http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/ Engadget Comments for Snow Leopard review http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/Aug 26th 2009 9:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/Aug 26th 2009 11:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/Aug 27th 2009 12:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/Aug 27th 2009 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/
I've found that "ooVoo" and some menubar programs don't work properly under SL... yet. ooVoo has a Java problem; some of the menubar programs cause the entire menubar to crash (check the Console for error messages).]]>Aug 27th 2009 12:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/• much more responsive Finder
• better Expose and Stacks
• GCD for advanced multiprocessing
• OpenCL for software that supports GPU offloading
• Native support for MS Exchange 2007
• virtually all apps and kernel operate in 64-bit mode (on capable machines; and this, technically is far superior to Vista x64 which is pretty good)
• QuicktimeX Pro

People paid $29 for Microsoft "Theme Packs" back in the day. Zero increased functionality or code refinements. Pure crap. $29 is a bargain one of Snow Leopard's features. And it has 100+ new refinements....]]>Sep 20th 2009 9:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/
the 29 dollar version is not a full install it is an upgrade from leopard disc. You can not do a clean install with that disc unless you clean install leopard first. Thats why the mac box set is a real deal.]]>Aug 27th 2009 1:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/
You are wrong. I was upgrading my hard drive anyway and did a clean install from the Snow Leopard DVD.]]>Aug 28th 2009 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/Aug 26th 2009 9:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/Aug 26th 2009 9:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/Aug 26th 2009 9:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/]]>Aug 26th 2009 11:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/it may not upgrade (yet to be determined?) may require a clean install but you were going to back-up first, right? so, migration assistant afterwards and you're all good.]]>Aug 27th 2009 12:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/Majority of the editors are biased towards Macs including Nilay and Joshua, they try to keep it subtle but its there and its bull!

Do you guys get paid to do this or what?]]>Aug 27th 2009 5:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/
More* than just a Service Pack





*just a bit more]]>Aug 27th 2009 6:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/Aug 27th 2009 9:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/
I think the final word was pretty middle of the road in not highly praising the update nor trashing it. You are hypersensitive if that was too biased for you. ]]>Aug 27th 2009 10:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/Aug 27th 2009 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/
Care to throw some light on which Mac models can access which Snow Leopard features? I sent a tip to you, pointing to the handy chart put together by Stephen Foskett (and enhanced by Ed Bott of ZDNet) at:

http://blog.fosketts.net/2009/08/24/mac-os-106-snow-leopard-hands-august-28/

I am surprised you did not touch upon how older Macs are left out on some or most of the new features in Snow Leopard. I hope for objectivity's sake, you'd include this data as a PSA.]]>Aug 27th 2009 3:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.taranfx.com/blog/?p=1744
I upgraded from Leopard 10.5.4]]>Aug 27th 2009 7:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/
Snow Leopard is Faster than Leopard. The proof is I upgraded to it from Leopard on my osx86 PC. Yes PC!
(if you are wondering how, here is the guide i used - http://www.taranfx.com/blog/?p=1744 )

And I found it to be at-least 20% faster at all moments. And I love it.
]]>Aug 30th 2009 6:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/Aug 26th 2009 9:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/Aug 26th 2009 9:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/Aug 26th 2009 9:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/Aug 26th 2009 9:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/Aug 26th 2009 9:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/
I enjoy using Mac OS X Snow Leopard mainly because as advertised things just work (even on a hackintosh.. mind you it took a lot to get it going). The software is really easy and attractive.

Going off on a bit of a tangent, what the hell is up with missing crap from windows 7? I can't even properly quick-fix my photos from windows image viewer anymore... I have to get live photo gallery or some crap? Why remove stuff?]]>Aug 26th 2009 9:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/
I was actually about to say the same thing. It's a great operating system....but it's still just not for me. Maybe. :P]]>Aug 26th 2009 9:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/
It's a whole online eco-system that Microsoft is creating, Windows Live, such as tagging people in photos and everybody can see them and stuff. I'm sure it has has to do with the EU, as well all know they like to try and destroy Microsoft by making them remove components of the OS.]]>Aug 26th 2009 9:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/
There is a fair and ample amount of coverage of Windows 7 on Engadget. Personally, I've ran Win7 RC on my PC for awhile, and I won't be giving Apple $30 to upgrade my Mac to Snow Leopard. But talking about Windows 7 is mere fodder for flame-bait; and irrelevant to the subject at hand.]]>Aug 26th 2009 9:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/Aug 26th 2009 9:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/How is talking about Windows 7 irrelevant? A new product comes out and people automatically compare it to what it's competing against. Do you expect people in a post about the Zune HD to say nothing about iPods? A X360 post to have nothing about the PS3? Do you not understand anything about personal opinions?]]>Aug 26th 2009 10:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/Aug 26th 2009 10:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/
It's 'irrelevant' because Windows vs Mac 'personal opinions' have never amounted to any level of intellectual conversation and always degrade to fanboi stupidity. Using your example. How often are Xbox vs Playstation fanboy conversations worth reading, or iPod vs Zune conversations? Never.

Why can't we talk about the product or review at hand for once without obvious stealth trolling. And this goes for both sides.]]>Aug 26th 2009 10:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/Aug 26th 2009 11:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/Aug 26th 2009 11:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/
What the hell?]]>Aug 26th 2009 11:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/Aug 26th 2009 11:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/
Thats nice.

At $30, you can't even buy the extra crap needed to get other UNoperating systems to actually operate day-to-day with simple out of the box features humming along in 64bit mode, less you go Linux, but then again where's the support. I'll have to compare with Ubuntu's latest offerings. But $30 bucks!? Antivirus or (you can only pick one) EZ backup software addons aren't even that cheap.

Sounds nice over all.]]>Aug 26th 2009 11:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/
yeah, it has a lot to do with the EU. it's not a big deal though, i think they're all included in a Live Apps package that gets picked up by Windows Update.]]>Aug 26th 2009 11:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/
Once Windows 7 is released, I'll have a full retail copy of Windows 7 running under boot camp with Snow Leopard running as the normal OS on my Unibody MacBook Pro. It'll be nice to have both.]]>Aug 27th 2009 12:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/Aug 27th 2009 12:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/Aug 27th 2009 1:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/
you know... you can delete those icons on your desktop. and if you've ever bothered to look a pic of Win7, you will see that you can load up the new taskbar with a larger version of all your program icons (just icons, no text), it's pretty similar to how OSX does it. of course you can turn that off and use the taskbar the old way too.]]>Aug 27th 2009 1:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/
Hey, it's me, not OS X.]]>Aug 27th 2009 1:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/
LOL, you have a MBP, but your going to forego the Optimized OS and Optimized Drivers for your hardware: read OpenGL drivers 'that just work' for Microsoft/thirdparty drivers.

Its pretty sad if Bootcamp driver's do a better job then the native OS drivers. But thats Windows, 'its open'. LOL]]>Aug 27th 2009 2:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/
Windows Vista and 7 both come with DVD codecs out of the box. I haven't used a third party DVD player software in years. If you choose to get Windows Live Mail, that come with spell checker as well as IE 8 and pretty much any other browser. Windows 7 Home Premium will also have Shadow Copy and it's own back up system software. So all the features are there. The one thing I would say is restoring files is not as easy with Shadow Copy than Time Machine simply because it isn't as easy to get to. However, once you know what to do it is pretty easy.]]>Aug 27th 2009 3:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/
Actually I'm going to forgo the 'optimised drivers' in favour 'applications I use that run better or indeed at all' under Windows.

]]>Aug 27th 2009 6:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/
Exactly what 'optimised drivers' are required for a Foxconn (or is it ASUS?) board, a standard Core 2 Duo, DDR3 RAM and an nVidia 9400M? You know, the same components you get in most high end notebooks?

Oh and it's a late 2008 unibody Macbook, not an MBP, plus, since we're being pedantic - and as you're the guy who always bitches about the lack of a spell checker in Windows I think we should be - it's "you're going" not "your going". Shame your platform doesn't have a grammar cheker, isn't it?]]>Aug 27th 2009 8:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/
If OS X is not as good as Windows then why buy a Macbook in the first place when you could buy a PC. You always keep saying how Mac are expensive.]]>Aug 27th 2009 10:44AM