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Apple To Ship Mac OS X Snow Leopard On August 28
okapi writes "Apple announced that Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard will go on sale Friday, August 28 at Apple's retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers, and that Apple's online store is now accepting pre-orders."
Like Leopard, but so cool all of it's precipitation has frozen into crystallized ice flakes.
Pretty soon, Apple is going to run out of cats to name their OS X versions after. How many are left? When are they going to stoop to calling a new version "Housecat"?
Good point. Do us a favor and post here after you install it so the rest of us know whether it's safe?
the truth is we are literally swimming in pussy
See, I changed one letter, an 'n', for another, an 'l', as a way of making fun of the new release of Mac OS... I don't have any real reason for thinking it's slow, and it's not like I really have anything against Snow Leopard (apart from the fact that I, myself, am not interested in running Mac OS X any more) - it's just fun to make fun of it.
iSee.
I don't even know what this new OS does that would make me want to get it. Literally. Did they at least make some tweaks to the UI to make it seem different from the previous version? I only upgraded to Leopard in the first place because I lost my Tiger disk and couldn't get bootcamp installed. I actually got Leopard on the day it came out and had to wait in line outside the apple store like some sort of jerk who was enthusiastic about that sort of thing.
And that was the last Terry Fox run I ever participated in.
The only feature of Snow Leopard that looks at all interesting is the hanzi/kanji input on the trackpad...But since I rarely use my laptop OPEN (I run in clamshell mode to an external monitor most of the time), even that is not particularly useful to me.
I don't even have a trackpad, because I use an iMac. I'd probably have to buy an external trackpad to take advantage of this feature.
Come to think of it, I'd also have to learn Japanese.
- RG>
Hey pal, this isn't a pleasantforest, so don't waste my time with pleasantries!
...but still, I can't see myself pre-ordering.
So it broke your webcam too?
They're changing thedefault Gamma from 1.8 to 2.2???? Hell just froze over!!
I'm a laptop user, you fucking cunt.
I don't want to drag portable HDs with me all the time, and what you fucking yanks call Internet connectivity is anything but.
"There are many reasons to upgrade to Snow Leopard, for example a major one for some people will be Exchange support,"
pfft. Windows has had decent Exchange support since at least Vista SP1.
Articles? None.
Users? Seven, and proud of it! Each of them starts out signaling that they're trolling by saying "it's not a troll, but I'm about to bullshit some serious bullshit."
And I have never had this issue with Windows. I've used various versions of Windows on multiple computers for years, with no such troubles. Just wait? How long should I wait, exactly? The only slowdown is when I run Itunes.
Ah that's right - anyone claiming to have an experience otherwise is obviously a "troll".
Why is my anecdote not valid? Or is this a case of sticking your head in the sand if it doesn't concur with your preconceived assumption?
Perhaps the mod points should be given out to those who use them properly for a change.
It wouldn't surprise me if they bring out "OS X 11" or something dumb like that.
It will be called OSX 2.
How much you gonna be paying for Windows 7 just to make Vista work properly? ;-)
What part of "a well regulated militia" do you not understand?