Mac Users - OS X Snow Leopard

[Msterbeau]

Apple's latest OS update - OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard- has been out since Friday. I upgraded my Mac Mini (2009) yesterday after making sure all my data was backed up and doing some system maintenance to prepare for it. So far everything is working as advertised. I gained approximately 15GB of harddrive space after the installation and my system is definitely snappier. Some of the new 64 bit versions of iLife apps are super fast to open. Startup and shutdown are MUCH faster then before. All my important design apps seem to work fine, if not better then before. I'm a happy camper. .

More info:

http://www.apple.com/macosx/

http://www.macworld.com/article/142459/2009/08/snow_leopard.html

[n0Mad]

Not to be confused with this NSFW:

[Msterbeau]

Not to be confused with this NSFW:

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

Any idea why they pulled ZFS or why there is no virtualization support?

[Msterbeau]

Any idea why they pulled ZFS or why there is no virtualization support?

I read something a while back about the ZFS thing. Not sure. I would say "not ready" plus maybe they want that to be part of the next update where they'll have lot's of "features" to gloat about.

No virtualization? Mmm.. Never heard that. I have Parallels Desktop running XP. Debating whether to update that to Windows 7. Probably won't for a while. Nothing I need XP for needs anything more modern.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

I read something a while back about the ZFS thing. Not sure. I would say "not ready" plus maybe they want that to be part of the next update where they'll have lot's of "features" to gloat about.

No virtualization? Mmm.. Never heard that. I have Parallels Desktop running XP. Debating whether to update that to Windows 7. Probably won't for a while. Nothing I need XP for needs anything more modern.

You mean OSX isn't ready yet? ZFS is a "shipping" product and has been since 2006.

Paralells is the only recourse the Mac user has for Virtualization and it's a third party solution. Every other major OS comes with some form of FREE virtualization solution out of the box.

[Rayne]

*thinks about if the MackBook is worth upgrading .... since I'll be buying a MacBook Pro soon*

[Guest Megalicious]

I have seen a small difference on the the upgrades to the mini and old Pro. It came standard on my new Pro so there is nothing for comparison So far, no complaints.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

Whats this I am reading that it's malware protection only scans for two Trojan familys? Um... What about all the Mac malware thats been coming out? What about Rootkit detection?

[Msterbeau]

You mean OSX isn't ready yet? ZFS is a "shipping" product and has been since 2006.

Paralells is the only recourse the Mac user has for Virtualization and it's a third party solution. Every other major OS comes with some form of FREE virtualization solution out of the box.

No - I was referring to Apple integrating ZFS into OS X. At the beginning of the year it was supposed to be part of the upgrade and then *poof* all references to it disappeared.

Parallels isn't the only solution on Mac. VM Ware and a couple others exist. One is free, if I recall right. Nope, not integrated into the OS itself. So I can run Linux/Unix on a Vista machine without anything but the OS? Link? I can't seem to find anything.

[Msterbeau]

Whats this I am reading that it's malware protection only scans for two Trojan familys? Um... What about all the Mac malware thats been coming out? What about Rootkit detection?

It only scans for two Trojans because there's very little else that's a "real" threat, at the moment. Almost all the "malware" that's gotten press requires action on the users part to infect the machine. And there are only a few, plus a few more "what-ifs". There's also a company that makes software that keeps putting out self serving alarms about "threats" that really aren't. Are Macs immune? Of course not, but to say "all that malware" is way overstating things too. From what I read, same thing with rootkits. Possible? Yes. But on OS X they need user action to authorize install and they pretty much don't exist.

Edited September 1, 2009 by Msterbeau

[Msterbeau]

Here's a VERY comprehensive review of Snow Leopard for anyone that cares and has an hour to kill:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars

[Guest Megalicious]

Sweet Marc, I do have an hour to kill.

[Msterbeau]

Sweet Marc, I do have an hour to kill.

Some of it is completely over my head programmer-level stuff. Still a good read. :-)

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

Marc, upgrade your Flash. Apple shipped Leopard with an older version of Flash that has major security issues.

You should stop down playing security threats on the Mac. The false sense of security you are giving people is exactly what it takes for the security threats to become real problems in their lives.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

Wait a sec.... Snow leopard is their first version with a 64bit kernel? Wow, thats a bit behind the times.

[StormKnight (1)]

link

Edited September 7, 2009 by StormKnight

[Msterbeau]

Any idea why they pulled ZFS or why there is no virtualization support?

Here's your answer on ZFS:

http://www.macworld.com/article/143500/2009/10/zfs_discontinued.html

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

Here's your answer on ZFS:

http://www.macworld....scontinued.html

Well, there ya go. I'm not going to hold my breath for the new Windows File System... don;t think anyone should be holding thier breath for the a new Mac file system either.... even though they both need it.