Snow Leopard: hidden features
Ivan | Sun, 2009-09-06 00:34Check out this video from Matt from www.macosxtutorials.com about what have changed in Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) compared to Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5).
Have you already made the jump? If so, how is it working out for you? If not, what's stopping you?
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Is it really worth the upgrade?
From what I read the speed benefits are significant and there are not many if at all issues so far.
I'll be honest with you. The speed increases are significant in Safari, Mail and iCal. The Finder is a bit speedier, and the few new features are nice. But you shouldn't lose a moment of sleep if you decide not to upgrade. It simply isn't that spectacular.
Until more apps take advantage of 64-bit processing, and all the other under-the-hood features of Snow Leopard, it's really nothing more than a few new doo-dad features to the OS.
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After the install I fully agree with you.
One huge improvement for me is that working with a large number of files is much-much faster now.
It's so great!
The guy in the video should really sit down and think about what a "feature" is, in my book the finder resizing and coverflow resizing is not a new feature ... that's what you call a tweak.
I upgraded to Snow Leopard the day it came out and I'm pretty happy with it. You get a bit disappointed afterwards because there is really nothing new to play with. However the small refinements are nice. Expose seem to be evolving naturally and I really like it being built into the dock.
Like Jim pointed out a lot of the apps feel snappier. Personally I'm waiting for the iTunes rewrite. I want to see what Snow Leopard can do for iTunes. It's an app I've grown to dislike, I think it tries to do to much and just need to be rebuilt from the ground up. I see the little beach ball in iTunes on a daily basis. My understanding is that it hasn't been rewritten yet, but why might see it next week with the new iPods. Hopefully a rewrite for 64-bit can make it run properly.
The only thing I can say Snow Leopard broke is mySQL, but that's not a big problem for me at the moment.
Upgrading to 10.6 has given my 2 year-old MacBook Pro a new lease of life. Everything feels just that little bit faster and snappier, as if I'd upgraded my machine.
For our production Macs, there are still too many applications that either don't run or are not 100% stable. For us, Cinema 4D v11.5, Motion 4 and AfterEffects CS4 are the reasons that we're still running Leopard.
Interesting video, but if you actually watch the Keynote presentation, the resize icon and "put back to trash" features were demoed there.
As for Snow Leopard, it feels clean and fast, but many 3rd-party apps have not updated their Preference panel to a 64-bit version. So what you gain in speed in other areas, you lose when System Preferences has to restart in 32-bit mode every single time you want to make a change to those particular apps. I have tried to seek out 64-bit replacements for all the ones I use and get varying responses from "not a priority right now" (MySQL, Startup Sound, GamePad companion), through "we have one in development" (Growl, Wacom Pen Tablet) to "Here's a beta version" (Flip4Mac). The only 64-bit 3rd-party pref panel I could find was Perian, so props to them for working ahead of the curve.
Additionally, several 3rd-party apps that used the input manager simply do not work under Snow Leopard. In my case, this means Chax (which allows you to unify your various iChat buddies lists in one single window), Letter Opener (which allows you to open MS Outlook meeting requests) and Scribe (the handwriting recognition software that comes with Wacom graphics tablets) are now completely broken.
THANKS!
How about VMWare? Is it broken?
I don't know why Apple didn't "sync" the launch of SL with other "giants" softwares/drivers developers approval. Can't imagine an Apple machine with stability problems with Adobe applications or with Hardware makers like HP.
These ordinary SL bug issues prove us that Steve Jobs need to make deep changes at headquarter.
How we can't drop files into PS icon on dock anymore? It's simply unbelievable what they're doing with Steve's company!
They're maybe protecting SL from illegal distributing that could spride from developers but now the insatisfaction is 100% from consumers that bought a product that crashes and need a patch download.
For why I'll receive from Apple an SL Update bugged Disc? I think we need a recall. It's simply outrageous.
Ronaldo! xD
qwertyale,
I just dragged a picture onto my Photoshop CS4 icon in my Dock and it opened up like it always has.
Outrageous what they are doing to Steve's company :p
Hey make us a movie :) and publish at youtube!
Ronaldo! xD
It seems as if there are always problems and kinks in new technologies. The upgrade may be worth it in the end once the get it all worked out and up and running properly. Casino en ligne gratuit
I have upgraded to Snow leopard and have been using it for a few days.
So far I haven't encounter any real problems.
Software that I'm running are:
Firefox 3.52
Opera 10
FontExplorer X Pro 2.02
Adobe CS4
Adobe Lightroom2
EOS Utility
Adium
Office 08
Parallels Desktop 4
MAMP Pro
Evernote
Dropbox
SynergyKM
Growl
Only two small issues with SyergyKM and Growl Mail plugin at first.
They are now working with latest beta builds.
Oh Synergy status is not showing in the menu bar, but other than that it works fine.
The OS feel much faster. I'm enjoying it.
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im in the video business and i use a product called the "duel adapter" to offload my P2 cards (PCMCIA) to my macbook pro. there currently are no (nor are there any currently announced plans for) snow leopard drivers for that adapter...
so im a "no-snow" for the forseeable near future
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Thanks for the video
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très bonne vidéo merci beaucoup
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