently, it is very easy to miss this during the installation.

From the engadget review:

 

ntfs 3g works great but the transfer speeds are slow. Paragon NTFS isnt free but thats what i use and its like writing to a native hfs volume.

 

Thanks guys! I'll try NTFS3G or Paragon NTFS to be able to write to NTFS drives. How about time machine? Should I create a partition on my 1TB external (50/50 with NTFS) dedicated for backups? Is that a common practice?

 

No no time machine should partition should be formatted in HFS+ because you wont be able to back up time machine on a windows anyways. the only drive that will be needing the time machine backup will be your mac os x so format it to HFS. What I do on my External 2 partitions is 500Gigs for Time Machine, 1300Gigs for for just regular backups, both of them hfS+ since i have paragon NTFS on mac side, and Mac drive on widnows side, althought mac drive will become obsolete when SL hits the stores tmrw.

 

I use a 2.5" hdd for my time machine , I am glad i did i got a Trogan infections , a download pretending to be adobe flash player, I managed to do a full restore by booting from my leopard disk and selecting restore and date in the time machine and it wiped my drive and resored it to the day before i got the infection , perfect.

 

May be I'll do this:

1. keep the 1 TB external (3.5") as NTFS, since it's connected to the Win box and used for Win backups. If I need to transfer any files to Mac, it reads it fine anyways. I can use Paragon to "write" to this drive for single file transfers, etc.

2. Format the 500Gb external (2.5") as HFS+ and use it for Time Machine and individual file backups. I think Paragon has a tool to read this under Windows if necessary.

Sorry for the naive questions, and thanks for your time!