“Apple doesn’t need to make a vista-sized leap on Friday, when it migrates from its Mac OS X Leopard operating system to Snow Leopard,” Edward C. Baig reports for USA Today. “In the nearly two years since Leopard pounced onto the scene, it has elicited a far different reaction from the Mac faithful than Windows Vista has with the PC crowd.”
“Snow Leopard should delight Mac fans, especially those who use Exchange at work. Leopard users can upgrade to Snow Leopard for just $29 (or $49 for a five-computer license), compared with the $129 it cost to go from the OS X Tiger to Leopard,” Baig reports.
MacDailyNews Note: Please see: Apple’s $29 Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard disc installs just fine on Tiger Macs – August 27, 2009
Baig continues, “Apple says there are hundreds of refinements and performance-boosting new technologies built into Snow Leopard, but many are under the hood. For example, Snow Leopard can make better use of the graphic chips in today’s computers. It can also take advantage of the ’64-bit’ processors now built into all Macs, so applications will be able to make the most out of the processor and memory on such systems.”
“In my experience, Mac OS X was already a superior operating system to Windows,” Baig reports. “With Exchange and other technologies, Snow Leopard adds bite, especially for business. But as upgrades go, this one is relatively tame.”
Full review here.
MacDailyNews Take: And as reviews go, this one is relatively lame. Read Pogue’s and Mossberg’s Snow Leopard reviews if you want any real information.
“Apple doesn’t need to make a vista-sized leap on Friday”
You mean to its death?
“A vista sized leap” is no leap at all.
MS puts lipstick on a pig and all the reviewers are gushing over what a great new operating system MS created. Yet, other than the lipstick the pig is fatter, slower, and takes takes instructions less well. Oh yeah, and MS charges $300 for the lipstick.
Apple doesn’t need any lipstick because Leopard is such a fine looking beast to start with. Instead, Apple spends its time making its cat faster, slimmer, and smarter. Oh yeah, and Apple only charges $29 bucks for their work.
Now why the hell is Apple criticized for this?
@84:
You’re exactly right. However, whether we Apple fanboys want to believe it or not, for the near time at least the world we live in (generally) a Windows world, and an old expression sums it up: “perception is reality.”
Windows 7 will be praised by the general press as the greatest advance in an OS ever attained by man. The “general press” does seem a little less willing to swallow the M$ party line these days, but we aren’t “there” yet, where M$ OSs are seen as they really are.
Snow Leopard is much less a “Giant Leap Forward” as a retrenchment. This has been the Gospel According to Jobs for maybe a year and they’ve done their best to make as many improvements as possible without adding many “features”. THE Major Update is that they have stopped looking back and are looking only forward.
Does this make it “tame”? It would certainly make it LOOK … on the surface. The Revolution is happening under the skin, not on the surface. Dig deeper, dude.
Oops.
LOOK tame …
sorry.
Here here 84, well put indeed.
It’s kinda depressing after the amount of refinement that Apple have put into Snow Leopard, for the “Shallow Hals” of this world to look at the surface only and claim “minor upgrade!”.
Beauty is only skin deep but Snow Leopard has added a new depth to Leopard that Windows Vista SP2 (windows 7 (6.1 internally)) could only dream to do.
And the M$ fanboys claim that Apple is only about look, feel and image. Pot->kettle guys, really!!!
And meanwhile Microsoft’s internal version numbers for Windoze 7 is — drum roll, please — 6.1. As in “NT 6.1” That’s right, folks, Windoze 7 is really Windoze NT 6.1 according to Microsoft’s own devoper documentation! (Operating System Versioning)
Under-promise, . . . over-deliver.
I’m getting the same kind of ticklish feeling I got when Steve was explaining that they were opening the gates to the iPhone desktop with the Software Development Kit. Six months before the 3G and App Store I knew that the heavens were going to open and the light would come pouring in. It was going to be a bloodbath.
64 bit goodness is apparent right off the bat with Snow Leopard. Just wait until developers start writing their apps for this, . . . and Grand Central, . . . and Open CL.
I expect that Adobe will eventually have 64 bit CS5. That should be a game changer. As the Apple Pro apps start changing over, I believe Apple will have wrapped up the high-end market, . . . desktop and laptop. Like the iPhone, Macs will be in a class of their own. There won’t be any true competition.
Mine has just shipped. Got an Email today!!!
> MacDailyNews Note: Please see: Apple’s $29 Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard disc installs just fine on Tiger Macs – August 27, 2009
MDN: You should NOT be promoting the idea that you can upgrade from Tiger to Snow Leopard for $29. It may work, but it is not a legal installation. You can also use the $29 disc to upgrade all of the Leopard Macs in the family, instead of paying for the $49 family license. Or you can use that $29 disc to upgrade as many Macs as you want, period.
Apple trusts users to do the right thing, so there is no copy protection. MDN should not be encouraging users to do the wrong thing. Doing so is equivalent to what Psystar does… “Hey, I paid my $29 for the disc, so I can do whatever I want with it.”
I immediately stop reading any Mac article if I come across the words ‘Mac faithful’.