Comments on: Who will buy OS X ‘Snow Leopard’?

By: Danyal

Danyal — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:59:18 +0000

“All the problems with Leopard”?!

In six months of use, Leopard has never crashed for me. Not once!

And neither have I never been knifed in London.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:08:15 +0000

@Roberto: I was a member of the “rival camp” in the 80s in that I had an Atari ST! But I know what you mean about the Amiga. It was way ahead of its time.

By: Roberto

Roberto — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:24:21 +0000

What I do know is that I still prefer to use my old AMiga OS than modern OSs, because it is faster, customizable, enjoyable and smart.
I heard that the future of the hardware is a “multi chip approach”, exactly like Amiga did many years ago (the innovative chipset was amazing). Even though modern computers are thousand times more powerful than my Amiga, I dont have the same feeling under the keyboard. It is the different b/w smart things and stupid things…
I sent a bunch of emails to Jobs just to say that My AMiga was les powerfull than his iPod, but it was able to do incredible things, I hope he got my message…

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:27:40 +0000

“Grand Central” is a huge deal. If they can make it easy for developers to write their programs can utilize multicore processors to their true potential the Mac will be the fastest platform on the planet. (I have an 8-core mac pro. You’d be amazed at how many programs can only utilize 1 or 2 cores. And it’s true on the windows side too.) Open CL may be a big deal too, for the same reasons.

By: swede

swede — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:10:54 +0000

what if apple just waits and sees? Charging for a upgrade of snowleopard (what we know today) could seem offencive yet Who knows what Vista version 2 will cost Or if vista ver.2 will be a service pack because MS has some goodwill to catch up with. Maybe apple do to. I want the feeling that my hardware performance is used as effectively as possible when i buy an OPERATING system… kind of why i bought it in the first place.

Apple would create a buzz if snow leopard was free for new mac buyers and a downloadable upgrade from Itunes (updating Iphone is done through Itunes - hence why i say iTunes as possible fuure updating channel) or apple software update application for existing OSX users.

For hackinhtoshes - A expensive DVD…which they will buy regardless and it will be on torrent with in the hour, but not all the wannabie hackintoshes wants the hassle of torrents.. they will simpply en up buying a mac and be done with it. it ’s the total package deal and it’s sweet. Also, I’d like to see a free year of “mobile me” included at purchase, adding even more value to bying a mac.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:44:48 +0000

@Gerald: That would be a very cunning move indeed on Apple’s part!

By: Christiaan

Christiaan — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:00:25 +0000

“Ours” being a architect’s firm.

By: Christiaan

Christiaan — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:58:34 +0000

We will probably peg an upgrade of all our Quad Power G5s, to new Mac Pros, on Snow Leopard’s release.

By: Gerald

Gerald — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:41:43 +0000

Remember when 10.4 Intel was only with new hardware? I think 10.6 will do the same. No boxed retail version at first, and no mention when/if there will ever be one. (Apple doesn’t comment on unannounced products.)

Imagine the uproar! Instead of people complaining about paying for a featureless upgrade, Apple will have the press/blogosphere begging to buy it.

I can hear the digg comments now: “Apple is forcing me to torrent it!!” and “This is to put Psystar out of business!”

Followed by: “Hahahaa! My Hackintosh can do what you sheeple Applehaeds cant! Let Steve Jobs bend you over again! LOLZ!”

Then when it does come out (@ $129), slashdot will congratulate itself on making Apple bend.

Meanwhile, Apple makes record profits seven years in a row.

By: mathue

mathue — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:35:58 +0000

I will only buy it if it works with my G5s, none of them are anywhere close to retirement age.