Comments on: Mac OS X Snow Leopard to arrive in Q1 2009?

By: Kelly Hodgkins

Kelly Hodgkins — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:41:12 +0000

@EvilHomer
you’re right I definitely wrote for the wrong audience. You all are far more technical than the average user. thanks for keeping me on track!

By: Evilhomer

Evilhomer — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:24:18 +0000

@Kelly: Gotcha. I did notice that you qualified your remarks in parentheses from the “users perspective” and you are probably correct in assuming the average or casual Mac users won’t notice a difference. However, the “average” user isn’t really BGR’s audience.

By: Kelly Hodgkins

Kelly Hodgkins — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:43:40 +0000

@eric
my mistake. I was writing wwdc but thinking of that special event in september. my mistake for writing and not really thinking about what i am writing. I did fix it. thanks for letting me know.

@Evilhomer
I only said relatively minor to the user as the average user wont notice the more substantial enhancements under the hood. Most people, pc and mac users alike, don’t even know what a gpu is, never mind care that gpu will be handling the graphics processing. I did not mean to underplay the changes and thereby seem to be promoting microsoft and/or vista.

By: Evilhomer

Evilhomer — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:53:24 +0000

Anyone thinking that Snow Leopard is a minor upgrade doesn’t know their stuff. This is not a “for looks” upgrade, like Vista. This a core OS change and is going to KILL.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:17:01 +0000

This story doesn’t make any sense. First of all, WWDC was in June. That’s the START of Summer, not Fall! So “about a year” means “about June. End of 1st quarter is three months before that. Let’s not mention the bad math about Leopard coming out in Oct 2007 and Snow Leopard arriving by March of 2009. That’s not two years by any stretch of the imagination.

Microsoft said Win7 is coming the middle of 2009. So what is Apple doing? Getting ahead of Microsoft to get the release of Snow Leopard out.

Yes, it appears to be a minor upgrade to the interface and applications that come with it, but it’s a major upgrade in many ways, Quicktime X being a big one. Plus offloading processor load to the GPU should be pretty cool too.

By: MadMike

MadMike — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:40:17 +0000

References:

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/11/03/apple_puts_further_2008_mac_updates_on_ice.html

http://www.macworld.com/article/136528/2008/11/appleproducts.html?lsrc=rss_main

By: MadMike

MadMike — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:37:41 +0000

@GS: While that was a circulating rumor, Apple has publicly stated that their holiday lineup is complete. The soonest you will see an update would be Macworld in early January.

However, by years end – I am sure you will see a slew of rumors about the possible releases slated for Macworld 2009.

I personally am hoping for a 17″ MacBook Pro based on the new “brick” architecture. Then hopefully 10.6 will allow the support of 8GB on the new laptops.

I already have my money in a special savings account gaining interest to buy a new MBP.

By: GS

GS — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:16:46 +0000

Well this doesn’t come as a surprise. I heard from a very reliable source (Apple insider) that the new IMac’s will be announced by year’s end, so an update is expected!!!!

By: MadMike

MadMike — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:12:10 +0000

Not to sound like a glaring Mac/BSD Fanboy but the entire evolution of Mac OS X should serve as a lesson to Microsoft. Mac OS 9 and prior, for lack of a better term, sucked gangrenous deer nuts. I was always a fan of Nextstep – to the point that I even used WindowMaker on my XFree86 rigs almost exclusively (after the bloody death of Enlightenment) until BlackBox wm came out.

Microsoft should take a look at what Apple is doing. They rewrite the entire OS from scratch based on OpenBSD. The release more frequent updates for 1/3rd the price of what M$ charges – which means they make 3x the money. Also, take a look at Snow Leopard. A release that serves to clean up the OS.

Microsoft should do a complete rewrite, from scratch. Give us a pure 64bit OS that natively supports as many processors and cores that you cna throw at it. Give us the new relational journaled file system and the new administration scripting language. Make a FUNCTIONAL OS instead of stupid eye candy.

By: Dtest54

Dtest54 — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:01:12 +0000

“relatively minor upgrade (from the user’s perspective at least)”

and thats the problem with consumers wanting them to rush out OS’s. I for one do not think its a minor upgrade and think that fine tuning and fixing things is hardly minor. Its not like its been 5 years since they released Leopard. Good writing but stupid sentiments.