Snow Leopard (or Mac OS 10.6)

[Libra Monkee]

It starts shipping on the 28th for $29. But you can preorder it now.

Would you like to know more?

[chicken n waffles]

i've been reading good things about it. guess it might be time to pony up the loot for a macbook.

[Mr Kleen]

I went ahead and pre-ordered this morning. it seems more like a Service Pack than something you should have to pony up $30 bucks for, but then again it is Apple we're talking about.

[complacent]

I went ahead and pre-ordered this morning. it seems more like a Service Pack than something you should have to pony up $30 bucks for, but then again it is Apple we're talking about.

if by service pack you mean recompiling every native app, drivers and the kernel to run on a 64-bit platform, then yes... it's a service pack.

[complacent]

i've been reading good things about it. guess it might be time to pony up the loot for a macbook.

If you want to do it on the super cheap, snag a mini 9 or 10v off dell's site or fleabay. They've just about got everything in the gold master running properly on that little dinker of a netbook.

edit: http://mydellminiforums.com has a pretty active community that is into hackintoshing. worth checking out.

[Sabre]

I went ahead and pre-ordered this morning. it seems more like a Service Pack than something you should have to pony up $30 bucks for, but then again it is Apple we're talking about.

if by service pack you mean recompiling every native app, drivers and the kernel to run on a 64-bit platform, then yes... it's a service pack.

Yep, read about it this morning. It's their move to 64bit, so quite a large one. I'm hoping they have the problem resolved with it not booting into 64b mode out of the box (except on Xserve) worked out before shipping it! Kind of funny that you can hold down 6 and 4 while booting it to force it into 64b mode

[Libra Monkee]

OS X6 comes packed with antivirus software, maybe.

If the online chatter is to be believed, Apple's very soon to be released Snow Leopard has in its code new protection for fighting malware.

Would you like to know more?

[Libra Monkee]

Also, Amazon's got the Cool Cat for $24.99 with free shipping.

Would you like to spend less?

[complacent]

Updated list of changes/additions/revisions/etc found here.

It's pretty substantial.

[Sabre]

Much more substantial than I originally though!

[Mr Kleen]

Much more substantial than I originally though!

but Randall C. Kennedy sure isn't impressed...

[complacent]

Much more substantial than I originally though!

but Randall C. Kennedy sure isn't impressed...

I guess my first rebuttal to the rather, ahem, passionate Mr. Kennedy would be this: If 10.6 is so derivative of 7 and 7 is merely Vista R2 (his words), why's 7 so expensive? Jackass.

fanbois will be fanbois, regardless of their particular affliction, right?

(yes, i'm well aware that it goes both ways.)

[Mr Kleen]

no doubt. that guy had one or two good points wrapped up in a big bag of fanboy bile.

[Libra Monkee]

Just preordered my copy of White Cat from Amazon.

[Mr Kleen]

if I understand Steve Jobs, my copy should be here tomorrow. looking forward to my first MAC upgrade.

[complacent]

For those taking the plunge, please make sure you check out the program compatibility list and the printer compatibility list.

There are some big s/w products with specific version compatibilities and incompatibilities. This will help save some grief.

[Libra Monkee]

Phew! Alarm Clock will still work.

[complacent]

A twenty three page review over at arstechnica is "the biggest review of a $30 product ever." and very much worth a read if you want to read about all the little things (filesystem enhancements, etc)

w00t?