Snow Leopard out Friday......for the Mac users!

steph.uk · 08-27-2009, 01:14 PM

No a Snow Leopard is not going to escape from the Zoo tomorrow

Off tomorrow so I think I might pop in to the Apple Store and grab a copy.

The review so far have been good and for the price it is not a big deal though

Anyone thinking to upgrade?

Steph

Speedtrap · 08-27-2009, 01:54 PM

Do you know how much they are going for? Or can you download them for free somewhere?

Delta0311 · 08-27-2009, 01:56 PM

Seems the upgrades are going for $29US.

vivekk · 08-27-2009, 02:15 PM

As I bought my Macbook Pro after June 8th, my copy of Snow Leopard has been shipped as a cost of £7.95, under the Up-to-Date Programme.

I'll be looking forward to the increased speed in photo manipulation & video editing.

If you're using Leopard right now, the single user license to upgrade is £25 & £39 for the Family Pack.

Viv

rogerxp · 08-27-2009, 06:00 PM

What the hell are you guys on about

E902717 · 08-28-2009, 01:04 AM

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Originally Posted by rogerxp

What the hell are you guys on about

Its the new operating system for Mac computers www.apple.com

BoBBoB · 08-28-2009, 01:51 AM

Actually its the new Servicepack for the Mac

only Apple could get away with charging for a Servicepack, even Microsoft give theirs away for free .....

NFS · 08-28-2009, 08:29 AM

I heard that Space Badger was going to be released by Microsoft next week as well.

steph.uk · 08-28-2009, 02:05 PM

That's it got the New Leopard installed.

Upgrade went fine, all files seems at the same place

Cannot comment on speed gain as it is not as significant.

Otherwise, it is all under the hood but nothing really eye catching from an end user point of view.

Has anyone upgraded yet?

S.

red355 · 08-31-2009, 01:48 AM

i have installed snow leopard OSX10.6 on the desktop machine i'm posting from. As you said nothing earth shattering, just worked. Took 22 mins on the 8 core & 45min on the MB Pro

But on my MB Pro is freed up 12GB of hard drive space which is worth the outlay.

BoBBoB · 08-31-2009, 02:35 PM

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Originally Posted by red355

But on my MB Pro is freed up 12GB of hard drive space which is worth the outlay.

I'm not sure 12GB of diskspace is worth the money, a 750GB drive is about £100, so 12GB should be worth about £9 ...

Plus Apple cheated you and me

http://gizmodo.com/5349516/the-real-...h-snow-leopard

steph.uk · 08-31-2009, 03:30 PM

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Originally Posted by BoBBoB

Plus Apple cheated you and me

New it was too good to be true.....

Although I think that the fact that it does not install all the printer drivers available in the world by default might help

M3-FAST · 08-31-2009, 03:36 PM

Just upgraded my 3GHz Intel iMac and can't tell a blind bit of difference

With all the current updates, I was already running Safari 4.03 etc....

Not quite sure what my £25 has bought me as yet?

deletedelete · 08-31-2009, 03:37 PM

I notice a difference. The interface has some changes, certain programs are better designed, more features, around 12gb free for me. Definitely worth the few bucks. But if your not a computer person, you wont notice much so dont bother.

gIzzE · 09-01-2009, 04:51 AM

Alot of Macbook Pro users are reporting the fan working a lot less now. Which is a good thing.

Plus you can use the update disc to upgrade 10.4.

PeteJ · 09-01-2009, 07:34 AM

pre ordered it however bloody TNT will not deliver to any other address once they have attempted your home address and they only open the depo 10 til 4.

Hoping to sneak away from work early today and get it. Might do a backup before hand though

Neil McRae · 09-01-2009, 07:41 AM

To be honest the last two releases Snow Leopard and Leopard have been a step backwards in my view. On my wifes Macbook and on my Dell Crackintosh Laptop Tiger runs much more snappier than Leopard or Snow Leopard.

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