[AlexBolduin]

And I got BACK a little over 10GB from UPGRADING to Snow Leopard from Leopard (10.5). I'd love to see Windows try to do that.

[Illisezek]

so...this is a new version of OSX?

Was the most recent before that 10.5.8? If 10.6 is snow leopard, I guess this info is nice to know so I can relay it at work.

[ZanazaKar]

I've yet to see it yet. Don't do enough with Macs as I don't own one of my own. Need to get a mac mini.

[ZIZITOPER]

Snow Leopard Review Round-Up

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/0...rd-review.html

[rarpAcconavox]

MAC= Fail

[jurnalkduo]

MAC= Fail

No. I don't get calls about Mac's infected with Rootkit fake antivirus crap. Mac is the better OS. If Windows worked I wouldn't have a job.

[alskdjreyfd]

This is true when it comes to virus.

No. I don't get calls about Mac's infected with Rootkit fake antivirus crap. Mac is the better OS. If Windows worked I wouldn't have a job.

[Gazeboss]

You won't se an official OS for windows do that.
However if you want to take the time of trial & error you can get Vista down to a 4GB install using your install DVD & a program that strips all the junk nobody ever uses out of the OS.

But then my stock Linux install (which is what OSX is essentially) takes up a quarter of the space that a standard vista install does & comes with more apps to do what you need to do after first log-on.

And, I don't need a dual core CPU to run it smoothly either.

[DiatryDal]

Detta, What distro do you use?

[ViagraFeller]

This is true when it comes to virus.

Have you even used a Mac, or should I say OS X? Most people like you have stereotypes back from Mac OS 6 or so. Plus you don't even give a reason why "Mac=FAIL." Gotta love those posts.

[Dr.Hoodoba]

I've and all Mac house using XP under Vmware. Its the same old story, and has been for many years, that Windows is broken right out of the box. I have to thank Microsoft for all the work it has sent me over the years though. Gates has fed my family for a long time but I would never say I liked or trusted it. And while I like Linux I'm waiting for the day it will handle installs and uninstalls like OSX... wait, what am I thinking! OSX already does that well and is a flavor of Unix so there is no need to flog myself just for the sake of curiosity.

[HomePageOEMfreeSOFTWARE]

And I got BACK a little over 10GB from UPGRADING to Snow Leopard from Leopard (10.5). I'd love to see Windows try to do that.

To get back on topic, after my last post, I'm perturbed at how OSX handles disk space. in 10.4 there wasn't a problem, even though unnecessary space was taken up, but with 10.5 I found disk space "vanished" with nary an explanation as to why. It simply wasn't there any more or was being incorrectly reported. Its infuriating to find 20gb or more that simply cannot be accounted for. And, no, it has nothing to do with the formating of the drive seeing as I've been a tech for well over ten years I know full well about that. The numbers just didn't add up. So I wonder if, in addition to giving back space that no longer is needed to support powerPC code, they got this messed up file space thing straightened out. For now I think I'll wait until a few updates are released and keep an eye out for 10.6.2 or higher.

Windows is a pig when it comes to the junk it installs. XP in comparison to Vista looks practically anorexic. Windows 7, AKA Vista 2.0, looks to trim the bloat of its hormonally challenged sibling but I haven't any faith it will ever get smaller than that.

[RayFairhurst]

MAC= Fail

What moe ron you are. Please, show me a Mac that doesn't surpass a lemon PC and I'll give you a high five and a dog biscuit.

[Zmniubqr]

What moe ron you are. Please, show me a Mac that doesn't surpass a lemon PC and I'll give you a high five and a dog biscuit.

By what metric do you think they surpass? I think Mac's are great, but my PC will leave all but the loaded Mac Pro tower in the dust.

[Pynctyncroast]

And I got BACK a little over 10GB from UPGRADING to Snow Leopard from Leopard (10.5). I'd love to see Windows try to do that.

I've heard snow leopard had a smaller footprint than the previous version. FYI, Windows 7 should have a smaller footprint than Vista. Though, if they follow previous practice, they will leave a lot of junk from the old install with an upgrade...


But could it also be that apple has changed the method they use to calculate drive size? The actual number of bytes remains the same but the base used in measuring that changes, for example, if I look at the properties on one of my hard drives, it's capacity is listed as 146 GB, or 157,286,395,904 bytes. One GB is defined as 1024 Kbytes and a Kbyte is 1024 bytes so 1 GB is actually 1,073,741,824 bytes. If Apple has decided to define 1 GB as 1 billion bytes rather than 1.074 billion bytes, then by that measure, my 146 GB partition becomes a 157 GB partition, though in reality it is exactly the same size as it was before.

apologies to you nerds for not using proper terminology kibi/kilo gibi/giga etc..