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So who's going to be getting it? I just placed my pre-order so with a bit of luck it'll be waiting for me when I get home from holiday.
SidewinderINC
24-08-2009, 18:31
I'll have to buy the whole package as I'm still running Tiger.
Tempting, but I'd need a new hard drive too so the upgrade will cost me £200 when I'm probably going to upgrade soon anyway... hmmmmm.
I'm still on Tiger too. Updates have just about dried up now so I guess that's our lot. Didn't see anything to make me want to upgrade last time and I doubt I will this time. In fact, I don't even know what's coming so ignorance is bliss. :)
KennyBhoy
24-08-2009, 18:50
I sold my original MacBook 2 years ago. So i have been away from the Mac world since then but on Saturday i had a spontaneous moment and bought this.....
http://i30.tinypic.com/orjzty.jpg
http://i32.tinypic.com/ajl83d.jpg
Girl in the Apple Store told me i'd get Snow Leopard free (excluding P&P). So i'm not gonna turn my nose up to that. Placed my order for it last night. So was surprised to see it's released this week. :)
As for my MBP. Absolutely loving it. The battery life alone is worlds apart from my Sony Vaio laptop. I nearly walked out with a 24" iMac too as the missus loved it so much. :D
I'm still on Tiger too. Updates have just about dried up now so I guess that's our lot. Didn't see anything to make me want to upgrade last time and I doubt I will this time. In fact, I don't even know what's coming so ignorance is bliss. :)
Huge shrinkage of code amongst other things. They're stripping out all sorts of stuff from it so the binaries are reportedly drastically smaller. They're dropping all support for PowerPC from this point onwards. Example reduction in size shows the Mail app being around 100Mb instead of 300Mb, whilst adding Microsoft Exchange support. Total standard OS X install is now <1Gb.
Plus you've now also got OpenCL support integrated to the OS (not sure if any of the OS or standard apps themselves will use it though), which hopefully should see some usage fairly soon from various software vendors. Reportedly it's fairly easy to take advantage of.
Beansprout
25-08-2009, 01:26
I don't really see a huge difference between Tiger on my old MBP and Leapord on my new MBP except the new one is lightning-quick though that's most likely due to the 2.8Ghz CPU and SSD :D
Can't wait for SL though - streamlining and performance is all I care about. I hope to persuade Apple to give it free as we spent £lots with them just a month ago...if not though it's only £25! MS should take a leaf out of Apple's book :)
Burnsy2023
28-08-2009, 17:47
I was hoping my upgrade would arrive today, but alas no :(
I don't know if mine has arrived or not. From what I've heard, very few copies have been delivered today except for those who paid the extra tenner for the faster delivery. I'll find tomorrow but it's not the end of the world if it's not waiting for me.
KennyBhoy
29-08-2009, 00:29
Yeah my copy never showed up either. I hadn't built up my hopes for it showing today. The one chance i get to long lie in the morning will be when the posty decides to ring the door bell to sign for it! :D
Seeing some initial benchmarks from Snow Leopard. Huge performance increases in some cases, and unfortunately a big regression in OpenGL performance. Apple are aware of the latter, and working on a fix.
Chuckles
29-08-2009, 09:50
Picked it up from the shop yesterday.
Bit quicker but hardly any other differences. Just about worth the £25 although it feels more like a service pack update really.
Unfortunately, my work VPN client doesn't work now so I'm probably going to have to time machine back until they fix it.
I spotted some suggestion that 10.4 users can use the cheaper upgrade. Didn't see anything about whether iWork 08 and iLife 08 work afterwards, however.
Chuckles
29-08-2009, 11:05
The disks are all the same. Nothing to stop you installing it over Tiger with the £25 version.
Unfortunately, my work VPN client doesn't work now so I'm probably going to have to time machine back until they fix it.
Cisco VPN client? If so I've got access to all of the downloads on Cisco.com so can grab a later version if you need it.
I'll most likely pick up a copy of Snow Leopard in the coming weeks. I'm happy to let other people find out what's broken and take the pain while it gets fixed.
Chuckles
29-08-2009, 13:39
Cisco VPN client? If so I've got access to all of the downloads on Cisco.com so can grab a later version if you need it.
Thanks, it's Juniper SSL though.
Cisco VPN client? If so I've got access to all of the downloads on Cisco.com so can grab a later version if you need it.
I could really use a copy of the Cisco VPN client for OS X if such a thing exists?
I could really use a copy of the Cisco VPN client for OS X if such a thing exists?
The latest (and Snow Leopard compatible) build for OS X is 4.9.01.0180 which I am currently downloading. I'll rehost and PM you a download link.
Cisco have released v5 for Windows but as usual the OS X versions are lagging behind.
KennyBhoy
31-08-2009, 13:06
My upgrade disc arrived today and I'm currently installing it. Apple are worse than some sellers on Ebay for shipping charges. £8 for second class postage?! :D
Burnsy2023
31-08-2009, 16:52
My upgrade disc arrived today and I'm currently installing it. Apple are worse than some sellers on Ebay for shipping charges. £8 for second class postage?! :D
The preorder didn't charge shipping :)
The £7.95 deal was a 'free' upgrade and £7.95 for shipping, I'm guessing that's what he means.
KennyBhoy
31-08-2009, 17:17
The £7.95 deal was a 'free' upgrade and £7.95 for shipping, I'm guessing that's what he means.
Spot on. :)
The installation has freed up nearly 12Gb of HD space. That alone has impressed me :D
I'm a little miffed by the printer setup - Leopard had specific drivers for my old LJ4000 but it seems that Snow Leopard only wants to install a generic driver unless I'm doing something wrong.
Other people have mentioned similar findings. I don't think it's you.
Possibly the most in detail review of Snow Leopard I've seen so far:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars
Possibly the most in detail review of Snow Leopard I've seen so far:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars
jeez, you weren't joking!
the guardian review is pretty good as well, if slightly abridged comparitivley.
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