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Snow Leopard's New Math
OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Installation Play By Play
Snow Leopard Compatibility - Which apps work with Mac OS X 10.6?
Snow Leopard - What Doesn't Work
Apple's Snow Leopard Disc Will Install On Tiger Macs - Report
Apple's Snow Leopard Upgrade Disk To Work On Intel-based Macs Running Tiger?
Mossberg Recommends Illegal Use of Snow Leopard Install Disc
Gizmodo Explains: Snow Leopard's Grand Central Dispatch
Apple And Snow Leopard Take-downs - Just Say No
11 Major New Snow Leopard Features
Apple Snow Leopard a Speedy No-brainer Upgrade
Gauging Snow Leopard's Speed Boosts
Snow Leopard's New Math
Macworld's Jason Snell says
....some of the math Apple uses in Mac OS X has changed in Snow Leopard. Particularly, the method Mac OS X uses to describe a file's size. It has to do with how you define a kilobyte, megabyte, and gigabyte..
Believe it or not, these words have had two meanings for a long time....
To read more, click here.
http://www.macworld.com/article/142471/2009/08/snow_leopard_math.html?lsrc=top_1
OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Installation Play By Play
MacFixIt's Topher Kessler says:
Snow Leopard is finally here! I just received my copy, and after creating a full Time Machine backup of my system, I went ahead with the install process.....
For the full commentary visit here:
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20090827094401824
Snow Leopard Compatibility - Which apps work with Mac OS X 10.6?
snowleopard.wikidot.com has posted a Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Compatibility List
Please collaborate by sharing your experiences using each application and by adding applications not already listed. //Simply click EDIT at the bottom of the page to contribute.
There are now four categories: UNKNOWN is for apps that are untested, OK for apps that work fine, NO for apps that do not work, and WARNING for those with some problems.
Example:
Adobe Photoshop Elements http://www.adobe.com/ NO After restoring from Time Machine app gives a licence error
For the full list, see:
http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/
Snow Leopard - What Doesn't Work
The Register's Rik Myslewski says:
A grassroots effort is assiduously testing a broad range of Mac applications to discover which work with Snow Leopard and which don't. And overall, the news is good....
.....there are a few popular items that are troublesome - Adobe Photoshop Elements, for example, plus Macromedia FreeHand MX, Cocktail, iStat Menus, FruitMenu, SilverKeeper, WireTap, and others.....
To read more, click here.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/27/snow_leopard_incompatibilities/
Apple's Snow Leopard Disc Will Install On Tiger Macs - Report
Appleinsider's Sam Oliver says:
Though users of older Intel-based Macs were led to believe they would have to spend $169 to migrate from Tiger to Snow Leopard, new reports state the $29 upgrade disc will work just fine....
For the full report visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/noyaa7
Apple's Snow Leopard Upgrade Disk To Work On Intel-based Macs Running Tiger?
MacFixIt reports:
Several news sources are reporting that, indeed, Apple's forthcoming Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard upgrade disk will install successfully on Intel-based Macs currently running Tiger.
The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg, in his review of Snow Leopard, notes that users can save $140 when upgrading their Intel-based Macs currently running Tiger by simply purchasing the Upgrade disk for Snow Leopard.....
For the full report visit here:
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20090827083500360
Illegal Use of Snow Leopard Install Disc?
Gizmodo's Wilson Rothman says:
I was surprised by one line in Walt Mossberg's otherwise predictable review of Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard:
"But here's a tip: Apple concedes that the $29 Snow Leopard upgrade will work properly on these Tiger-equipped Macs, so you can save the extra $140."
I know Apple's PR people are having a heart attack right now reading that. They don't like it when influential journalists suggest violations of the EULA......
For the full report visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/nyqo2v
Gizmodo Explains: Snow Leopard's Grand Central Dispatch
Gizmodo's Matt Buchanan says:
You've probably heard about this snow kitty operating system for Macintosh computers. What you might not've heard is exactly how it's supposed to be unleashing the power of all those processor cores crammed inside your computer.
To read more, click here.
http://gizmodo.com/5346616/giz-explains-snow-leopards-grand-central-dispatch
Apple And Snow Leopard Take-downs - Just Say No
The Register's John Lettice says:
On Tuesday evening UK time The Register received a take-down notice from San Francisco lawyers acting on behalf of Apple. Our hosting company, Rackspace, received a similar notice, Apple's beef being that The Register had posted "confidential trade secrets" in our First Look at Snow Leopard.
You will notice that we have not withdrawn the piece in accordance with Apple's requests.....
To read more, click here.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/27/apple_reg_take_down/
11 Major New Snow Leopard Features
Macworld staff reports:
Snow Leopard may be a "minor" update to Mac OS X, with a $29 upgrade price and a focus on improved speed and reliability, but it's still bursting at the seams with tweaks, changes, and improvements--as well as a few modifications that might well be quite controversial. Here's a look at some of the biggest changes due to arrive with Snow Leopard on Friday, August 28.
You can check it out at:
http://tinyurl.com/ktw5vm
Apple Snow Leopard a Speedy No-brainer Upgrade
The Chicago Sun Times' Andy Ihnatko weighs in on Snow Leopard here:
http://tinyurl.com/lqujgr
Gauging Snow Leopard's Speed Boosts
Macworld's James Galbraith says:
Apple describes Snow Leopard as a top-to-bottom refinement of existing features. One major goal of those refinements: Improved performance.
Snow Leopard aims to run leaner and faster on current and recent Macs....
To check the performance benefits, we tested Snow Leopard on three different systems: a 20-inch iMac Core 2 Duo/2.66GHz ( Macworld rated 3.5 out of 5 mice ) with 2GB of RAM; a 3GHz Xeon 5300 eight-core Mac Pro with 4GB of RAM (this Mac Pro was released in April 2007); and a 15-inch MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo/2.8GHz ( Macworld rated 4 out of 5 mice ) with 4GB of RAM.
For the full report visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/mefwf9
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