Macintosh OS 10.6 Snow Leopard

[ElectroGhandi]

I do not see the point of netbooks. The way I see it, either your mobile device fits in your pocket or it doesn't. So you're going to have to get some sort of carrying case for your 10" netbook, right? So why not get a proper 15" computer?

[VTECaddict]

Tiger was a great OS...


...for PowerPC computers.
If you've got an Intel Mac, you have no excuse not to have Snow Leopard.
But in all seriousness, Leopard runs like shit on a 1.25GHz PowerPC processor.

There's not really a compelling reason to upgrade, unless you absolutely love the new Exposé or something. OpenCL and GCD promise improved performance, but current apps don't take advantage of that yet. The reasoning to upgrade is basically...its $30, so why not?

The annoyances have outweighed the "improvements" for me. For example, if you have it set to require password on screensaver resume, it now require a password when you resume from display sleep too. That's highly annoying, especially if you have it set to display sleep in like 5 mins to save battery power. They also changed Automator's "Filter Finder Items" action so that it no longer has the option to filter by "does not include". Also, the "New Folder" action now errors out if the folder already exists. Leopard's Automator would use the existing folder if it exists, or create a new one if it doesn't. I used Automator to batch resize images in Leopard, and now I can't recreate that workflow in SL. I don't know if they are bugs or intentional changes, but annoying as hell. The biggest disappointment of all: still no hot GPU swapping for the unibody MBPs with dual graphics cards. People assumed it was some sort of limitation in Leopard, and would be fixed in SL, but no...

All that plus the random HDD activity that lags the computer, slower Spotlight, slower app performance (mainly MS Office) has made me regret upgrading. I'd revert back to Leopard if I didn't have to wipe and reinstall everything.

[VTECaddict]

I do not see the point of netbooks. The way I see it, either your mobile device fits in your pocket or it doesn't. So you're going to have to get some sort of carrying case for your 10" netbook, right? So why not get a proper 15" computer?

I would venture to guess a lot of netbook buyers have a desktop PC as their main computer. A netbook gives them the portability they want to maybe take to class and take notes, or take on a trip somewhere. They don't need a full-on laptop because they have the desktop for main use, so a full laptop would be a waste of money. Although there are some low end laptops that come close to netbooks' prices....I guess at that point the portability/hype of the netbook wins over. I don't see the point of a netbook for someone who already uses a laptop as their main computer though.

[watkins]

Large screen laptop is the way to go. Netbooks are pretty damn stupid for what I want and need to use a computer for, but there are so many dumb people out there who can barely figure out how to use a word processor. The less theyre capable of f*cking up, the better. Netbooks minimize the stuff-f*ck-upping quotient of computer ownership.

[ElectroGhandi]

Netbooks minimize the stuff-f*ck-upping quotient of computer ownership.

It's the indirect result of netbooks minimizing what you can do at all.

[watkins]

Direct, not indirect. If people can do something, someone will f*ck it up. The only way to stop this is to remove things.

[watkins]

TWO buttons on a mouse? WHAT?!?!?! People can never handle something as complex as this!

[watkins]

Im too lazy to make the picture, so you can imagine:

MADNESS? THIS IS APPLLLLEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[RITmusic2k]

Yeah, if Apple made a car, it would be gorgeous, only come in white, and have one pedal for brake, gas and clutch.

[1974Alfa5spd]

Yeah, if Apple made a car, it would be gorgeous, only come in white, and have one pedal for brake, gas and clutch.

Well, white, black, or titanium. And for a small charge you can have it custom engraved.

[RITmusic2k]

And it will be smaller than the competition, but Apple fanatics will see that as a feature. And it will generally only accept fuel from Apple gas stations. Other cars can fill up there too, but they need a special adapter.

[RITmusic2k]

Nah, with the Apple car it can turn right and left at the same time, and Apple will claim that it turns right better than the Windows cars can

[mtheis]

If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:

1. For no reason at all, your car would crash twice a day.

2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you would have to buy a new car.

3. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left-turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, and you would have to reinstall the engine.

4. When your car died on the freeway for no reason, you would just accept this, restart and drive on.

5. Only one person at a time could use the car, unless you bought 'Car95' or 'CarNT', and then added more seats.

6. Apple would make a car powered by the sun, reliable, five times as fast, and twice as easy to drive, but would run on only five percent of the roads.

7. Oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single 'general car default' warning light.

8. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.

9. The airbag would say 'Are you sure?' before going off.

10. Occasionally, for no reason, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key, and grabbed the radio antenna.

11. GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of road maps from Rand-McNally (a subsidiary of GM), even though they neither need them nor want them. Trying to delete this option would immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50 percent or more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the Justice Department.

12. Every time GM introduced a new model, car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.

13. You would press the 'start' button to shut off the engine.

Oh, and:

Snow Leopard has a fatal bug that deletes all a user's data. To trigger the bug you log into the Guest account and then log back into an admin account. A number of users are reporting that all settings are reset and most of the data gone. Apple is aware of the bug and is working on a fix. In the meantime it is suggested that a non-administrative account be created with the name Visitor or something similar and be used instead of the Guest account, which is a special built in account which wipes all of its settings clean upon logout.

[VTECaddict]

Oh, and:

Snow Leopard has a fatal bug that deletes all a user's data. To trigger the bug you log into the Guest account and then log back into an admin account. A number of users are reporting that all settings are reset and most of the data gone. Apple is aware of the bug and is working on a fix. In the meantime it is suggested that a non-administrative account be created with the name Visitor or something similar and be used instead of the Guest account, which is a special built in account which wipes all of its settings clean upon logout.

Not quite. The bug is only if you had a Guest account enabled in Leopard, then upgraded to Snow Leopard. After the upgrade, if you log into your Guest account, then log out and log back into your main account, your stuff is gone. But it still doesn't happen to everyone that has done the above...not really sure what triggers the bug.

If you didn't have a Guest account in Leopard, then it doesn't affect you. If you did a clean install (erase and install) of Snow Leopard, then it doesn't affect you. If you bought a new Mac that already came with Snow Leopard pre-installed, then it doesn't affect you.