Snow Leopard Big Deal or Bust?
Posted by whoknew on Monday, September 7, 2009 in Apple, Featured, Technobabble
What the hell is Snow Leopard? I keep hearing that it’s just a service pack or not worth the $29 dollars and more recently I have been hearing that Microsoft is laughing at it’s imperfections. Hey Microsoft take a quick look at Windows 7 because it is far from perfect.
However this does not answer the question. Is Snow Leopard a big deal for all the Mac fanboys and fangirls or is it just some elaborate scheme to exploit money from the population to gain revenue and profit. Let’s admit Apple has been down some bumpy roads lately. Just look at the app store’s developer relations and you can see just a few potholes at 1 infinite loop.
I see no reason why Snow Leopard could not have been a free upgrade. Some even say the feature enhancements could have been delivered via software updates and the processes simplified by spanning it over a few months. I am sure that some would argue and say “Well the core architecture has changed and thus well worth the twenty-nine dollar upgrade.
Lets get serious! We are still far from perfecting the 64-bit model and even further from utilizing it’s full potential. When would a consumer ever need to allocate 2 exabytes of memory. As I see it this is the only real upgrade to Snow Leopard as most other upgrades were already offered via hacking or cracking Leopard or using 3rd party software.
Overall I see this as a pathetic attempt to either 1) Represent that they are still ahead of Microsoft by releasing an incremental upgrade before the launch of Windows 7. 2) Add long wanted features to a seemingly identical Operating System to gain a fair amount of profit (Five Million Copies * $29.99 = $66 million in revenue). Regardless I am highly disappointed in Snow Leopard and expected more from Apple.
If you are still debating on getting the upgrade. I would hold off until the 3rd party developers make better use of the 64-bit model and unleash the full power of Grand Central Dispatch.
Agree? Disagree? Leave your comments.
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Let’s be real here, Snow Leopard is a no brainer upgrade (for $29!) that everyone should go out, buy, and install. Snow Leopard is a lot bigger than you’re giving it credit for. First, many of the core applications have been rewritten essentially from the ground up (e.g. Finder which is much improved), there are more new features and functionality then you may realize unless you actually use it. It is much improved from Leopard.
Nonetheless, if you’re going to call Snow Leopard a service pack – be fair and call Windows 7 a service pack, because, under your logic Windows 7 is just as much as service pack (but costs like $200 more than SL) to Vista as Snow Leopard is to Leopard.