Five Windows 7 and Snow Leopard differences

Chron Tech BLog ^ | September 01, 2009 | Dwight Silverman

[Uri’el-2012]

np>"Apple sold a lot of PowerPCs. Aren't a lot of them still in use?"

Yes, including two PowerBook G4s here, six years old and still going strong. They're running 10.5.8 Leopard. Apple continues to maintain Leopard, so I have no problem with this approach.

I also have a 17" PowerBook which I just updated the battery
and a 17" iMac both running OS X 10.5.8
in addition to two intel machines.

The PowerBook and the iMac are both six years old.

[VeniVidiVici]

That machine is partitioned to boot into several OSes. It ain't the hardware.

LOL! And yet Win7 crashes when you're installing it and takes an inordinate amount of time to delete a 4k file.

Perhaps you need to look over your boot and system partitions, and the filesystems, for each of your "several OSes". And maybe a NIC or two. Using 10Mb NICs? 16 color cards? Uncle Joe's fandacular scanner complete with a card and drivers?

[GRRRRR]

Hey LawDoc, I have a 500gig WD for Time Machine backup and a 1TB WD for regular data storage. Immediately after Snow install I didn’t have either one.

The 500 gig is on USB and the 1TB is daisy chained FW800.

I unplugged both and then reconnected and rebooted. No problems since.

I was thinking SL didn’t like the 1TB drive since it’s so big...but no probs since.

[SunkenCiv]

Have a safe trip!

[AFreeBird]

I love ThinkPads. Been using them since the mid 90's. I'm currently running a T61 with OpenSuSE, and Winders (W2K & Win7RC1) in VirtualBox. I cannot stress enough how much I absolutely HATE a trackpad mouse, but the TrackPoint/UltaNav on the ThinkPad is perfect (I disabled the pad part in BIOS).

My Last ThinkPad, a T30, I dropped a couple of times while it was running. Even broke off a corner on the front outer shell. Didn't miss a beat, and kept on running both times. The only issue I ever had with it, was more my fault. I kept the thing running so much, and I have fury critters, that the CPU fan got clogged up and began giving fan errors, running slow and making noise. Download of the service manual; disassembly is remarkably straight forward; removal of the heat sink fan, cleaning and re-assembly took care of the problem. Anyway, the mouse is a reason I won't buy a MacBook, or any other laptop that doesn't utilize a trackpoint.

I do love my pocket Mac (iPhone) though.

[SunkenCiv]

:’D

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Heh. You don’t know who you’re talking to, but you may be assured I know what I’m doing.

Besides, I’ve installed it on three machines. It’s inoperative on one, having woken up to a BSOD one fine day. Then it crashed on my main work machine. Hey, “release candidate” still means beta.

[SunkenCiv]

There are a lot of them, mainly because they last a long time. This one I’m using is a PowerMac 7600, hmm, got it in 1995? 1996? Have to look it up, don’t feel like it. I probably should shut down sometime and replace the tiny original hard drive. It has never been reformatted, and is SCSI, so I’d probably move the 18 gb outboard SCSI drive (10,000 RPM IBM drive) into the CPU, and use the gigantic and cheap external drives, using Firewire. This runs 9.2.2 of the OS, which is the last “classic” version. Used to run 9.2.1, which is officially the max for this machine, but I found something online to make 9.2.2 install. There’s a way or two to install OS X on these machines as well, might be amusing. Could just install each OS on a different drive and boot as needed.

But anyway, that said, Apple’s switch to Intel took place four years ago, and (as someone noted) Apple continues to upgrade Leopard which supports PPC. I’m not what you’d call an early adopter, obviously, but my next CPU (whenever that happens, and it won’t be soon) will be a Mac Pro laptop, unless something compelling emerges by the time I’m ready. :’)

[Lawdoc]

thanks!

[VeniVidiVici]

I’ve got the Gold W2K8R2, perhaps Win7 is also out there now for you to try.

[o2bfree]

> Amazing the lengths the Apple fanboys...

Sorry Astronaut. I’m a Apple shareholder not a fanboy :-)

[Richard Kimball]

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Hold down the 6 and 4 key when you boot up. It boots up in 64 bit.

[Astronaut]

My T400s replaced a 2 year old R61 that ran and ran like a tank. The thing never gave me a moment’s problems. I have Vista Business 64 bit on the T400s, and will soon upgrade it to Windows 7 Professional. I’m installing OpenSolaris on the R61 and I’ll keep it as a backup/test machine. As great as the R61 is, the T400s is 10x better.

[PA Engineer]

Note to all: I will be only able to post every couple of days, if that. Mrs. Swordmaker and I are leaving for a ten day cruise to Alaska. I'm not going to pay the $25 for 20 MB of downloads the cruise line wants to have internet access, so I will only be able to post when my iPhone has connection in port.

Cruised Alaska twice. Will do it again. I particularly enjoyed the Skagway Whitepass railroad excursion.

One word of caution on using the iPhone there. Sometimes you "can" be billed for international calls from Canadian ATT services even when in Alaska. It took numerous calls and an itinerary fax to get them to correct it. Something to watch out for.

[Uri’el-2012]

Please. Apple advertises Snow Leopard as 64 bit. It isn’t. On everything but an XServe it boots a 32 bit kernel. Apple continues to lie to its fanboy customers who lap it up, and fall father behind Microsoft in terms of 64 bit computing.

Here is a detailed technical discussion about Mac OS X 10.6 & 64bits

[Swordmaker]

Please. Apple advertises Snow Leopard as 64 bit. It isn’t. On everything but an XServe it boots a 32 bit kernel. Apple continues to lie to its fanboy customers who lap it up, and fall father behind Microsoft in terms of 64 bit computing.

You're wrong. It doesn't matter whether OSX Snow Leopard boots into 64 bit kernel or not; it will dynamically switch to the 64 bit kernel when a 64 bit application is invoked. You can boot 64 bit by holding the 6 and the 4 keys at boot if you fell compelled to do so.