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    v10.6 Let it Snow.

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by AirSinner, Aug 19, 2009.

  1. AirSinner

    AirSinner Notebook Evangelist

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    Well I spent several hours with Snow today and well it looks like its going to be a very promising OS. Decent changes are.

    Expose
    General Installation " Custom Options"
    QuickTime.
    Apple Driver support (Printing)
    Using Rosetta.
    64bit Architecture.

    Lots more! Well I'm not going to spoil anything else but it seems pretty decent.
     
    AirSinner, Aug 19, 2009
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  2. Tinderbox (UK)

    Tinderbox (UK) BAKED BEAN KING

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    Is that all, nothing special then.
     
    Tinderbox (UK), Aug 19, 2009
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  3. ATC

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    I wonder if the performance changes are noticeable from Leopard.
     
    ATC, Aug 19, 2009
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  4. AppleUsr

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    I have rosetta stone on my windows machine but not my mac. is there some problem with it on macs?
     
    AppleUsr, Aug 19, 2009
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  5. SP Forsythe

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    I think perhaps he is referring to Rosetta, Apple's marketing name for a PowerPC emulator that ships with the Intel version of Mac OS X.
     
    SP Forsythe, Aug 19, 2009
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    You can't dangle this in front of us and not elaborate! :)
     
    Brain191, Aug 19, 2009
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  7. Khris

    Khris Yes I am better than you!

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    Cosmetically there isn't much that's changed from 10.5 to 10.6. Most of the improvements are under the hood and will affect performance more than anything.

    I've been using it for almost a week now and as mentioned, there are a few things like Expose that have been refined, but otherwise nothing revolutionary.
     
    Khris, Aug 19, 2009
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  8. MKang25

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    what about bootcamp
     
    MKang25, Aug 19, 2009
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  9. Seshan

    Seshan Rawrrr!

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    There is nothing to spoil.
    http://www.apple.com/macosx/refinements/enhancements-refinements.html
     
    Seshan, Aug 19, 2009
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  10. zambie

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    what are the improvements in "expose" ? Are they more to do with performance and greater "fluidity of the expose experience" / are there UI improvements?
    One thing I personally dislike about expose is a situation where for instance I have for windows of Safari (same sized) and I do an expose on Safari - they all line up side by side.... and it looks so wierd... and slightly unintelligent ... cluttering up the mid section of the page instead of intelligently distributing the windows across the screen (i know the solution to this problem is to just resize one of the windows manually ... but it's an unintelligent thing to do) ...
     
    zambie, Aug 20, 2009
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  11. HLdan

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    I wonder how many people here are actual developers that were given a copy of SL directly from Apple? Day by day I notice that people are freely talking about using SL as if they got it elsewhere. :p
     
    HLdan, Aug 20, 2009
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  12. lixuelai

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    I haven't tried it but IMO it is not that much more Leopard is looking at the Apple site and various forum discussions. I will wait for all kinks to be worked out before upgrading. I am more than happy with 10.5.8.
     
    lixuelai, Aug 20, 2009
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  13. brianj320

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    say it aint so! lol :D
     
    brianj320, Aug 20, 2009
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  14. Luke1708

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    so we're doomed!!!!no 9400m on windows. our laptops will burn!!!!I HATE YOU APPLE!!!!
     
    Luke1708, Aug 20, 2009
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  15. Tinderbox (UK)

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    If i was not getting the discounted snow leopard price, I would not buy it knowing you still cannot use the 9400m in bootcamp.
     
    Tinderbox (UK), Aug 20, 2009
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  16. Xirurg

    Xirurg ORLY???

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    how do you know that?
     
    Xirurg, Aug 20, 2009
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  17. Luke1708

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    Luke1708, Aug 20, 2009
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