In the meantime here is a report of Dan Frakes' installing Snow Leopard for your edification and enjoyment...
Mac Snow Leopard Install Ping!
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
Posted on 08/28/2009 1:22:02 PM PDT by Swordmaker
The FedEx driver is a Mac user. He said his truck is full of upgrade paclages!
pretty lengthy... but, worth the read I think.
In the meantime here is a report of Dan Frakes' installing Snow Leopard for your edification and enjoyment...
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
I got mine today too. I’m doing the install right now. Got another 10 minutes to go says the progress bar.
Let us know what you think of it afterwards!
Install completed in exactly 29 minutes...still looking around to see what’s up!
Got it this morning from the Apple store. Was there right as the store opened, already about 20 people there most getting Snow Leopard.
Install took 45 minutes. Got back 10GB of space. So far so good other than it breaking my Safari Adblocker which has put me back on Firefox for now. Plug ins appear to be the only thing breaking for me, but I haven’t tried much. My regular use apps are all good.
Snow Leopard is nice stuff. I think the performance gains have been slightly exaggerated, but on the whole it feels like Leopard with extra RAM.
The Expose changes are welcome. Not just Dock Expose, but the way in which Expose functions has been changed around. For example, if you have a minimized window, it now appears in Expose. Very handy.
Snow Leopard is a nice basis for OS X to advance into the next decade. 10.7 should be extraordinary. In the meantime, Apple, can we get a 64-bit iTunes 9 please?
Ever heard of a ‘hackintosh’?
Buy specific motherboard and processor combinations, and build your own high end ‘hackintosh’ for less than $800.
While I do love the elegance of the MacOS; and have no problem purchasing the software, the hardware is just ‘over-priced’ for what you get.
Oh, by the way, Swordmaker. Snow Leopard changes how OS X computes disk space. It abandons the base 2 counting (1,024MB = 1GB) for base 10 counting (1,000MB = 1GB) in line with the addition of kibibytes, mebibytes, and gibibytes into the tech lexicon.
This is partially why Snow Leopard frees up hard drive space. It changes how the space is counted.
Nice idea, but hard to do for a laptop.
So, if I purchase the OS, a motherboard, a processor, hard drive, video card and build a computer using the better performance parts than Apple, I am therefore a pirate?
I guess that every Hot Rod builder needs to go to jail too. Every log cabin builder, everyone who builds anything is similarily a pirate. So, let’s lock up the carpenters who make cabinettes that look like expensive, over-priced store models, home re-modellers, architects, everyone who builds anything is now a pirate.
Why then, oh wise one, is Psystar still in business?
Didn't really notice a big difference on boot up speed. Same with sleep/wake up. I recently upgraded my Macbook HD to an Intel SSD, so those were already pretty fast for me.
I got about 10GB back after upgrade. I believe Apple promised 6 or 7 so that was a nice surprise.
Overall though the system does feel faster. Safari is quicker. Finder is more responsive. New Quicktime looks really good.
All of my developer stuff for iPhone works. Had to get a new SDK for 10.6 though (400 MB download). VMware Fusion looks okay.
Only application that I can see that broke is iRAPP. I use that so I can RDP to my Mac from my Linux box. That's kind of a pain to lose that. Hopefully I can resolve that shortly.
I wonder .... the motherboards made by most computers for laptops are all Intel reference designs, primarily made by Foxconn and Quanta in China.
I belive Psystar makes a laptop - it shouldn’t be hard to build a COTS laptop that will load and run the MacOS.
Personally, I would like to see the MacOS compete directly against Windows. The same hardware, lower cost per OS, better functinality, performance and with the Boot Camp functionality - there is no reason not to have a dual-booting PC.
I bought my iMac in March and I LOVE IT. But, can anyone tell me why I should upgrade to Snow Leopard? I know, I know, I could do a search online, but I wanted to get some opinions here. Thanks!
Lets say Apple authorized Dell to sell dual boot computers
After they checked out OSX for a while I'm sure most users would end up using Windows 7 most of the time
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.