Mac OS X Snow Leopard Discussion

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I must say I hope it runs on my OSx86 Hackintosh (Leopard runs beautifully on it). :devil: I do have a Macbook but it's sitting here gathering dust. The battery is dead (after 190 cycles), and I really hate its 950 GMA Graphics, the animations are not as smooth as they were in Tiger, maybe Snow Leopard will address this?

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Wasn't it only free to existing customers, though? I believe those who were new to the Mac paid $129 for Puma.

Exactly. Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah was barely usable. It was slow, unstable, lacked basic functions (it even lacked disc burning from what I remember, could be wrong though) and buggy. Mac OS X 10.1 Puma was basically set to fix all of that.

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Exactly. Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah was barely usable. It was slow, unstable, lacked basic functions (it even lacked disc burning from what I remember, could be wrong though) and buggy. Mac OS X 10.1 Puma was basically set to fix all of that.

Only people using OS9 had to pay $129 for it didn't they? Didn't they pre-load it on any new machines?

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Later that year on September 25, 2001, Mac OS X v10.1 (internally codenamed Puma) was released.[64] It had better performance and provided missing features, such as DVD playback. Apple released 10.1 as a free upgrade CD for 10.0 users, in addition to the US$129 boxed version for people running only Mac OS 9. It was discovered that the upgrade CDs were actually full install CDs that could be used with Mac OS 9 systems by removing a specific file; Apple later re-released the CDs in an actual stripped-down format that did not facilitate installation on such systems.[65] On January 7, 2002, Apple announced that Mac OS X was to be the default operating system for all Macintosh products by the end of that month.[66]
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I would imagine that it would automatically install no problems if you have hardware which was launched after Leopard shipped. Which would be easy to accomplish with Serial Numbers which include exact week/month and new models which were obviously launched after Leopard.

And if you have a machine that launched before Leopard they will probably ask for the Serial Number from your boxed copy or like Rudy says ask you to insert your Leopard disc to confirm that you did indeed have Leopard.

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See, this makes me wonder about Snow Leopard...would I be able to do a clean install with it?

I imagine it will work exactly the same as those CPU Drop-in DVDs for Macs that still have an older Mac OS X version installed after the new one is already out. As such it will run a check if Mac OS X Leopard or higher is installed on your Mac after which the Installer will start. You'll be able to do an Erase & Install, Archive & Install or Upgrade.

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so anyone install the Preview yet? I am curious about performance and first impressions.

Someone provide me with a copy and I'll be happy to let you know... :D

It just so happens I have an old "BlackBook" lying around with a dead battery, but still works fine when plugged in via AC. The hard drive is large and empty, and I was planning on making it a dedicated "Snow Leopard Test" machine.

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I'm on it now. First impressions: blazing fast. The rewritten cocoa/multi-threaded Finder is pretty noticeable as it sports some nice tweaks and subtle animations throughout. (both in the finder windows and desktop).

I don't think Dock Expose is included in developer build though yet.

Will post full impressions later.

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I'm on it now. First impressions: blazing fast. The rewritten cocoa Finder is pretty noticeable as it sports some nice tweaks and subtle animations throughout. (both in the finder windows and desktop)

I don't think Dock Expose is included in developer build though yet.

Will post full impressions later.

Can you post the new quicktime icon????

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