An opinion article at APCMag: "The focus of Snow Leopard is on core upgrades, not shiny new features. A bedrock focused update that delivers a streamlined, enhanced OS X. Stability. Efficiency. A "new generation of core technologies." All this is about raising the floor on the entire system. Multi-core optimization, support for 16TB RAM (yes, Terabytes), and a language to allow developers to tap the power of the graphics processor are just a few of the key upgrades. But you can't lift the floor and let people walk around where the floor used to be all at the same time. Not without leaving holes for a potential rising damp problem further down the track."
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Member since:2005-07-08
Again, Microsoft had intended to release Vista four years earlier, with new features that would mean there would be applications that would require Vista. Vista, however, was late, and had most of it's original features during its early development planing dropped, so unlike XP vs Windows 9x, it did not have any applications being written for it with backwards compatibility problems. Microsoft's lack of new features, and hence improved OS longevity for their OS, is not because Microsoft wanted to be kinder to consumers than Apple. It's because Vista was a lot less than Microsoft had planned.
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Thats my whole thing. There haven't been any major abi changes since tiger, so if a developer is paying attention they should be able to support their software from tiger on and for the most part that is what I've been seeing. So you can't run Snow Leopard, so f'ing what. If you still have tiger that will run without issues, if you could install Leopard that will also run fine. You don't need the latest and greatest, Apple supports older versions of their OS for quite some time. People are still willing to run XP even though vista is out, why because it works well for them, runs great on their hardware and they are still receiving updates from MS. People use the LTS version of Ubuntu because they want to be able to use their OS without worrying about upgrading every six months, so what if they will be outdated 3 years from now, they will still be able to run whatever they need to run.
Snow Leopard may be great but that doesn't make it necessary for you to have it. Apple is taking out a new iPhone, I have the current one does that mean I'm going to go buy another one jsut be have the latest and greatest? Hell no, my iPhone works great now and I've only had it for less than a year, but I'm still geting support from apple, my firmware is going to be updated so I get all the good stuff. So I don't get certain features that doesn't change the fact that my iphone is a great device and that I'm extremely happy with it (though not with AT&T service).
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2005-07-23
Windows versions (the last ones) have lasted way longer than OS X versions, and very few applications REQUIRE Vista, so you can still run 2k/XP with no problems.
Also you don't have to trash your whole computer if Microsoft decides that you need something a little better than you currently have.
And even if they did a Windows machine doesn't cost as much.