so...what kind of compatibility issues are you going to run into...app wise?
remember how Adobe CS2 ran faster on a G4/G5 imax than on one of the new Intel imaxs.
Adobe CS4 will run great on it but what about all of the other apps that you use?

winmac

man, im glad i waited before upgrading to leopard, i was about go to the apple store a few days ago and pick up a copy of leopard. But this is promising news promising news! lets just hope that they don't high ball us with a price.

NFLBLitze1

i started with tiger, heard about leopard and was like whatever it can't be that great. friend gave me leopard and i was like holy shit what was i thinking. so i think buying snow leopard will be a top priority for me when it comes out -and i know it doesn't have all the cool new gadgets, but who can resist it working faster and being more secure, i can't.

ajh0914

What a waste of money. To create a new OS almost every year is stupid. They should make some new programs, like a porn-hiding program safe thing.

I freebase cocaine for a living

Whew

Derek Devine

@winmac: IMAXs? Like those really curvy/loud movie theaters?

tridtaei

@I freebase cocaine for a living: why would I want to hide my porn?

PinoErginus

@ajh0914: I'm hoping Grand Central is as awesome as Apple says it is.

More 64-bit support is a plus too.

Anticitizen

I could have sworn they said it would be ready in a year last year. I am expecting it to be released at MCF2009.

knome

@knome: IIRC, they said "It'll be ready in a year" in January....

Chroma

@PinoErginus: I have roommates.

I freebase cocaine for a living

@tridtaei: yeah...an imax...it is an all in wonder pc (personal computer) made by Apple/Macintosh.
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winmac

So then it will come out in mid-June and the patch on July 2.

OMG! Ponies!

@ajh0914: I'm skipping Leopard and waiting for Snowy. Didn't seem like a 'must have' upgrade over Tiger.
Tiger -> SL jump will have a bigger impact.

ellito

@NFLBLitze1: It will be at least $129. Just like Leopard.

OMG! Ponies!

@I freebase cocaine for a living: And?

L_A_G

@rattyuk: No, the six-month delay followed by a patch two weeks later was the Leopard release schedule.

OMG! Ponies!

@I freebase cocaine for a living: Apple's OS costs $129. If only 1 million copies get sold, it's $129 million. Not a bad annual cash infusion.

OMG! Ponies!

@OMG! Ponies!: Think that's M$ release schedule...

rattyuk

@L_A_G: I think what he's saying is he's afraid his roomates will find out he's gay.

homerjay- Smiling politely

@winmac: (I think by now people know what pc means)

mrjack711

@winmac: It was supposed to be a joke winmac... iMac is the machine you're talking about, IMAX is 3D cinema technology :)

dazman76

Let it take to June im happy with Leopard if they promise to make right tweaks in key applications.

- Improve the Finder plzzz.
- Give us more options in controlling the document vs application things.
- Fix the main applications, like Mail!!

Leopard is awesome and powerful, BUT, to make it ur own u will need many many small utilities.

I cant remember everything cuz im on the company PC. but will write a full "wish" list when im home.

medopal

Since Snow Leopard's job in life is to be stable and solid rather than add glitzy new features, does that mean the initial release shouldn't suffer from the usual iffiness of version 1.0's?

frigg

I will buy it if it has significant performance increases. easy peasy.

MrBlahBlah

@homerjay- Smiling politely: No, it's a female roommate. And I'm not gay.

I freebase cocaine for a living

@I freebase cocaine for a living: Could they retool iTunes in this thing? Frickin' bloatware...

cschack

@Optimus-Prime: Porn collection not more collection

Optimus-Prime

@PinoErginus: I have a girlfriend that i'm sure would never perform anything she saw in my more collection out of spite if she saw it.

@I freebase cocaine for a living: I second the porn hiding (at least from spotlight) would be a great idea!

Optimus-Prime

@I freebase cocaine for a living:Not that there's anything wrong with that.

homerjay- Smiling politely

@winmac: CS2 was emulated on Intel Macs because it was coded and compiled for PPC, so yeah, sure it was slower, but that was because of architecture change, nothing to do with OSX update.

ara

@Joseph: I think the average Joe that purchases a Mac based computer is technically a "fanboy" but the high end users are usually utilizing Macs for.... well, high-end performance. Or at least thats how I look at it.

imTheKing

@rattyuk: The MS release schedule is more like "wait 7 years, release product, pretend product never existed. :)

imTheKing

@frigg: Or it will suffer from it more than ever since they are re-coding the already working bits, possibly making few new mistakes in the process.

ara

I wonder how they are gonna market this since it won't be glamor and glitz. For anyone doing high processing work, it's going to be great, but what will be their marketing plan to get the average Joe on board?

Joseph

I will buy snow leopard if it allows me to switch between my video cards without logging off of my MBP.

timak

@I work as a meth lab technician: *Loads shotgun*

I freebase cocaine for a living

@homerjay- Smiling politely: How nice of you.

I freebase cocaine for a living

Oh, gee. Another couple years and I'll have more Mac OS cd's than AOL trials.

Keeter

@Nintenboy01: I don't want to say for sure but I believe Snow Leopard is Intel only.

imTheKing

@I freebase cocaine for a living: hahaha.

imTheKing

Wonder if this will still work on my loyal 1.25 GHz eMac? It runs Leopard ok, but Tiger was faster, especially the dock magnification.

Nintenboy01

@imTheKing: Joe...The Plumber?

Sorry.

I freebase cocaine for a living

@I freebase cocaine for a living: Suggest it to Apple... But the neat bit about Snow Leopard is that it isn't in fact a new OS. It's a refinement of Leopard, slimmed down and speeded up.

Kit Eaton

@bagellord:

well, boot camp is on a different partition, so it technically shouldn't matter.....right?

MrBlahBlah

@I work as a meth lab technician:
I hate to weigh in on this at all, but there IS a porn hiding mode available. You can allow specific folders to not be included in a spotlight search, and even types of files.

ALT

I will most defineatley get this for my MBP when it comes out if there are no major issues. Should be fun to install it around Boot Camp and everything.

bagellord

@OMG! Ponies!: Cha ching!

rcast1986

@Kit Eaton: Yeahhh, so shouldn't a retooling come free? That's what most of the fanboys were saying about Win7. And maybe instead of spending time and money advertising and 'retooling' Leopard, they could be working on fixing all my damn iPhone problems (brings to mind a certain 'Get A Mac' ad.)

rcast1986

I for one love the idea behind Snow Leopard but am not sure if it deserves full OS pricing - maybe half-price?

I've always wondered what would happen if a software company stopped trying to beat the curve with new bloated features and instead decided to overhaul and perfect their current system. It seems to me like hardware has massive power these days, yet all it's done is allow OS and software developers to become lazy about their algorithms and systems architecture.

Here's to hoping that Snow Leopard results in some tangible performance gains.

glebec

@imTheKing: it is
thats why it smaller, faster, and the apps are smaller.

absolutely no ppc libraries are available.

mikeg916

YAY!!!!!

vgart

I wonder how much they're going to charge for this, especially since it really doesn't have any "consumer" features to tote. If it's more than 10 bucks I'll stick with Leopard.

mms1648

@imTheKing: ah, put i hear people bitching that win7 is coming out too quickly. cant win sometimes...

natenovs

@Kit Eaton: and you guys pay money for that?

natenovs

hopefully they won't break networking like they have in every other recent release... I am *so* tired of all the Mac users complaining that they have crappy/no network connection when they upgrade to the latest Mac OS.

Mac - love the hardware, not so big on the software...

Anthemx

@natenovs: Well people should realize that its coming out "too" quickly because its Vista in a nutshell.

imTheKing

@mikeg916: In that case it's a good thing I upgraded to Leopard. I was planning to stick to Tiger until Snow Leopard.

Nintenboy01

@mms1648: If the performance really is considerably improved I'd be willing to pay up to $50 for SL.

Nintenboy01

If you just want to trim down Leopard then try Monolingual.

[monolingual.sourceforge.net]

I'm on board for some OpenCL Snow Leopardy goodness (I'll get it free from work though).

broho

@Optimus-Prime:
"""Porn collection not more collection"""

It's alright, we know what you were thinking.

Kyang

pretty sure they held off refreshes of the iMac and MacPro in order to ship them with Snow ... which might also usher in some valhalla love

PuckDaddy