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Yeah, it's not spectacular. Lets put it this way - it's not as good as having Natalie Portman sat on your face, but it's also a whole lot better than a naked Jimmy Saville.
I recovered the better part of 10gb on my disk and I like the little ui tweaks. In terms of speed, it seems a tiny bit quicker and I think more improvements will be forthcoming. A lot of the improvements are there to enable progress, so once devs start using opencl and grand central's multicore functions it should show its worth.
Took 35 minutes to install as an upgrade.
Err holy cows it's quick on an SSD. The speed at which applications are opening/closing and generally functioning is a lot quicker.
In 32 bit mode all the apps I've got seem ok with the upgrade. Once Xcode 3.2 is installed I'll try the 6+4 fingered salute!
Err holy cows it's quick on an SSD. The speed at which applications are opening/closing and generally functioning is a lot quicker.
In 32 bit mode all the apps I've got seem ok with the upgrade. Once Xcode 3.2 is installed I'll try the 6+4 fingered salute!
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I've noticed that, even snappier than before.
Only true irritation i've noticed so far is that if you open a folder before you set the default icon size to something you like it doesn't change to the default, which wouldn't be so much of a problem if the default wasn't super chunky.
edit: also you can no longer manually select printer drivers on the install, its either detected, detected + common or all.
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on my late 2008 macbook its definitely speeded things up mail and safari are quicker and safari you get less beach ball on java heavy pages. Not sure it was worth £25 but hey its faster so im happy, if i go into system monitor you can see what apps are running in 64bit by the intel(64bit) in the kind, most but not all are 64 bit
Upgraded previous installation on 2008 imac 24" yesterday and everything went without a hitch. The ui improvements are cool, particularly expose now is much easier to find what you're looking for. Stacks are also much more useful and better at opening large numbers of items. Native apps do indeed much feel snappier. Safari seems much faster, for example the top sites feature is instant when opening a new tab and page rendering seems very rapid. Finder is quicker to launch and opening large directories of images for example is noticeable.
Is it worth it? I'd say for enthusiasts and power users, why not? I speculate if it had been possible to upgrade leopard by software update that Apple wouldn't have made it a free upgrade. Certainly the price of €30/£25 seems unlikely to generate huge revenue but seems a round figure that covers packaging, transportation, point of sale, what little promotion there has been, etc.
Is it worth it? I'd say for enthusiasts and power users, why not? I speculate if it had been possible to upgrade leopard by software update that Apple wouldn't have made it a free upgrade. Certainly the price of €30/£25 seems unlikely to generate huge revenue but seems a round figure that covers packaging, transportation, point of sale, what little promotion there has been, etc.
lmao interesting way of putting it
mmmm Natalie, guess what just got deliveredhas there been any word about improvements on the ati 4850 in the new imacs ???? would be nice to see more fps
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I reckon with all the changes under the hood that 10.7 (or even OS X 11.0 as it may turn out to be!) is going to be an equivalent change as OS 9 to OS X was.
Apple have something planned. Mark my words.
Apple have something planned. Mark my words.
you reckon they have held stuff back from this release for the next one then ?? guess they would but sucks for us
Annoyingly my MBP 3,1 which has a C2D, Santa Rosa (+4GB), and EFI64 is refusing to boot into 64 bit mode. I've tried the 6+4 press, the Boot.plist and the nvram commands but SL just continues to boot into 32 bit.
I may do a complete fresh install - remove all the old kext such as the m-Audio, Reason etc. Just incase that's causing an issue.
Supposedly, from research - everything would work except Apple decided that the 64bit starts with 4,1..
I may do a complete fresh install - remove all the old kext such as the m-Audio, Reason etc. Just incase that's causing an issue.
Supposedly, from research - everything would work except Apple decided that the 64bit starts with 4,1..
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Doesn't really make sense - OS 9 to OS X was about a fresh start because OS 9 sucked.
Well mine arrived this morning to my surprise, I thought it was going to be next week. People seem to be a little underwhelmed but for the £8 I paid for it I shouldn't have any complaints.
Going to install it after I finish my brew.
Going to install it after I finish my brew.
My Macbook is doing exactly the same, I tried an upgrade install first and then a wipe HDD and fresh install but no joy yet.
I'm giving up for now as I have loads to do for the rest of the weekend....