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post #91 of 99
9/4/09 at 2:33am
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Def Leppard comes out on Saturday!

What is the sound of one hand drumming?
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post #92 of 99
9/5/09 at 4:27pm
My buddy just tried to upgrade from Tiger. Just thought I'd pass this along. You *might* be able to upgrade from Tiger with the standard upgrade copy, but it is not supported by Apple, so if it doesn't work, you are pretty much screwed.
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post #93 of 99
9/5/09 at 4:46pm
http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20090826...eopards-spots/

Frankly I am completely shocked at the level of ineptitude Mossberg spouts in that article. Not only did he compare the relative "ease" of a Leopard to Snow Leopard upgrade to the relative "hassle" of a XP to Win 7 upgrade (which is ludicrous and unfair from a software standpoint) He made a point to trumpet all about how he "saved" 14GB of HDD space. Which I'm pretty sure we've determined in this thread, is mathematically highly unlikely. It took like 20 something comments for a reader to point out how that is a highly inflated number.

This is what I hate about Apple, when someone drinks the kool-aid, they don't just drink it, they fucking SWIM in it. I used to actually respect this person's column and find it informative. Now he's turned into another fanboy blogger. Sad.
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post #94 of 99
9/11/09 at 2:43pm
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My buddy just tried to upgrade from Tiger. Just thought I'd pass this along.
You *might* be able to upgrade from Tiger with the standard upgrade copy, but it is not supported by Apple, so if it doesn't work, you are pretty much screwed.

I'll be trying the install tonight on my Tiger-running Intel-based Mac (I received the disk yesterday, but spent the evening backing up files), and I'll let you know whether it's successful or not.

I have one of the short-lived Core Duo processors (quickly replaced by the Core 2 Duo line), which I see means that I won't be able to take advantage of the new 64-bit infrastructure. I don't see anything indicating that I can't install Snow Leopard on this computer at all, though. Even if the upgrade fails (and I've seen no reason why it should), I should be able to do a clean install and then copy over the files I need from last night's backup.
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post #95 of 99
9/11/09 at 8:08pm
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I don't get it, even Apple's site says this http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2419 So your 128 GB drive should be showing a capacity of 128 GB.
This is probably because manufacturers cheat on the harddrive specs of drives. A true gigabyte is 1073741824 bytes (2^30). But manufacturers often say that 1000000000 is a GB, which makes their drives seem larger than they really are. Kernels only uses the base 2 version, so that's what you have to go by.
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post #96 of 99
9/11/09 at 8:10pm
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Originally Posted by Tokyo Slim View Post


My buddy just tried to upgrade from Tiger. Just thought I'd pass this along.
You *might* be able to upgrade from Tiger with the standard upgrade copy, but it is not supported by Apple, so if it doesn't work, you are pretty much screwed.

Yeah, I upgraded from 10.3 to 10.4 a while back on PPC. Thing hosed my system. Back everything up then do a fresh install.
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post #97 of 99
9/12/09 at 3:01am
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I'll be trying the install tonight on my Tiger-running Intel-based Mac (I received the disk yesterday, but spent the evening backing up files), and I'll let you know whether it's successful or not.

I have one of the short-lived Core Duo processors (quickly replaced by the Core 2 Duo line), which I see means that I won't be able to take advantage of the new 64-bit infrastructure. I don't see anything indicating that I can't install Snow Leopard on this computer at all, though. Even if the upgrade fails (and I've seen no reason why it should), I should be able to do a clean install and then copy over the files I need from last night's backup.

Done. Installation proceeded without a hitch, and everything seems to be working.
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post #98 of 99
9/12/09 at 4:49am
been running 10.6 since last week, problem free. should be getting a new openCL compatible videocard soon but i've been reading that it's not running well on some cards right now, like the 4870 which i'm planning to get.
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post #99 of 99
9/12/09 at 8:32pm
I find that my macbook has been slowing down a tad, so I hope Snow Leopard makes the use of my dual core system with more efficiency.
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