Comments on: Why Snow Leopard Matters

By: Debbie21

Debbie21 — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:22:55 +0000

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can somebody tell me I can instill “Snow Leopard” on to my MacBookPro
it is safe…if I go into search engine “FREE DOWNLOAD SNOWLEOPARD, for 10.4.11 verzion

By: Håkan Folkesson

Håkan Folkesson — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:56:32 +0000

Yes, I sort of felt that at the end of my ranting. Sorry if anybody felt diminished by my puke. I’m just a bit dissapointed right now about Snow Leopard. I hope to be a bit more happy about it soon:-) I still love Apple very much.

By: Kris Jones

Kris Jones — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:25:21 +0000

Håkan, the article was written in June, about features that ‘might’ be included in Snow Leopard. There was no opportunity for the author to test Snow Leopard back then.

By: Håkan Folkesson

Håkan Folkesson — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:58:45 +0000

After installing Snow Leopard on my Mac Book Pro (July 2008) 2.4GHz, 2GB RAM, 200GB 7200RPM Drive, I can no longer have 9 spaces open. it totally gives me “the circuswheel of hell” all the time. 4 spaces is about what it can manage. Safari is much slower. I have been forced to take away the “Top Sites” feature in preferences to not have to wait for a minute before a new tab comes up after hitting the +. Also the “Top Sites” feature loaded for a few seconds with old images from the image cache from Preview.app in a distorted way before going right. Imediately after I had installed Snow Leopard my battery changed status from fine to “Service Battery” (on 96 cycles).
This article above is not much more than a sales pitch and I think that is sad.
How about a little more integrity for your authors? Some more testing and investigating what you write about?
Anyway, I’ve had Macs now for 13 years and my next computer will also be a Mac.

By: Kris Jones

Kris Jones — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:48:55 +0000

Jake, Rosetta hasn’t been dropped. It’s an optional install.

By: Jake Brown

Jake Brown — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:43:17 +0000

While I can see dropping Rosetta support is a bit of a bummer to some, there are maybe a handful of apps that I still use that have to run on Rosetta, so to be honest I’m not that upset, that maybe because I can just use them on my G4 though. In reality I would rather have the 7GB of HD space as well…

By: Kris Jones

Kris Jones — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:40:40 +0000

Indeed, that appears to be confirmed by yesterday’s article on Snow Leopard installation from Appleinsider.com: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/08/12/sources_detail_changes_to_snow_leopard_installation_process.html

I imagine that will be welcome news for those with legacy PPC software, and for those without.

By: ScottNYC

ScottNYC — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 01:23:28 +0000

rosetta is included in snow leopard, when you install you have to manually check it so it gets installed, by default the box is unchecked. While your at it uncheck language translations to save some space.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:54:46 +0000

I make most of my income from preparing income taxes using a program I wrote in Excel. The program runs very fast on any PPC Mac or Intel Mac through Rosetta & Excel 2004. The program runs like a dog when run under Excel 2008. I’ve tried alternatives to Excel 2004 & non of them do a very good job. Many formulas are lost , formating is lost, & various other problems including print areas changing. For these reasons I can not operate without Rosetta on my Intel Mac. That means that Snow Leopard OS 10.6 can not be installed as a working OS.

With the largest 2 groups of apps being universal, Office 2008 & CS3? & 4, Apple may assume that there is not enough need for Rosetta. They have a history of cutting out many technologies before the Mac Users are ready.

By: Kris Jones

Kris Jones — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:37:30 +0000

@Jon. Thanks for taking the time to respond and for that clarification.