“It’s easy to take for granted how rapidly Apple upgrades Mac OS X with meaningful new features. After all, with Friday’s Snow Leopard release, the world’s best desktop OS will have seen its fifth major leap forward in the same time it’s taken Microsoft to add only Vista and the promise of Windows 7 (I know it’s coming soon, I’m just impressed Apple’s beaten Microsoft again),” Pete Mortensen writes for Cult of Mac. “Three days from the next great version of the best great thing, here are 10 reasons why you should upgrade to Snow Leopard.”
10 reasons why you should upgrade to Apple’s Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard:
10. It’s Leopard Perfected
9. It’s only $29
8. You’ll add six gigs to your hard drive
7. Smarter Stacks and Expose
6. It’s fully 64-bit, so buy 17.2 billion gigs of RAM!
5. Killer Multiprocessing with Grand Central
4. Unleash the Power of Your GPU With OpenCL
3. Native Exchange Support
2. QuickTime X Restores What the Tech Was Meant to Be
1. Because You, Like Me, Are a Gigantic Apple Fanboy or -girl
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Brawndo Drinker” for the heads up.]
But what do us iMac G5 owners do? 🙁
One Word
Snow
@ jim
one word and it’s glorious: UPGRADE!!
All these articles make it sound imminent.
@Jim,
buy a new Mac. Duh.
i know i know. Not everyone can upgrade because they are PPC owners. but as you can see, apple is planning to use Intel for a very long time. It’s an investment. Craigslist is calling you to sell your G5 and upgrade. If times are tough, you as a Mac owner know that your machine is still very capable of getting the job done.
@Jim – unlike all the snots above who apparently always have at least $600 of disposable income handy, I heartily suggest you keep using Leopard, because even after Friday it will still be a great OS, and your G5 will still be a great computer. I imagine Apple will still be supporting Leopard and PPC with updates to iTunes, Safari, etc for some time – hell, you can install install those on a G3 with Tiger!
Oh, and if you want to get one of the benefits of Snow Leopard – freeing up several gigs of hard drive space – I suggest you use a program called Monolingual. It will allow you to delete all the language files you don’t use as well as delete all the Intel binaries from your universal apps that will never get used.
@Jim
Your iMac G5 will still be as good as it was yesterday. My MBP is getting upgraded on Friday, the Quicksilver will still carry on…. for years to come.
Jim. You’re going to be dead a long time, so DO IT NOW!
And you can still install Leopard on (practically) all G4s (with a bit of help from Leo4All).
@Predrag
I have Leopard on 2 G4s without any extra software.
@jim,
Two years ago in our house we had a G5-dual processor, a couple of G4 imacs and a couple of G3 iBooks.
We now have a Mac Pro, two Intel Mac Minis and a couple of MacBooks. Yes we are all Intel.
There is no reason why a G5 cannot make a nice file server or a decent website test machine. So you’ve no need to chuck it.
But it’s not that expensive now to own an Intel based Mac so bite the bullet dude and upgrade. You’ll love it, My G5 looked just like my Mac Pro (sans an optical drive bay) but it’s ten times quieter
There is a rumor that the iMacs will be refreshed soon, with “compelling” new features, and they’ll be loaded with Snow Leopard. Also today, rumors of new MacBook line
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/08/25/apple_to_retain_redesign_plastic_macbook_family.html
Apple to retain, redesign plastic MacBook family
so us G4/5 laggards will be tempted to upgrade very soon
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Here’s my reason: I have been an Apple Certified for almost 15 years and I need to get certified in it!
It was reason #1…the others are nice too though.
@Jim
You had about 4 years to upgrade. Can’t say you didn’t see this coming.
why would I upgrade four years ago when it was brand new?
I would love to buy a new imac, but they probably wont come out for a few months.
Since when is a new imac $600, try $2000+ for the 24inch
Does anyone have to buy a new flat screen or car when the new models are released? Then why do some resent that their current, perfectly functional PPC Mac is less desirable given the inability to exploit the latest Leopard?
Note: Not all of us will be able to take advantage of the Open Cl because we don’t have the requisite hardware. My own iMac – purchased summer of 2008 – doesn’t have it. Ask me if I’ll lose sleep over it.
“It’s fully 64-bit, so buy 17.2 billion gigs of RAM!”
Great. Now I am sittingin a huge @ss pile of chips and open up my Macbook and guess what? there isn’t room in there for 4 billion memory chips! liar!
I have no idea how snow will make more room in the case, but i am waiting for this upgrade Apple, show me the space…
@Jim –
You are right, no reason to upgrade four years ago when it was new. If your G5 gets done what you need done today, then leave it alone.
However, it’s not $2000 for an iMac unless you want it to be. 20″ iMacs can be bought refurbished for under $1k. 24″ iMacs are available NEW for $1499 (retail). I think what the other writer was suggesting is since most G5 iMacs are worth $400-500 on Craigslist, the upgrade price is close to $600.
That’s what I was going to do with my kids’ G5 iMac, but instead it’s going to the in-laws to replace a beige G3
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Please remember people that three year old Macs are unlike PC’s still very usable machines, so they are worth more than the disposable $399 Dells on the back page of Parade Magazine.
My iMac is now 3 1/2 years old and I’m just waiting for a new model before I make the plunge and upgrade to 64-bit goodness. And it is true, a good chunk of that price for the a Mac is made up by selling your old one, which carries a lot of value.
However, after having Snow Leopard on this baby, I could probably skip even the next revision and wait a little longer. Snow Leopard makes the system feel so much, uh, snappier!
List is somewhat bogus.
Stupid.
what does Native Exchange Support mean? mail, ical, etcs will be synced with outlook?
shen … et al
H E L L . Y E A
“17.2 billion gigs of RAM”
Michael … NOW we talkin’ S N A P P Y
AND … got a spare Office Building sitting empty with a LOT of power available
Hook that Mo Fo Up …
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And di ….
Naw, helps us Trade Wampum with any Algonquins