[Mac users] Snow Leopard out this Friday!

[Rashkae]

Don't confuse optimization versus bug fixes.

You get bug fixes through Apple's software update.

To give you some perspective on optimization, Vista was and is bloatware. Lots of crap that drain the system resources. Windows 7 is an optimized release of Vista, and I'm sure M$ will charge you a pretty penny for it when it comes out. Definitely going to be WAYYYY more than the paltry S$48 that Apple's charging for Snow Leopard.

So you're basically paying for an optimized release of Leopard. At this day and age of obscene amount of bloatware, I'm just a sucker for optimized code

I'm getting the Windows 7 upgrade CD for free.

 

[adorable]

A stupid question, if upgrade the OS, will all program lost? meaning reinstall?

depend on which OS. :bsmilie:

For Windows, better do a clean install.

For Mac OS X, no problem. :thumbsup:

 

[drechohead]

I'm still happy with my 10.4.11..

 

[germ_boi]

I was happy with 10.5.7 until I went to Apple.com.sg and read about Snow Leopard.....

 

[adorable]

I was happy with 10.5.7 until I went to Apple.com.sg and read about Snow Leopard.....

I'm still happy with my 10.4.11..

do you want your Mac to run faster?

I believe no one want to run a 10.4 or 10.5 that is slower than 10.6 :lovegrin:

 

[germ_boi]

Which was why I ordered the family pack! haha. and by chance i have a friend who needs 4 licenses.

god of apple-verse must be shining on me

 

[ortega]

i'll wait for user reports on the speed increase and any incompatibilities b4 i upgrade

 

[S T U D I O 0603]

Ha, Vista is a OsX wannabe, a beautified Win ME; Win7 a beautified XP.
I'm amazed how Snow Leopard OS will take up less space than the previous OS. Having said that, I'm still with a XP desktop, Vista 17" & XP netbook...;( :nono:bo pian can't throw away all these machines.

Don't confuse optimization versus bug fixes.

You get bug fixes through Apple's software update.

To give you some perspective on optimization, Vista was and is bloatware. Lots of crap that drain the system resources. Windows 7 is an optimized release of Vista, and I'm sure M$ will charge you a pretty penny for it when it comes out. Definitely going to be WAYYYY more than the paltry S$48 that Apple's charging for Snow Leopard.

So you're basically paying for an optimized release of Leopard. At this day and age of obscene amount of bloatware, I'm just a sucker for optimized code

 

[Cheesecake]

waiting!!!! WOOOOOOOO!!!!

 

[Lightworkz]

Ha, Vista is a OsX wannabe, a beautified Win ME; Win7 a beautified XP.
I'm amazed how Snow Leopard OS will take up less space than the previous OS. Having said that, I'm still with a XP desktop, Vista 17" & XP netbook...;( :nono:bo pian can't throw away all these machines.

Apple could be partially using zfs (zettabyte file system) in Snow Leopard and hence the smaller footprint, later version of OS X will fully be in zfs.

 

[Gunbucker]

Apple could be partially using zfs (zettabyte file system) in Snow Leopard and hence the smaller footprint, later version of OS X will fully be in zfs.

Nope, no ZFS in this release. Probably for future releases.

 

[Lightworkz]

Nope, no ZFS in this release. Probably for future releases.

ZFS has been available as read-only in every leopard install, and as read-write for everyone via a developer beta. The big news is that Apple is much more transparent now about what they plan to do with it (boot support etc). The read-only portion in Leopard has been pretty well tested and is figured as solid.
It's great to see that ZFS is maturing on the mac.

/System/Library/Filesystems/zfs.fs
/System/Library/Extensions/zfs.readonly.kext
/usr/lib/libzfs.dylib
/usr/sbin/zfs
/usr/share/man/man8/zfs.8
/usr/share/man/man8/zfs.util.8

Probably just read_only support so we won't complain about getting at ZFS stuff from our old machines, etc.

 

[adorable]

Apple could be partially using zfs (zettabyte file system) in Snow Leopard and hence the smaller footprint, later version of OS X will fully be in zfs.

I thought small foot print is because no need to support PowerPC codes? Hence, all the PPC related codes all took out.

 

[Lightworkz]

I thought small foot print is because no need to support PowerPC codes? Hence, all the PPC related codes all took out.

Yes, could be part of the reason.

 

[Gunbucker]

ZFS has been available as read-only in every leopard install, and as read-write for everyone via a developer beta. The big news is that Apple is much more transparent now about what they plan to do with it (boot support etc). The read-only portion in Leopard has been pretty well tested and is figured as solid.
It's great to see that ZFS is maturing on the mac.

/System/Library/Filesystems/zfs.fs
/System/Library/Extensions/zfs.readonly.kext
/usr/lib/libzfs.dylib
/usr/sbin/zfs
/usr/share/man/man8/zfs.8
/usr/share/man/man8/zfs.util.8

Probably just read_only support so we won't complain about getting at ZFS stuff from our old machines, etc.

I know. But not in Snow Leopard. Quite an unpopular move by Apple to remove any remnants of it.

 

[Gunbucker]

I thought small foot print is because no need to support PowerPC codes? Hence, all the PPC related codes all took out.

Another reason is code re-use from the now well-matured Cocoa classes. The Finder re-write is a good example.

 

[Ninja23XX]

If we upgraded to this new OS, would we need to reinstall all the softwares like Microsoft Word etc? Would our data still be intact? I hope i don't have to reinstall all the programmes

GMAN

 

[ortega]

i think now the code is optimised to run on intel platform only, hence the speed boost and smaller footprint

 

[germ_boi]

I used a software called Monolingual to get rid of the languages I did not need, and I think it also help to remove the PPC code which this system doesn't need.

 

[egnaro]

A stupid question, if upgrade the OS, will all program lost? meaning reinstall?

Nope. But that said, backing up your personal folders first is always a good idea.

depend on which OS. :bsmilie:

For Windows, better do a clean install.

For Mac OS X, no problem. :thumbsup:

I asked the similar question... Please see above.

Cheers!

If we upgraded to this new OS, would we need to reinstall all the softwares like Microsoft Word etc? Would our data still be intact? I hope i don't have to reinstall all the programmes

GMAN