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The differences between snow leopard and leopard

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notime_for_jokes
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havnt seen a thread about the defferences between the 2, so here's one. ordered snow leopard, wanted to know if it legit first so here's what i found.
the 3 main differences are:
(i have no clue what the 3rd one means i just copied and pasted it)

1. apple knows that more and more people are switching from windows to mac, and the more popular mac becomes the more virus's people are going to make for them. snow leopard has prepared us for that by making it way more secure than the old leopard.
2. somehow they've decreased the amount of memory that each application takes up on the computer. ex.- on leopard the MAIL app took up 287mb's of data, on snow leopard the app only takes up 91. theyve cut most applications by at least half
3. Snow Leopard is ditching its support for PowerPC. For all the PowerPC users out there, myself included, that kind of sucks, and we will be left on Leopard for the time being. However, for the Intel users, myself included, this means a sleeker more streamlined OS. One that focuses solely on a single architecture. This means a dramatically smaller OS.

heres the link where i got all the info, also has a graph showing each application and how much theyve been cut down by.
http://www.fortheloveofgeeks.com/2008/06/28/apples-snow-leopard-whats-the-point/
Sep 5 2009 10:35AM
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finnajon5
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hmm so basically what your saying is there's not that much difference between snow and regular, that kinda sucks, i bet they will come out with a better one next time they upgrade. i heard september 7th they are doing another one of those introducing presentations
Sep 5 2009 10:57AM
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idontactuallyski
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from what i understand, it's not supposed to do much as soon as you get it. but as applications come out with more updates, you will start to notice the differneces.
Sep 5 2009 11:03AM
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00_Koda
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Sep 5 2009 11:33AM
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buckers
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Snow Leopard doesn't actually cut down on space, well it does. But Apple are now using a different way to calculate GB size, which means all the sizes on your mac will change. Coupled with the fact that Apple have reduced the size of apps slightly, that means what looks like a pretty drastic change in size, but in actual fact, nothing much has changed.
Sep 5 2009 12:04PM
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buckers
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I completely agree. They have once again, introduced something completely standard as amazing and new.

I'm loving SL so far, the desktop is wicked, Safari launches faster than I can blink, and the Finder is super speedy.
Sep 5 2009 12:08PM
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I_Am_Mod
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this thread isn't about leopards!

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^^regular leopard

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^^snow leopard
Sep 5 2009 12:27PM
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Mr.Panda
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i thought it was going to be about these types of leopards too...  FUCK SHIT COCK!!!!!!!!!!!

why does apple have name their operating system after animals, dont they know that in the healthy discussion on the internet the average internet user cant comprehend the idea of TWO leopards, one that is an animal and one that is a OS?  damnit.

in other news, i was watching Planet Earth sometime last week and apparently there is a type of leopard in Eastern Russia/Alaska too.....  cant remember if its a Snow Leopard or something else....

Sep 5 2009 12:30PM
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Steeze-On-Toast
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im guessing new Macs are being shipped with SL now
Sep 5 2009 2:54PM
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JosephStalin
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snow leopard is also incredibly faster.
Sep 5 2009 3:54PM
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masta_LE3B
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snow leopards like powder, a skiers best friend
Sep 5 2009 5:43PM
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doublexl
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at what elevation does a deer become an elk?
Sep 5 2009 6:08PM
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Crack.
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snow leopards are more badass.
Sep 5 2009 6:10PM
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cashdebt
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i'm gonna say the word snow. they realized this would appeal to all ns so they obviously had to market it cuz ns accounts for the whole world population
Sep 5 2009 6:11PM
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Crack.
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the animal or OS?
Sep 5 2009 6:16PM
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FrenchToastMafia
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i agree, they should start doing this with ipods also, instead of a 14.8gb ipod you should get all 16gbs
Sep 5 2009 7:53PM
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DrZoidberg
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^^^^ Does that have anything to do with trying to switch most of the programs to 64 bit processing or whatever they did?

Too bad I own a PC, but soon i'm gonna get a mac for college. I use them in school, organizing files is much easier, so is finding them.
Sep 5 2009 10:24PM
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