Comments on: Apple previews new version Mac OS, Snow Leopard

By: iu

iu — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:56:51 +0000

400MB(14) + 139MB(1), DMG Format, DVD9 (Dual Layer), ~6.52GB

By: Jai

Jai — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:26:08 +0000

Can someone plllleassseee up some rapidshare links please, been searchin all over the net for live links!

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4248107/Mac_OS_X_10.6_Snow_Leopard_WWDC__08_Developer_Preview

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:06:35 +0000

Don’t really understand why there’s the whole fanboy thing thwarted back and forth, it’s just immature, I have worked for microsoft for a number of years, I own a Mac Pro, it runs windows better than most pc’s i’ve seen running windows, it runs os x most of the time though, and I ask, for the minimal markup price over pc hardware (which i custom configure on my windows boxes also) isn’t it worth it for the ensured stability that comes with an operating system designed for a small selection of hardware configurations as opposed to something that’s made to try get along with everything? (even the OSx86 project has its downfalls, although it is still as stable as windows ) Microsoft have the upper hand with game developers but i see this changing in the near future with more stable iterations of cider. Okay it’s built on darwin, which is an iteration of unix, which in many respects is open source, but heck its very polished, dos was unstable, even the newest versions of nt based architecture are more unstable than the unix core of os x.
They’ll always have their pro’s and con’s but thats what drives each of them forward, vista is doing poorly, the last service pack was only a small adjustment, Microsoft will have to work harder to keep apple’s market share down, as os x becomes a stronger, more compatible os.
I expect by the time os 11 is round, Microsoft probably wont have improved all that much and it’ll be fun to see what happens. But by no means do we need the ‘fanboy’ bickering, you’re just embarrassing yourselves.

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:20:42 +0000

Yes, Mac does copy from OpenSource, but at least they are trying to improve and keep up the standard rather than how Microsoft try to compete against the standard.

I grew up with MS computers. ive only recently (last 3 years) been purchasing apple mac products and i think as a whole they are better than MS stuff.

i an see the advantage in both products. the biggest advantage with windows stuff is there is far more FREEWARE out there for windows AND there is far more software for windows that you can obtain cracks and serials for.

this, i believe, is why pee cee fanboys love their PCs so much, is that they are just too comfortable in using half-hearted software that only does half the job. they need 4-5 different programs to do the 1 task. either these programs are very cheap or a freeware.

take mac’s idvd for example. it will convert any movie onto dvd. it will even convert ntsc to pal with no dropped (or sped up) frames. this is just one program that comes standard with the iLife suite, a suite that came free when i bought my MBP.

By: ccool

ccool — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:46:22 +0000

@ Dead Indian

Yet another PeeCee Fanboy pretending to be a Mac user to make a point. Your comment at 94 proves this Sherlock!

By: dead indian

dead indian — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:28:20 +0000

mac fanboys like #95 are an embarressment even to me, a mac user.

i yearn for the days of bbs’s – no losers or idiots there – only intelligent geeks from all over the world.

grow up plz

By: ccool

ccool — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:14:42 +0000

@dumb de dumb de dumb

It’s for getting those 50-350 MB security patches and bug fixes that Apple releases from time to time, kind of like Microsoft’s monthly “Patch Tuesday” only with WAY more flaws that needed to be corrected.

so my software update ive been given today for itunes and iphoto is a security patch?
and there was me thinking it was for giving me more stuff to play with.
more flaws? I see it as giving there customers more options and a better service?
Remind me how many probs has vista had?

I think its funny how pee cee users come onto something that is for a mac? whats wrong boys having a look at what ur missing out on??
dont worry u can have the new stuff in a few months when bill gates buys a copy of the new osx and copys half of it and changes the colour a little and moves it a little so its not a 100% copy :p

By: dead indian

dead indian — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:13:59 +0000

i’m yawning like a snow leopard right now

By: dumb de dumb de dumb

dumb de dumb de dumb — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:03:33 +0000

@ccool/#84
“You 100% sure about that as being a mac user for x amount of years I could swear blind I get free updates, but hey what would I know I only had a mac for 9 years.
Soooooooooo remind me what the software update is for on my mac?”

By: grimpr

grimpr — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:29:21 +0000

Snow Leopard comes with an array of strong under the hood features, ZFS-OpenCL-Multicore aware etc…rightfully so the Apple engineer says that they build the base for thousands features more to come. As i like to hate the Apple marketing team and their whole subculture the truth is that Micro$oft has nothing on OSX, plain and simple Apple puts very strong and very advanced technologies at each iteration of OSX and they’re not merely service packs…the ZFS filesystem that Apple ported from Sun Microsystems is THE total state of the art in filesystems, OpenCL will bring the power of the GPU on almost all the video/audio applications on OSX and Grand Central will give a huge speed boost to all applications. OSX builds and expands a very strong foundation with each release with some of the best tech available, Microsoft still copes with legacy,service packs and lack of enthusiasm. People understand more nowdays and the microsoft koolaid somehow lost its flavor…

By: misiek

misiek — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:55:53 +0000

ummm…cant we all just get along?

By: hobag

hobag — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:13:24 +0000

leopard works, as far as ive ever seen. i push it pretty hard and occasionally i get a system overload message out of logic pro, which is just because im expecting too much of my RAM (running too many big sampled instruments) so it wont play back, but otherwise continues to work. 95% of the time when i do that in cubase sx on my pc, i get blue screen, restart and pray i saved recently.

everything else is flawless, as far as im concerned.

By: Blah

Blah — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:44:40 +0000

I wonder if you can actually uninstall applications in this version without purchasing a 3rd party app.

10 million sales to apple vs 300 million to microsoft..geez apple is really taking over

By: Brett

Brett — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:52:25 +0000

Another example of Apple leveraging off Microsoft products to sell their OS. Better get Leopard right before you move on to a new OS.

By: jdownloader

jdownloader — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:25:35 +0000

Did Mac Observer just get pwned?