Well, Snow Leopard is here. I — like millions of other users — upgraded my Macs yesterday to 10.6. Snow Leopard is a curious release. It doesn’t introduce a lot of end-user features, but rather, is a refinement of what was already there — for the most part. Installation After 9 years, Apple has changed the install process [...]
MacInTouch has a page up dedicated to Snow Leopard issues found by readers. There’s also a very lengthy page up on wikidot regarding Snow Leopard and third-party apps. It’s this kind of stuff that makes me love the hardcore Mac population so much.
A must-watch for any geek.
From Mark Jardine at TapBots (the creators of the excellent Convertbot iPhone app) has written about their recent App Store rejection: We’re no strangers to silly app rejection emails from Apple, but this one seems to take the cake (at least in our opinion). Convertbot 1.4 was rejected because our icon for Time is too [...]
Topher Kessler over at MacFixIt has posted an article on installing Snow Leopard, and it reveals some interesting changes: Inserting the Snow Leopard DVD I double-clicked the install icon, expecting to have it reboot to the DVD as all other OS X installations have required. This was not the case with Snow Leopard, which instead [...]
Apple has previously stated that while Leopard users simply need to purchase the $29 DVD to upgrade their machines to Snow Leopard, Tiger users with Intel machines needed the $169 Mac Box Set to upgrade. As a bonus, those users get iWork ’09 and iLife ’09 as well. It seems that the $29 Snow Leopard [...]
Engadget’s Joshua Topolsky: Here’s the thing about Snow Leopard, the single inescapable fact that hung over our heads as we ran our tests and took our screenshots and made our graphs: it’s $30. $30! If you’re a Leopard user you have virtually no reason to skip over 10.6, unless you’ve somehow built a mission-critical production [...]
AppleInsider: Once rumored for extinction, Apple’s entry-level polycarbonate MacBooks are on the verge of a refresh that will solidify them at the base of the Mac maker’s notebook offerings for the foreseeable future, AppleInsider has learned. People familiar with Cupertino-based company’s plans say the 13-inch portables are presently undergoing an industrial design overhaul that will [...]
Jason Snell: Snow Leopard is Apple’s lowest-priced OS update in eight years. Granted, it’s a collection of feature tweaks and upgrades, as well as under-the-hood modifications that might not pay off for users immediately. But the price of upgrading is so low that I’ve really got to recommend it for all but the most casual, [...]
According to this very helpful chart.
