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Mac OSX Snow Leapard Launches Friday!

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Lionheart

SOH-CM-2014
Hey all,

For you Mac owners, Mac OSX Snow Leopard comes out Friday. This is an extensive OS update, bringing OSX to 86bit. There are a number of udpates.

Mac OS X Snow Leopard is an even more powerful and refined version of the world's most advanced operating system. It enhances the entire Mac experience in ways big and small, making the Mac more reliable and easier to use.

Mac OS X Snow Leopard includes hundreds of improvements that will help make your Mac faster, more responsive, and more reliable than ever. Installation is up to 50 percent faster than with Mac OS X Leopard; wake from sleep is as much as two times faster; shutdown is up to 80 percent faster; and initial Time Machine backups to Time Capsule are up to 80 percent faster than in Leopard.

Dock. Now Exposé is integrated in the Dock, giving you a quick and easy way to see all the open windows of an application.

Finder. The Finder has been completely rewritten to take advantage of the new technologies in Snow Leopard. The familiar Finder interface is unchanged, but you'll discover that the Finder is faster and more responsive. It also includes an enhanced icon view with live file previews, so you can thumb through a multipage document or even watch a QuickTime movie.

New core technologies. New core technologies in Snow Leopard unleash the power of today's advanced hardware and prepare Mac OS X for future innovation.

QuickTime X. The next-generation media technology, QuickTime X powers the audio and video experience in Snow Leopard. It debuts a completely new QuickTime Player application with a clean, uncluttered interface as well as an easy way to record, trim, and share your media.

Out-of-the-box support for Microsoft Exchange. Snow Leopard includes out-of-the-box support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 in Mail, iCal, and Address Book, so it's easier than ever to take your Mac to work.

Safari 4. The latest version of the blazing-fast web browser delivers up to 50 percent faster JavaScript performance2 and is more resistant to crashes than ever.

Universal Access. Every Mac comes standard with a wide range of assistiveor Universal Accesstechnologies that help people with disabilities experience what the Mac has to offer. Snow Leopard continues this support with a variety of innovative features that advance accessibility even further.
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I need to find out if I can install it with Windows in bootcamp, if it will not damage anything. (I should perhaps backup the drive I guess).


Should really be interesting. The FIND is what I am really looking forward to. It has a search layout (several versions, such as like Windows Explorer has for looking through files), but one is in colums, that stack beside each other. Supposedly they have some enhancements. I'll have to look for an intro movie on it at Apple.com.



So.. Do yah think they'll come out with an iPhone OS86 as well? heh heh. :d
 
Lionheart said:
Hey all,

For you Mac owners, Mac OSX Snow Leopard comes out Friday. This is an extensive OS update, bringing OSX to 86bit. There are a number of udpates.




I need to find out if I can install it with Windows in bootcamp, if it will not damage anything. (I should perhaps backup the drive I guess).


Should really be interesting. The FIND is what I am really looking forward to. It has a search layout (several versions, such as like Windows Explorer has for looking through files), but one is in colums, that stack beside each other. Supposedly they have some enhancements. I'll have to look for an intro movie on it at Apple.com.



So.. Do yah think they'll come out with an iPhone OS86 as well? heh heh. :d
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86 bit? Whoa. Take that MS. I think you might have meant first version of the OS specific to x86 processors? ;)

I installed Leopard with a boot camp partition in place, so I'm pretty sure it will be o.k. But yeah, backing up the drive is always a wise thing to do.
 
The new update cost a 5th of what Windows cost. 29.00 is my kind of a update for a new OS...mIKE
 
I applaud Apple on this OS because even though it doesn't offer much in the way of new technology for MAC except for expanded memory to 16TB and few underpinnings it sure makes it even easier and faster to run this on my less than $500 test system ACER notebook. I don't have to buy a ridiculously expensive Intel dominated MAC to run it. By the way if you are a MAC user you can use the full bus to run the new Nvidias for MAC.
 
Bill I used VMWare and it works brilliantly. http://www.vmware.com/ It isn't supposed to work but it does.
Ted

You can use this site for step by step as well since it has now been updated for Leopard and Windows Vista Dual Boot
 
Be aware that just like releases of "other" popular OS's, there are a few apps that will "break" until they get patches out. I didn't see anything mentioned about the stuff I use, but there are some issues out there. I think I'll wait one more month before I install it to let the dust settle. I'm doing this with Win7 too, maybe even waiting for Win7 SP1 first...

Waiting for the dust to settle gives me that 20/20 hindsight vision thing. :)
 
Smart move CraterMaker.

I have mine in hand, not installed yet. I will backup my WinXP side first before I install it. Cool looking cat on the box.
 
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