Snow Leopard ships friday!

[isal]

Mac OSX 10.6 is shipping Friday. One can pre-order on Apple's website!

[Abominogg]

Can't wait! I also can't believe it's only 29 bucks!

[acosmichippo]

i'm excited. i'll be selling my MacBook Pro, and ordering a Mac Pro.

W00t.

[Europa]

Preordered and expecting arrival before high noon Friday :)

[Youngbinks]

I'll be getting the family pack for my MBA and the iMac. Can't wait.

[Lincoln]

Ordered the family pack yesterday. Definitely looking forward to this.

[up10ad]

The Family Pack is a real bargain, even with only 2 systems. It gets even better if you have 3 or more.

[iphonewarrior]

I've pre-ordered also. The price is jaw-droppingly low ;)

I'm a happy customer

[JWiPhone]

I just bought my very first Apple computer, the MacBook Pro 15 inch 2.66 Ghz for $1799, no tax and free shipping.
I will order the $9.95 Snow Leopard. I can't wait. I'm kinda teary eyed, excuse me!

[isal]

Arrrggghhhh, I feel so jealous seeing you guys order. My bank lost my Credit Card in the mail. I'll have to go to the Apple Store on Friday and get it. :(

[coasts]

Arrrggghhhh, I feel so jealous seeing you guys order. My bank lost my Credit Card in the mail. I'll have to go to the Apple Store on Friday and get it. :(

isn't that more fun anyway? i'm planning to hit the 24 hour 5th Ave store on my way to work on Friday.

[Saverino]

Wasn't Leopard only $29? Or am I way off?
Personally, I'm not too excited for Snow Leopard.
Maybe I haven't payed enough attention to it...

[Youngbinks]

Wasn't Leopard only $29? Or am I way off?
Personally, I'm not too excited for Snow Leopard.
Maybe I haven't payed enough attention to it...

A BB Storm user WOULD say that. :dft012:wink


And I have no idea how much Leopard was.

[Saverino]

A BB Storm user WOULD say that. :dft012:wink


And I have no idea how much Leopard was.

Thanks for reminding me to update my sig. :ok:ok
The Storm is long-gone. Has been for a while now.

[Youngbinks]

Thanks for reminding me to update my sig. :ok:ok
The Storm is long-gone. Has been for a while now.

Ah nice. I'm helping a friend "jailbreak" his now. Let's see how this goes...

[acosmichippo]

Ordered my mac pro today.

!!!

[Youngbinks]

Nice! What kind of specs did you get?

[acosmichippo]

2 x 2.26 quad core xeon processors
6GB memory
640 GB hdd
nvidia Geforce gt120

basic specs for the 8-core version. I will be adding to it
over time.

[Youngbinks]

Very awesome. What kind of monitor set up are you going to run? Dual?

Do you get a free iPod?

[acosmichippo]

Yep, got a free iPod.

For now I'm going to stick with the 23" monitor I have until my bank account can recover a bit... But eventually I will definitely get another for dual monitors.

[starfish]

Can't wait! I also can't believe it's only 29 bucks!

SAME HERE, and the price point is perrrfect~~

[Abominogg]

A BB Storm user WOULD say that. :dft012:wink


And I have no idea how much Leopard was.
I believe Leopard was 129, for any flavor.

[JWiPhone]

SAME HERE, and the price point is perrrfect~~

even more perrrfect at $9.95.

[Abominogg]

even more perrrfect at $9.95.You get that upgrade price because you recently bought a mac, right?

[isal]

2 x 2.26 quad core xeon processors
6GB memory
640 GB hdd
nvidia Geforce gt120

basic specs for the 8-core version. I will be adding to it
over time.

Wow! Congratulations!!

[isal]

You get that upgrade price because you recently bought a mac, right?

Yep! I think it's if you bought a Mac after June 25th.

I'm not sure about the date though.

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

Ordered my mac pro today.

!!!

That's what I want eventually.

[isal]

That's what I want eventually.

I want one too! Only if it wasn't $3000!. I guess I'll have to wait for a year or so.

[acosmichippo]

I can't wait to get it. I've reformatted my MacBook in anticipation of selling it, so I'm
currently computerless.

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

No, you're not; you still have your iPhone!

[Europa]

Winning the $5999 valued Stealth MacBook Pro tomorrow night would be nice...
http://tweetblast.taptaptap.com/

[chris]

Interesting to see if I have less beach balls. Ordered through Amazon about a month back, hoping they deliver it earlier than the estimated delivery date.

[up10ad]

I swear I get more never-ending beach balls than I ever got BSODs. I'm looking forward to it, and then to my Win7 64 bit install on my quad-core Dell with 6GB. Both will be fun.

[Europa]

I do know what BSOD is, but what's a never ending beach ball?

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

I do know what BSOD is, but what's a never ending beach ball?

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w20/Gathomblipoob/6b407a29.jpg

[Europa]

Thanks. Interesting. I never really had a problem with Beach balls until this week. Had to force quit several times. I ran Applejack yesterday and it seems to be resolved. Hopefully Snow Leopard will decrease them.

[up10ad]

I got a Fed-X delivery notice from Apple and Fed-X says it will be delivered today, Thursday!

[Hondamaker]

I got a Fed-X delivery notice from Apple and Fed-X says it will be delivered today, Thursday!Get it yet, Rick?

[Europa]

I got a Fed-X delivery notice from Apple and Fed-X says it will be delivered today, Thursday!
Well, we all know how those early deliveries went with the 3GS ;)
I bet they'll hold it until tomorrow.

[acosmichippo]

My guess is a lot of people will be disappointed due to the lack of bells and whistles that leopard was loaded with. I think the benefit of snow leopard will come when developers get used to using Open CL for multi-threaded programming. THEN we should see a lot less of the beachball.

[connie]

I really don't have a beach ball complaint, I don't get it a lot either. But very excited about tomorrow. $49 for my macbook and imac was great!! Fed Ex is holding my package for delivery at facility until tomorrow :(
why can't they just make us happy and deliver it early!

[Europa]

Because it's illegal and they don't want to get hit with a huge fine from Apple :dft012:wink

[JWiPhone]

You get that upgrade price because you recently bought a mac, right?

Yes, I just ordered a new MacBook Pro. If you bought a new Mac on or after June 8th then you can order the Snow Leopard for $9.95 which is to just cover the shipping charges.

[up10ad]

Well, we all know how those early deliveries went with the 3GS ;)
I bet they'll hold it until tomorrow.
Yep, they delayed it and it is now scheduled for Friday.

[connie]

I jinxed myself, I have had several beach balls this evening!!!

[gary88]

I thought they were pinwheels?

Anyway, going to pick it up right now.

[Woody1776]

Snow Leopard installing.......hurry up!

[Hookem99]

Installed! Seems a bit quicker. So far So good!

[Bitewound]

Installing now- got treated to a
mini concert by Journey at the CBS morning show studios right next to the 5th ave Apple store - would have taken some video or photos but it was raining and I'm paranoid about the stupid water sensor:rolleyes:

[gary88]

Installed it, everything is great. Finder is much faster.

What really surprised me is I now have an extra 20GB of HDD space! I heard reports of about 7GB being the norm, but damn.

Before:
http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af175/gheb882/Picture2-1.jpg

After:
http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af175/gheb882/Screenshot2009-08-28at11136PM.jpg

[Abominogg]

Installed it, everything is great. Finder is much faster.

What really surprised me is I now have an extra 20GB of HDD space! I heard reports of about 7GB being the norm, but damn.


Cool. Can't wait to get it this weekend!

[gotzaiPhone]

I never checked to see how much HDD space I got back, but I noticed the obvious, i.e black popup for dock icons, new quick time, ect... and I noticed my screen color settings defaulted differently and thats apparently due to the default gamma being upped from 1.8 to 2.2. Other than that, all seems to be working well.

[Europa]

Installed it, everything is great. Finder is much faster.

What really surprised me is I now have an extra 20GB of HDD space! I heard reports of about 7GB being the norm, but damn.


It freed up less than 2 GB for me. Not complaining, just saying...

[Maaz]

hey guys do i have to erase my HDD or can i have all the same stuff without backing up and install the new OS?

[acosmichippo]

You should be able to upgrade with your current installation, but I would recommend backing up your data just to be safe.

[styfle]

I freed up 8GB. I checked right before I installed and right after. I would have taken a screenshot, but I thought it would be less than the 7GB Apple was claiming.

[Youngbinks]

Finally got around to installing Snow Leopard this morning. I had quite the gain in HDD space.
http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p91/youngbinks/BeforeSL.png
http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p91/youngbinks/AfterSL.png

[acosmichippo]

Wow, that's awesome.

I just installed it for a customer, and while I didnt play with it at all, it did shut down in less than 5 seconds. THAT is awesome.

[Lincoln]

I got back almost exactly 20GB of space - very welcome. I've also noticed a significant speed boost in a lot of areas. So far so good.

[styfle]

Wow, that's awesome.

I just installed it for a customer, and while I didnt play with it at all, it did shut down in less than 5 seconds. THAT is awesome.
My macbook has been shutting down in about 5 seconds with normal leopard, but after installing SL, its about 3 seconds. I'm sure once developers start updating to 64 bit, this baby is gonna fly. I timed all all the core apps (opening them) and they are all about 25-50% faster when opening for the first time after booting (except itunes lol).

[Youngbinks]

Here are the gains on the MBA. Not so much.
Before:
http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p91/youngbinks/Picture7-1.png
After:
http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p91/youngbinks/Screenshot2009-08-31at10919AM.png

[Europa]

Does anyone know why the amount of space it frees varies so much? I know it calculates it different so a before and after isn't really an accurate representation, but I haven't heard of anyone that had less space freed than me. I had less than 2 GB freed.
Does it have anything to do with disk cleanup? I run Applejack at least once a month to keep it tip top.

[acosmichippo]

What kind of mac have you got?

[Europa]

October 2008 13.3" Unibody MacBook 2.4 GHz, 250 GB HD.

[acosmichippo]

Hmm... From what I understand SL not only shrinks system files down, but it also erases a lot of unnecessary junk in application packages - stuff that Leopard doesn't even need. So I guess it's possible that if you used a 3rd party file optimizer in Leopard, you may have had this partially done already.

[danipoak]

I had just slightly over 10 gigs freed up :D The only hiccup I've found since installing is now whenever I use copy and paste in MS Word it freezes. So weird.

[Europa]

I had just slightly over 10 gigs freed up :D The only hiccup I've found since installing is now whenever I use copy and paste in MS Word it freezes. So weird.
MS Word is one of the programs that still needs to be updated to work properly with SL.

[JWiPhone]

Wow, I installed Snow Leopard last night and how easy that was. I'm so use to going through all the setup steps with Windows installations. I had 277 GB of hard drive space on MacBook Pro before installation and after Snow Leopard installation I had 304 GB. What amazed me was the shut down time. I clocked it at 3 seconds. Unbelievable. I love it!!!

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

I do like the easy installation and fast bootup of OSX.

[styfle]

I do like the easy installation and fast bootup of OSX.
My bootup seems longer from about 35 seconds to 45 seconds now. My shutdown decreased from 5 to 3 seconds lol. And of course all the core apps like ical and mail open way faster.


@Europa
My guess is that you already cleaned out a lot of junk with Applejack and the only thing SL removed was the PPC support and printer drivers.

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

I'm hoping to get Snow Leopard installed on my PC in the next few days (fingers crossed). I just updated my motherboard, and even then I had hackint0sh compatibility in mind. :ok:ok

[Europa]

My bootup seems longer from about 35 seconds to 45 seconds now. My shutdown decreased from 5 to 3 seconds lol. And of course all the core apps like ical and mail open way faster.


@Europa
My guess is that you already cleaned out a lot of junk with Applejack and the only thing SL removed was the PPC support and printer drivers.
Those printer drivers should be at least a few GB's though.

[styfle]

So that was probably the 2 GB you saved lol

[Europa]

I saved around 1.5 GB. They should be at least 3 or 4 GB AFAIK.

[styfle]

I saved around 1.5 GB. They should be at least 3 or 4 GB AFAIK.
Well then something is seriously wrong.