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Apple's sleek upgrade
- dzlobin 17y agoI've read about snow leopard but this is a fairly clear representation of just how much faster and smaller OS X should be with snow leopard
- cakesy 17y agoLooks nice, but I have CS3, and i am not going to pay for CS4. So looks like I am going to skip this one.
- sfphotoarts 17y agoAccording to this http://www.pcworld.com/article/170843/adobe_responds_to_snow_leopard_cs3_compatibility_claims.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/170843/adobe_responds_to_snow... CS3 works fine on Snow Leopard.
- cake 17y agoSame here, there is no stable version of 1Password yet for Snow Leopard. It's the first time I don't feel in a hurry to upgrade, I mean snapiness is great but if it's in the same range as the 10.5.x upgrades, it can wait. I havn't heard anyone saying he was really really impressed by how faster Snow Leopard is.
- chrisbolt 17y ago1Password works fine in Snow Leopard with some small tweaks: http://www.switchersblog.com/2009/06/getting-1password-to-work-on-snow-leopard.html http://www.switchersblog.com/2009/06/getting-1password-to-wo...
- dcheong 17y agoFor non-subscribers: Page 1 - http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/technology/personaltech/27pogue.html?_r=1&ref=technology http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/2... Page 2 - http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/technology/personaltech/27pogue.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1 http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/2...
- windsurfer 17y agoThank you!
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- MikeCapone 17y agoYou haven't read the article, eh? Pogue says: "Techie note: Popular conception has it that the space savings comes from removing all the code required by those earlier chips. But that’s not true, according to Apple. Yes, that code is gone, but new 64-bit code, described below, easily replaces it. No, Apple says that the savings comes from “tightening up the screws,” compressing chunks of the system software and eliminating a huge stash of printer drivers. Now the system downloads printer drivers as needed, on demand."
- Timothee 17y agoOne thing I have always done when reinstalling a Mac (rare) is not install those printer drivers. There's something like 1.3GB of them. Make the printers plug-and-play is great but that was just insane. I'm glad they're removing this.
- taitems 17y ago"Buggy plug-ins (Flash and so on) no longer crash the Safari Web browser; you just get an empty rectangle where they would have appeared." Yeah they nailed this one... It's a good article, Leopard seems pretty impressive (half the size, twice the speed etc) but the author is very easily impressed.
- mcav 17y agoI will be thrilled if Flash stopped causing Safari to crash. I'd be even more thrilled if Flash didn't make the CPU fans roar like a jet engine.
- wheels 17y ago> 64-bit software, a geeky term that, for now, pretty much means “faster.” Ouch. In general there's way too much fanboyishness in this article. I mean, seriously, it closes on a note of, "You can't see any improvements so JUST IMAGINE how much they've done under the hood!"
- brandnewlow 17y agoCan someone explain what it does mean? Every time I download a Windows update and it asks me to pick from one of 10 options to download, I get angry. How am I supposed to know what bit of Windows I'm using?
- wheels 17y agoWhat 64-bit means? This is a good start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit#Architectural_implications http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit#Architectural_implicatio... The most obvious improvement is that 64-bit programs can address more memory -- more than 4 gigabytes of virtual memory in the same process. The less obvious bit that sometimes makes things faster is that when an x86_64 CPU is running in 64-bit mode it has access to more registers (basically the ultra-mega-low-latency memory for numbers and memory addresses and stuff that everything computed must pass through). However, since pointers to blocks of memory are twice as large on 64-bit programs and many programs use lots of them, 64-bit programs usually use more memory, which means that there are more cache (the slightly less, but still ultra-low-latency memory that's between the registers and usual memory) "misses" -- i.e. things have to be grabbed more often from main memory, which relative to registers and cache is slow ... meaning that it eats some of the performance benefits of the extra registers. In a nutshell, 64-bit programs are different. They're not "faster". The difference in bit-width really isn't something that makes a lot of sense if you don't know how CPUs work and can't be reduced to "faster".
- bbb 17y agox86_64 == more registers available than on i386 more registers == fewer spills For the average compiled program, fewer spills == faster. => Average programs run faster under x86_64.
- dkokelley 17y agoOff topic, but: There are hundreds more little tweaks. In all, Apple says that more than 90 percent of Leopard’s 1,000 software chunks were revised or polished. Many are listed at bit.ly/U1DzS bit.ly/U1DzS > http://www.apple.com/macosx/refinements/enhancements-refinements.html http://www.apple.com/macosx/refinements/enhancements-refinem... That's a NYTimes fail, in my book.
- dzlobin 17y agoI'm sorry, am I not seeing it? Where's the fail
- erso 17y agobit.ly/U1DzS
- dkokelley 17y agoThe fail is the fact that they used a link-obscurer/shortener for no benefit to me. Even the text around it doesn't give me any hint that I will be going to apple.com. The location isn't extraordinarily long, so it wouldn't have necessarily damaged the page layout, and they could have easily coded the link inside the text 'Apple's website', which would have given me a lot more information, and helped me in my decision to explore that link. Finally, the link isn't even clickable to me. I had to copy it into the address bar. I don't believe link-shorteners are inherently evil or destroying the internet, but seriously, why use them in an article like this? How does it help anyone (me, specifically)?
- csallen 17y agoI'm glad I'm not the only one who caught this. Who puts a shortened, unclickable link in a news article?
- alaskamiller 17y agoWhen the online version is a copy of the print version.
- jsz0 17y agoOne of the neatest features of SL I've found so far is the changes to the Services menu. It's now context sensitive so it will only show the services that are applicable to the data you have selected. Select text and you get text services. One of these text services is the ability to select any text and export it to iTunes as a spoken word track using the OSX speech synthesizer. I've been using it to select long articles, export them to iTunes, and sync them with my iPhone to listen to in my car. The OSX speech synth is good enough that it's a fairly pleasant experience.
- johnfn 17y agoIs it just me, or does this come off as an advertisement more than an article?
- GHFigs 17y agoIt reads like any other newspaper technology column I've ever read.
- Tichy 17y ago"The menu bar can now show the date, not just the day of the week." Oh joy, oh joy!!!! Maybe I am going to upgrade after all (this really bothered me).
- gcv 17y agoMacPorts Snow Leopard compatibility list: http://trac.macports.org/wiki/snc/snowleopard http://trac.macports.org/wiki/snc/snowleopard I'm pleasantly surprised that, of all the things I care about, only ghc is broken.