Official Mac OS X Snow Leopard thread of Shipping 8/28!!

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A lot of you are worrying too much. That shit will be at your door tomorrow. I remember last time they did this, it was the same situation. It's either already out and the site is late, or they're going to overnight it tonight.
 
Liu Kang Baking A Pie said:
A lot of you are worrying too much. That shit will be at your door tomorrow. I remember last time they did this, it was the same situation. It's either already out and the site is late, or they're going to overnight it tonight.
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I hope so. Would love to spend the weekend tinkering with Snow Leopard
 
celebi23 said:
I hope so. Would love to spend the weekend tinkering with Snow Leopard
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seriously, you'll be done tinkering in about an hour or two. there's not much user level stuff to mess around with.

dock expose

exchange support in the Mail/ iCal/ Address book apps.

quicktime X (new window chrome and trimming/ export commands)

automatic text correction and formatting. (write some emails and see the words get corrected!)

video previews in the thumbail icons. icon size changes on the fly


one hour in and you'll go, "ok, I've seen the new stuff".

it's still a great release just for the speed increases and refinements, but it's not something that you'll need to play around with for long to see the changes.
 
RevoDS said:
You're actually lucky it's even being prepared. I probably don't have any chance of it coming my way tomorrow unless the site is way out of date.

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This is what mine says as well.

The main reason I'm worried about it is no one will be home and I need to make sure I catch the window of opportunity to sign for it online before it comes.

EDIT: Now it says 'prepared for shipment'
 
megashock5 said:
This is what mine says as well.

The main reason I'm worried about it is no one will be home and I need to make sure I catch the window of opportunity to sign for it online before it comes.
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What do they usually ship with? You can usually leave a note to leave the package unless you're afraid it will get taken.

Also, it's too early to worry, sometimes it takes until the next day to update. If it hasn't changed by tomorrow morning you might not be getting it but can't really tell until then.
 
LCfiner said:
it's still a great release just for the speed increases and refinements, but it's not something that you'll need to play around with for long to see the changes.
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personally i haven't seen any speed increase outside of the VASTLY improved drawing speed of stacks. well, and 64-bit Safari, but i'm a firefox kinda guy.

and for fun here's a CPU/GPU opencl benchmark for SL - http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=181590

ATI has made really crapy drivers for 10.6...
 
Phobophile said:
Meh, it's not like my X1600 is even OpenCL compliant.
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For Open CL an ATI 4870 is 15x slower than a gtx285. That's an absurd rape of biblical proportions.
 
scorcho said:
For Open CL an ATI 4870 is 15x slower than a gtx285. That's an absurd rape of biblical proportions.
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You'll probably need this:
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scorcho said:
personally i haven't seen any speed increase outside of the VASTLY improved drawing speed of stacks. well, and 64-bit Safari, but i'm a firefox kinda guy.

and for fun here's a CPU/GPU opencl benchmark for SL - http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=181590

ATI has made really crapy drivers for 10.6...
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there are speed increases in several common tasks.

here's a nice list

http://www.macworld.com/article/142425/2009/08/snow_leopard_performance.html?lsrc=top_1
 
giga said:
Siracusa's usual exhaustive internal review should be up on Ars Monday.
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I should set aside a couple hours to read that thing. :lol

considering that this update is all about under the hood changes, his style of review should be even more pertinent this time around.

I wonder if he'll spend 4 pages talking about the terminal the new monospaced fonts
 
giga said:
Siracusa's usual exhaustive internal review should be up on Ars Monday.
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When Leopard came out I read the whole thing and then read all his reviews for all the previous versions. Didn't get much done that day :lol
 
Tranced Shadow said:
Argh, I'm feeling nervous. This is my first time upgrading OS X, but according to that Wiki, quite a few of my programs have difficulties!



http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/
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Half the apps I use aren't even on there.

But frankly, if you're concerned, then just wait a bit. Those developers will eventually sort it all out.

I'm concerened about fink implementation and compiling - do I need to reinstall fink entirely and all my packages? Do I need to get a new XCode (I'm on 3.1.3). I asked a couple times, but to no avail.
 
Can anyone with Snow Leopard confirm whether Quicktime 7 Pro is still installed in the Utilities folder after you installed Snow Leopard?
 
ckohler said:
Can anyone with Snow Leopard confirm whether Quicktime 7 Pro is still installed in the Utilities folder after you installed Snow Leopard?
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Optional install. Just pop in the install disc to install it.
 
ckohler said:
Can anyone with Snow Leopard confirm whether Quicktime 7 Pro is still installed in the Utilities folder after you installed Snow Leopard?
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Yes. Straight upgrade from Leopard (didn't change any options) and mine is in Utilities.
 
ckohler said:
Can anyone with Snow Leopard confirm whether Quicktime 7 Pro is still installed in the Utilities folder after you installed Snow Leopard?
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Yeah, Quicktime X is under Apps, and Quicktime 7 Pro is in utilities.
 
Preview isn't displaying some PDF's properly. Colour's are all jacked up.

Preview:
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Acrobat:
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Put that on the list for 10.6.1
 
Burger said:
Preview isn't displaying some PDF's properly. Colour's are all jacked up.

Preview:
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Acrobat:
15wf1j4.jpg


Put that on the list for 10.6.1
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Guessing you have the full retail version, it being the 28th in NZ.
 
Gianny said:
I would like to build a hackingtosh of dual boot...how do I proceed and how do I obtain the copy of osx 10.5?
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Buy it at a store, then start researching on how to create a boot cd to begin.
 
Gianny said:
I would like to build a hackingtosh of dual boot...how do I proceed and how do I obtain the copy of osx 10.5?
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I hope you read everything you need to. If you don't have the right motherboard/processor/video card you're not going to be able to do anything. Apple should sell 10.5.6 retail discs on their site. Or you could wait until people make some easy packages for 10.6 and just order Snow Leopard then.

Remember that 2 HDDs is the easiest way to do this. Don't deal with partitions.
 
celebi23 said:
Damn, that's a pretty serious bug
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I just had a look at about 50 PDF's exported from a variety of problems and didn't see the problem replicated. Must be some weird colour flag that is incompatible, but the problem wasn't there in Leopard. Nothing too serious.

Anyways, install time was about 45 minutes on a 2.4ghz iMac, and went rather smoothly. I can't say how fast it is as I upgraded from 2 - 4gb of RAM yesterday. I can now run Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign all at the same time without issues though, but that is definitely thanks to the memory.
 
Firestorm said:
I hope you read everything you need to. If you don't have the right motherboard/processor/video card you're not going to be able to do anything. Apple should sell 10.5.6 retail discs on their site. Or you could wait until people make some easy packages for 10.6 and just order Snow Leopard then.

Remember that 2 HDDs is the easiest way to do this. Don't deal with partitions.
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No need. The Snow Leopard upgrade disc is a full retail disc. You can do a full install without having anything already installed.

http://lifehacker.com/5347086/confirmed-29-snow-leopard-installs-whether-or-not-youve-got-leopard
 
Burger said:
Slower ? What benchmarks are you looking at ? The ones I'm looking at indicate that it's faster than Leopard in almost every regard.
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I'm looking at benchmarks that say "(Shorter bars indicate better performance)"
 
skrew said:
No need. The Snow Leopard upgrade disc is a full retail disc. You can do a full install without having anything already installed.

http://lifehacker.com/5347086/confirmed-29-snow-leopard-installs-whether-or-not-youve-got-leopard
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I was just saying to grab that in case nobody had figured out 10.6 on whatever motherboard he was getting. The one I'm using for example works perfectly in 10.5.8, but I'd rather not deal with getting it to work in Snow Leopard until someone with much more knowledge than me does it and gets a tutorial up.
Gianny said:
2 HDD's on a laptop for a hackingtosh? I though I could install it on any laptop. Oh well...
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I was talking about desktops. What laptop? You can dual boot on the same partition, it's just more annoying to set up I believe.
 
10.6 actually isn't that hard to get up with a 'vanilla' install. i actually found it easier than 10.5.x, so long as you have a spare partition to install into from your current working system.
 
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