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I'm not an early adopter either, but after going through and polling a ton of people who use similar apps as me (which go way beyond just music and into graphics, web design, interactive design Second Life, and lots more) and ensuring complete compatibility and lack of bad-assed bugs, I'll probably pony up for Snow Leopard in the next couple of months.

 

Theoretically, it looks great. But I'm not "theoretically" changing an OS, know what I'm saying?

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I just installed Snow Leopard, and amazingly, everything is working including my audio, video and graphics apps. Parallels 4.0 also works without a problem.

There is hardly any noticeable difference in the UI and it doesn't seem any different than 10.5.8 except for some new Dock graphics. It's OK for the price of $29, but I don't think it would have been worth $100+.

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I just installed Snow Leopard, and amazingly, everything is working including my audio, video and graphics apps. Parallels 4.0 also works without a problem.

There is hardly any noticeable difference in the UI and it doesn't seem any different than 10.5.8 except for some new Dock graphics. It's OK for the price of $29, but I don't think it would have been worth $100+.

 

 

All of the major changes are under the hood. Take a look at that specs page to see what you're getting.

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Did a super duper clone of 10.5.8 and updated the copy.

All my apps work, Logic 9 works just as it did before, I don't see any difference in performance. Just Logic AU manager scanned all the plugs again and they all passed.

FYI Logic 9 is still a 32 bit app, so you will still see the "out of memory" box when you push her.

Come on Logic 9.01 (64 bit).

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I'm still on 10.4.

I really love the idea that a software designer stops, takes a breath, and simply tweaks and streamlines what they already have.

A few years back I took a "Software Reliability" course at the U of Washington, taught by a couple of incredibly intelligent software/safety/military folks. It was interesting to me at the outset that a lot of the class members were from the medical field (my background is explosives). One of the key concepts of the course was that software doesn't exactly have a "reliability", but more importantly it becomes "brittle" (love that term) the more it is modified and advanced (their extreme example was the flight software for the Navy's F-14 aircraft; 14 million + lines of code!).

Sounds like Apple, with Snow Leopard, may have taken their current system requirements, and streamlined how it takes place, putting a lot more robustness into the code.

But that's only conjecture on my part... :D

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It sure is. 10.6, Snow Leopard.
:)

And $29 is the upgrade price only if you're already running Leopard. I think it's $129 to upgrade from an earlier OS.

 

Well I went ahead and ordered it but I don't know if I'll be brave enough to install it when it gets here. For me Digital Performer 6 is the all important app because I use it live. MOTU has a spew about Snow Leopard on their website but it's not clear if DP is good to go.

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I have a 10.5 disk that I never bothered to install. Still running 10.4. I don't need or want to use most of the peripheral applications stuffed into OSX.

 

 

The difference between 10.4 and 10.5 is like night and day for those of us accustomed to right mouse button functionality.

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I'm still on 10.4.

I really love the idea that a software designer stops, takes a breath, and simply tweaks and streamlines what they already have.

A few years back I took a "Software Reliability" course at the U of Washington, taught by a couple of incredibly intelligent software/safety/military folks. It was interesting to me at the outset that a lot of the class members were from the medical field (my background is explosives). One of the key concepts of the course was that software doesn't exactly have a "reliability", but more importantly it becomes "brittle" (love that term) the more it is modified and advanced (their extreme example was the flight software for the Navy's F-14 aircraft; 14
million +
lines of code!).

Sounds like Apple, with Snow Leopard, may have taken their current system requirements, and streamlined how it takes place, putting a lot more robustness into the code.

But that's only conjecture on my part...
:D

 

Supposedly people are finding they have ~5gb more free space *after* the install. Apparently it streamlines a lot of bloated stuff on the OS

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It sure is. 10.6, Snow Leopard.
:)

And $29 is the upgrade price only if you're already running Leopard. I think it's $129 to upgrade from an earlier OS.

 

It's ten bucks if you purchased your Mac on or after June 8th. Unfortunately, I purchased mine on May 7th. Figures, huh? :lol:

 

Oh well - it's only thirty bucks. Once Pro Tools is compatible, I'll probably upgrade. Other than for the forums, this computer isn't really all that mission critical, and my main DAW is a PC.

 

As far as being jazzed about it or not, if it makes things run faster and utilizes the C2D CPU better, and takes less hard drive space, that sounds good to me. :cool: I'm not sure what the 64 bit limitations will be on my Macbook4,1 - it's a 64 bit CPU, but has the X3100 graphics, so there might be limitations due to that. I'm not sure if the system will accept more than the 4GB of RAM I have in it - I suspect that's a motherboard / chipset issue more than just a OS issue, so I doubt it.

 

But like I said, since the beta reports seem to be generally positive, and it is probably going to take a while - I'm guessing a month or two - to get PT LE support, I'll probably upgrade once Digi has that available - assuming the initial stability reports are good.

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I guess somebody's excited. I think I've received about a dozen press releases in the past week from audio manufacturers announcing that their products were compatible with Snow Leopard.

 

Frankly, I wouldn't use a computer that names its operating systems like that. And I don't.

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Frankly, I wouldn't use a computer that names its operating systems like that. And I don't.

 

While I agree that their OS naming system is less than intuitive, that hardly seems like enough reason to not use it at all. :idk: YMMV. (FWIW, I use both Macs and PCs).

 

Eventually though, they're going to run out of big cats. :lol:

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Eventually though, they're going to run out of big cats.
:lol:

I suppose that's more creative than OS-X, that you're supposed to know to pronounce "Oh-Ess-Ten." Though I guess Snow Leopard is still a 10.something. Wasn't there a just plain leopard a while back? Or was that for some other computer? Or the name of a DAW, music program, or synth?

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I suppose that's more creative than OS-X, that you're supposed to know to pronounce "Oh-Ess-Ten."

Is that really how you're meant to say it?

 

Folks in my office are probably chuckling away behind my back if it is, cos I've been saying "oh-ess-ex" the whole time... :facepalm:

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