Tag: snow leopard

      Snow Leopard won’t kill the Hackintosh

      November 5, 2009 /

      Snow Leopard.Developer builds- who can trust ’em? You may have seen this coming, but the newest most recent build of Snow Leopard, version 10.6.2, restores support for Intel’s Atom CPU. Yes, that means your hackintosh is safe if you’ve made the 64-bit upgrade.

      As to reasons for the flip-flop, there’s still no word from Apple. That likely means it was a bug, or an unintended consequence of some other change to the system. As such, I’d like to officially recant all those things I said about Apple going after the hacking community in light of a tablet release. It just ain’t happening, folks. Carry on.

      Apple, Computers

      Snow Leopard to kill Atom CPU support?

      November 2, 2009 /

      Hackintosh Dell mini.Nothing’s official just yet, but the latest Snow Leopard developer build, version 10.6.2, does away with Atom CPU support. It’s not a big deal to the average Mac user, but for anyone who has put the hours of dedication and frustration into making a Hackintosh, it’s a huge deal. It would effectively kill Snow Leopard for the little lappies, at least until someone can find a workaround.

      For the few among us running OS X on a Dell Mini or other such devices, you’re going to be stuck on 10.6.1 if you made the upgrade work. It has to make you wonder, though, if Apple isn’t targeting the tiny community ahead of the tablet release to encourage a few more purchases. Then again, the community is so small and the anticipation of an Apple tablet so great that it’s hard to imagine that to be the case.

      Apple, Computers

      Snow Leopard In The Wild

      August 22, 2009 /

      Mac OS X 10.6 install disc.According to Engadget, a Japanese reader sent this pic of the install disc that came with said reader’s new Mac Mini. Notice anything strange? Yup, that’s OS 10.6, version 1.0, aka Snow Leopard.

      As always, the disc could be a fake, but it’s quite possibly the lamest thing to fake on the planet. So you got that under-the-hood update a week before everyone else. Neat. You do have to wonder, though, how did Apple let this one slip out? If it wasn’t a slip, we would have seen pictures from other recent purchases, no doubt. Then again, it could be that all the people who care about this sort of thing wouldn’t buy a computer the week before a new OS is set to release.

      Either way, the pic probably, most likely, near definitely adds credence to the rumored August 28th ship date for the new operating system.

      Apple, News

      Apple To Ship Snow Leopard By August 28th

      August 21, 2009 /

      Snow Leopard Disc.There have been rumors for some time that Apple might be letting Snow Leopard out of the cage (sorry, had to) before September. Whether it’s a mistake or not, it looks like the UK Apple Store is confirming that rumor with a posted August 28th ship date.

      That could mean the item ships on the 28th with delayed postage so you don’t get it until September, but that seems a little unlikely. It looks like you may see Snow Leopard on your porch as early as next weekend. A couple Engadget tipsters also pointed out that the US up-to-date program has a confirmed ship date of August 28th, despite the posted September ship date.

      As you’ll probably recall, Snow Leopard is more a behind-the-scenes update than anything else, bringing all core apps up to 64-bit performance and adding that nifty three- and four-finger gesture functionality to pre-unibody Macbooks. My girlfriend is going to be so…oh wait, no. She doesn’t care at all.

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