Snow Leopard.

[Mayareira]

Early reviews are pretty awesome. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/te...techupdateema1

I'll be getting mine as soon as possible. +7 gigs of free space, bunch of neat additions and overall a much faster Leopard for 30 bucks is too good to pass!

[Blabj]

Om nom OpenCL video processing in Quicktime. Might make me change from VLC to Quicktime, at least untill VLC can figure out how to utilise the tech also.

Downloading this now. I'm going to the shops to buy it tomorrow, so I have a hard copy of it, but I can't be bothered to wait that long for it :D

[Kaslo]

I plan of getting a new powerbook this weekend and hopefully will come with it. I had debated buying a new one, then this was announced and pretty much made it a sure thing.

[Isiolia]

Hoping to pick it up today.

[Octavious]

I read somewhere that Adobe dropped CS3 support and that they would not be testing it with Snow Leopard. Although I'm not a big fan of what they changed, as i'm still using CS3, I would be pretty pissed if I spent $30 to upgrade my OS and ended up spending another $600 to upgrade to CS4. Aside from that, the consensus on the upgrade seems to be that it's pretty decent. I've heard nothing bad about it from any of my friends either. IIRC, Slashdot had a good review up yesterday but for the life of me I can't find it.

[Isiolia]

I've heard mixed things with CS3. The review linked above mentions having some issue, but doesn't specify. Slashdot had a post yesterday fussing about alternatives to Adobe apps because of the lack of support, but people running the developer build said they weren't seeing problems with it anyway.
I dunno, not supported and not working aren't necessarily the same thing. Hopefully it won't present a problem.

[Octavious]

I dunno, not supported and not working aren't necessarily the same thing. Hopefully it won't present a problem.

Yea, thats what I was thinking too. It could still work, nothing is forcing it to have to break. I've been running most of my Windows 7 stuff in the XP Mode, which is pretty solid suprisingly. This is kind of on-topic, but I'm wondering how long before I can update my DELL w/Hackintosh. I'm expecting it to take longer to get Snow Leopard than Leopard, but I do enjoy playing with my iPhone on it. :-D Leopard is nice, especially since I can code random junk for my iPhone since I can use the Dev Kit without having to buy a MacBook.

[octopus]

It's on the fedex truck delivering today for me! I'm at work so I have to wait until I get home to install though.

[Mayareira]

Here is a compatibility list.

Snow Leopard Compatibility: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Compatibility List

[Okan]

I already ordered it. Just waiting for it to arrive. Been fun using a macbook -- helps me differentiate between work and home/play. Windows at work and OSX at home.

[Moridam]

Ordered mine a couple days ago, just waiting for FedEx to come by. I probably won't reclaim quite as much space as advertised, as I already gutted the 1+GB of superfluous printer drivers years ago, haha.

[Darus Grey]

Yea, thats what I was thinking too. It could still work, nothing is forcing it to have to break. I've been running most of my Windows 7 stuff in the XP Mode, which is pretty solid suprisingly. This is kind of on-topic, but I'm wondering how long before I can update my DELL w/Hackintosh. I'm expecting it to take longer to get Snow Leopard than Leopard, but I do enjoy playing with my iPhone on it. Leopard is nice, especially since I can code random junk for my iPhone since I can use the Dev Kit without having to buy a MacBook.

We've had Developer builds for awhile, and there's effectively been 0 progress made. They clamped down quite a bit on hackintoshes with Snow Leopard after the gaping hole that was Leopard.

Sucks, but least Snow Leopard is a huge upgrade for people who can use Grand Central and OpenCL...Now to wait 5yrs for MS to play catch up again.

[Moridam]

Got mine up and running now, and actually recovered close to 8GB all told, which was quite a surprise. Definitely liking this so far! :D

[Mayareira]

That's awesome news, I can use every bit of extra space since I almost always have less than 10 gigs. External drive does help, but there are times I simply don't feel like carrying it around with me.

[Korietsu]

I need to pick mine up and install.

[Moridam]

That's awesome news, I can use every bit of extra space since I almost always have less than 10 gigs. External drive does help, but there are times I simply don't feel like carrying it around with me.

Yeah, I've been running at around ~6-7GB free on average for a long time now. It seems it's recovered even more space after I posted, up to about 9.5GB back now (sitting on ~16.5 free), I'm not sure where it's finding this free space but I do rather like it.

After an hour or so messing around, everything definitely feels a bit snappier, more responsive, etc.. Might just be in my head, but at least subjectively I'd say 10.6 is definitely faster than 10.5. That's on a 3-year old Core Duo base-model Macbook which has never been reformatted/clean-installed etc.

So far, my initial impression is I'm pleased with the upgrade, even if it lacks in the bells/whistles department like when making the jump from 10.4>10.5. Definitely worth the $30!

[archibaldcrane]

I'm still on 10.4.11 - what would be the best way for me to get up to 10.6 (torrents are very acceptable, even preferred - although my internets have shit DL speeds at the moment)

[Mayareira]

I'm still on 10.4.11 - what would be the best way for me to get up to 10.6 (torrents are very acceptable, even preferred - although my internets have shit DL speeds at the moment)

Assuming that you have an intel mac(Snow Leopard is intel only)...

The legal way is to buy the 149$ Amazon.com: Mac Box Set – (with Snow Leopard): Software which comes with ilife, etc.

However, this Tiger Users Can Get a Cheap Upgrade to Snow Leopard - PC World article suggests that its possible to upgrade by using the 25$ version as well. But that'd technically violate the end user agreement. Illegal, but unlike Microsoft, Apple does not use CD-KEY's so that wouldn't really cause too much problem.

[Isiolia]

Far as I've seen it's an EULA technicality, 10.6 will upgrade from 10.4 as well as 10.5, or you can do a clean install. The disc isn't crippled/special, Apple is just offering it on the honor system, so to speak.

Could be that they want to bundle it with the updated versions of iLife and iWork assuming that if you've got an old version of the OS, if you even have copies of those apps, they're probably out of date too.

[Mayareira]

To be honest more than half of tiger users will probably unintentionally use the 25$ Snow Leopard disc. It all boils down to 149$ set with iLife and iWork(which is pretty good) vs. 25$ Snow Leopard only.