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.

By: Jon Buys

Jon Buys — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:32:03 +0000

@Kris I’m not quite as well informed as I’d like, but hopefully not misinformed either! I’m afraid that this entire conversation went in a completely different direction from what I intended. I did reply to your post earlier, I think this conversation is the result of a poor choice of words on my part.

I expect Rosetta to be included in Snow Leopard, but of course we don’t know either way. The point I was making is that by stripping out the universal binary code out of the bulk of the operating system, Apple is saving a lot of disk space.

I was referring to the universal binary code as “Rosetta code”.

By: Kris Jones

Kris Jones — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:00:32 +0000

Earlier in this thread I asked if the author could confirm where he heard that Apple intended to removed Rosetta from Snow Leopard. It was the first I’d heard of it and I’ve seen no such information elsewhere. I’m sure if Apple had removed it then there would have been some feedback from the developers who’ve tested Snow Leopard (despite their NDAs). I remain very doubtful that Apple intends to remove it.

Either Jon Buys is extremely well informed or woefully misinformed. It would assist if he could confirm which.

By: mhenr18

mhenr18 — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:43:08 +0000

CS3 was universal or Intel-only for some apps. CS2 needed Rosetta on Intel Macs – CS3 is Universal.

@lawson, I just realised that. Life will be great if we can just check the Windows box and compile for 99% of computers. Then Apple WILL rule the world.

By: David

David — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:06:43 +0000

Shawn – Thanks very very much – great to know.

The vector art is Freehand 5 – so I’ll save all old files as EPS. I don’t understand what the loss of Rosetta means? Perhaps it’s best that I buy my new iMac now before Snow L is installed and Rosetta disappears?

By: Shawn

Shawn — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:06:12 +0000

@Dave, No worries. EPS or PS files are not inherit to the chip running. In fact, you can cross platform an EPS or PS all you want. Take an 8 year old EPS from Illustrator 5 and you will be able to open it in CS3 on an intel Mac. Clients have given me some really incredible old EPS files (mainly vector logos) and all went off without a hitch.
I am however, VERY concerned about the possible loss of Rosetta. I still prefer CS3 in some of the apps in the Suite, and would really like to be able to run them.
Apple and Adobe are kind of in bed together these days, and it does make sense to dangle a cool new OS over our heads while pushing us to upgrade to newer versions of apps as well. Makes sense, but not cool.

By: Lawson English

Lawson English — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:44:00 +0000

The killer technology to be released with Snow Leopard is actually QuickTime X for *Windows*, not Mac OS X.

Why? Because unless Apple forks development, QuickTime X will include Cocoa libraries for Windows, which means that literally 10′s of millions of Windows users could become targets for Mac OS X application developers quite rapidly–anyone using QT or iTunes would receive automatic updates for this capability, making it a-no brainer for developers to simply check off another “target” in xcode.

This may not happen any time soon, but once QTX is released for Windows, the possibility for a “Yellow Box” for Windows finally appears 10 years after it was first described.