I've had to put up with that for almost a month! On a scale you can't even believe.jsnipy wrote:
I've heard a few guys in the office cumming over its release today.
Where do you work?Bertster7 wrote:
I've had to put up with that for almost a month! On a scale you can't even believe.jsnipy wrote:
I've heard a few guys in the office cumming over its release today.
It does seem pretty good though. Leaner, faster version of Leopard with a few more bells and whistles.
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They say it shouldn't be mistaken with an update as its supposed to be a completely new OS.FFLink wrote:
My friend (A Mac nerd) says it's a stupid update, or something along those lines.
Yeah on their site it says its an update though when I watched a vid it said what I posted before.Uzique wrote:
how so? it costs like £20 and does nothing but make your machine faster and easier to use. it's like a windows service pack, only one that simplifies things instead of introducing another 21251 bugs and loopholes. at the moment a few software suites dont have support for the new osx, but it's a marketing move on their part- forcing users to buy their latest version, such as with adobe and photoshop cs3/cs4 (cs3 will have no snow leopard support, give us your bucks for cs4 etc). i dont see how anyone can complain in principle about paying for an upgrade that, well, actually upgrades your os.
My only real issue with it is that in my mind going from 10.5 to 10.6 isn't really a new OS, so getting people to pay for it seems a little cheap. That said, it's not much money and is worth doing, so it's a good idea to upgrade.Uzique wrote:
how so? it costs like £20 and does nothing but make your machine faster and easier to use. it's like a windows service pack, only one that simplifies things instead of introducing another 21251 bugs and loopholes. at the moment a few software suites dont have support for the new osx, but it's a marketing move on their part- forcing users to buy their latest version, such as with adobe and photoshop cs3/cs4 (cs3 will have no snow leopard support, give us your bucks for cs4 etc). i dont see how anyone can complain in principle about paying for an upgrade that, well, actually upgrades your os.
It totally is a new OS.ghettoperson wrote:
My only real issue with it is that in my mind going from 10.5 to 10.6 isn't really a new OS, so getting people to pay for it seems a little cheap. That said, it's not much money and is worth doing, so it's a good idea to upgrade.Uzique wrote:
how so? it costs like £20 and does nothing but make your machine faster and easier to use. it's like a windows service pack, only one that simplifies things instead of introducing another 21251 bugs and loopholes. at the moment a few software suites dont have support for the new osx, but it's a marketing move on their part- forcing users to buy their latest version, such as with adobe and photoshop cs3/cs4 (cs3 will have no snow leopard support, give us your bucks for cs4 etc). i dont see how anyone can complain in principle about paying for an upgrade that, well, actually upgrades your os.
Apple UK.TopHat01 wrote:
Where do you work?Bertster7 wrote:
I've had to put up with that for almost a month! On a scale you can't even believe.jsnipy wrote:
I've heard a few guys in the office cumming over its release today.
It does seem pretty good though. Leaner, faster version of Leopard with a few more bells and whistles.
That's because the speed improvements due to it being 64-bit are insane. It goes SOOO much faster, particularly for loading images. The optimisations from removing all the redundant PPC code are great too - faster and smaller, yes please.TopHat01 wrote:
I had no idea it came out today until reading this thread. I don't think it's the "Most advanced operating system" they claim it to be...but Apple always advertises 2-3 year old concepts as brand new technology, so I guess I couldn't really expect much.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/technology/
Pretty fucking lame how they devoted half the page to tell you about 64 bit. Whoever graphed the speed of 32 bit vs. 64 bit must of been either stoned, drunk or both.
Ah, fair enough, I had it down as just being a service pack type thing. So at what point will they bring out OS11, or do they like the way OSX sounds, so they'll just stick with that?Bertster7 wrote:
It totally is a new OS.ghettoperson wrote:
My only real issue with it is that in my mind going from 10.5 to 10.6 isn't really a new OS, so getting people to pay for it seems a little cheap. That said, it's not much money and is worth doing, so it's a good idea to upgrade.Uzique wrote:
how so? it costs like £20 and does nothing but make your machine faster and easier to use. it's like a windows service pack, only one that simplifies things instead of introducing another 21251 bugs and loopholes. at the moment a few software suites dont have support for the new osx, but it's a marketing move on their part- forcing users to buy their latest version, such as with adobe and photoshop cs3/cs4 (cs3 will have no snow leopard support, give us your bucks for cs4 etc). i dont see how anyone can complain in principle about paying for an upgrade that, well, actually upgrades your os.
Saying otherwise is silly. It is not like a Windows service pack. It couldn't work as a bolt on to the OS, it takes half of the OS out and doesn't work on half the hardware that 10.5 does, for a start.
The way it works is totally different. In many ways it's a bigger difference under the hood than Windows 7 is to Vista. The stripping out of old PPC compliance is a big step, makes it go faster and makes the OS install way smaller. The new kernel and focus on 64-bit is great. New image handling. New email systems compliance. New directory services handling.
Maybe it's a bit light on front end tweaks, but all OSX releases are.
Also, no serials or activation for OS's is pure win.
oh boo fucking hooFFLink wrote:
Not much money for the individual.
They still get a shit load as of it all adding up.
That line still gets used a lot?It just works.
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i wasnt aware i was quoting anything there... im just talking in plain terms about the os. i dont want to write an essay to people that are anti-apple no matter fucking what. some people wont listen to how much better 64-bit OSX is compared to 64-bit windows. the boot/shut-down times, app load times and general use of the operating system is streamlined and lightning fast.Lucien wrote:
That line still gets used a lot?It just works.