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Permalink Reply by djdez92 on September 3, 2008 at 5:22pm: we'll have to wait and see; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by TheHenry on September 3, 2008 at 5:25pm: yea; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by MooseStuff on September 3, 2008 at 5:41pm: well i dont see y not snow leopard if it lives up to what steve said it would do; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by matt on September 3, 2008 at 5:44pm: Depends, if I understand it correctly a lot of the speed from Snow Leopard will be connected with the GPU on the graphics card.

Seeing how I have a Macbook how will this help me?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ollie on September 12, 2008 at 12:48pm: I think they should have called it Lynx.
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Permalink Reply by Bret on September 12, 2008 at 1:19pm: Is there a reason to take Leopard over Snow Leopard? Any reason at all?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Chris Pirillo on September 12, 2008 at 2:06pm: Thank you, Evan. :); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by TheHenry on September 13, 2008 at 2:36pm: i agree with evan; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jorge Garcia on September 13, 2008 at 2:07pm: Wow! I'm way behind on macs. I wish I owned one. So is that like the next OS? If so Leopard didn't stick around 2 long...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by TheHenry on September 13, 2008 at 2:43pm: yea it would; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jack Mitchell on September 14, 2008 at 11:47am

I knew someone to attended WWDC this year so I myself believe it or not, tried it. I made a time machine backup and then reformatted and did a clean snowy install. Installation went very fast, about 15 minutes. First thing I did was install a CPU and RAM monitor on my menu bar to see how much better it was. I did my normal stuff and saw I was only using about 1 quarter of all of my memory. Before I would be right at the top, and sometimes getting the HDD involved.
It was an improvement, and all apps opened faster.
I really saw the performance when it got OpenCL in the equation, just looking at the temps on my computer, if my CPU was maxed out to the limit, so would my GPU. I noticed that video conversions went faster with this and overall the boot time was cut in half.
The only real features I saw were some extra dashboard widgets and you can change icon size on the fly with a slider in the finder window.

I downgraded because of the WIERD errors i was getting. if i can find some screenshots that i took i will post them.

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