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I'm ready for 10.6.0!

Reuters (Snapper Island) - Early reports indicate large quantities of snappiness are embedded throughout.

wow, safari feels much snappier reading this!

Does anyone know if any of these new updates make the older white Airport base stations more compatible? I've got an old 1GHz G4 Titanium PowerBook, and I couldn't get any bars on the TiBook unless it was resting on top of the Airport base station. I ended up going back to Tiger, because of the hassles connecting and Leopard not being compatible with the older iPhoto. Have any of these new updates fixed this?

Aug 19, 08 - 04:17 pm Comment from: ron

Snap this Dr. Watson.

Aug 19, 08 - 04:24 pm Comment from: Jubei

I feel snappy already.... Bring it on!

That's a good thing. I am always able to see improvements and tweaks over previous versions of the OS. I wish I could say that about iPhone Software v2.0.2. After spending a couple hours downloading and installing the thing last evening, I am still trying to figure what it did. My iPhone 3G still goes from five bars to "no service" while sitting on a desk. There is still that lag when accessing contacts. Baffling!

*QA*
*QA*
*QA*
please

Any word if this will correct the Kernal Panic some users are getting when Time Machine starts to back up wirelessly to Time Capsule?

Aug 19, 08 - 05:24 pm Comment from: Mr. Reeee

Rudge,

I've got the same old TiBook running Tiger. I actually use the thing like a MacBook Air, since the optical drive is dead. Thank the Gods for FireWire!

I installed one of those QuickerTek nQuicky 802.11n PC Card Adaptors to connect to my Airport Extreme. It's fast and works great!

http://www.quickertek.com/products/nquicky_cardbus.php

Is it worth the effort installing Leopard on the thing? Does it take a big speed hit with Leopard? It works perfectly with Tiger, but I feel crippled without QuickLook!

Aug 19, 08 - 05:56 pm Comment from: Tommyr

Snap it pal!

@ Mr. Reese

unless the Ti book runs at 867 MHz or faster, Leopard won't even install on it.

Aug 19, 08 - 06:11 pm Comment from: Randian

"Mac OS X 10.5.5 is expected for release sometime in the coming weeks," Oliver reports.

Brilliant, just brilliant. EVERYTHING is expected in the coming weeks. February 15-February 28, 2009 are also "coming weeks." Gawd, but you'd think that when words are your business and livelihood that you'd be more precise with them.

Aug 19, 08 - 07:27 pm Comment from: iDon't

Will it make my porn sharper?

"unless the Ti book runs at 867 MHz or faster, Leopard won't even install on it."

Oh, there are ways, grasshopper. There are ways.

@iDon't

Ouch! Sharp Porn!

Aug 19, 08 - 08:40 pm Comment from: Sixvodkas

@@gws;

Easiest of all is to place your "incompatible" Mac into FireWire Target mode (where it becomes just another external hard drive), attach it to a "supported Mac", then run the installer.

I was somewhat miffed that Apple called one of our dual 800 G4's "unsupported", 'cos Leopard easily runs faster than Tiger did on it!

The little weenie on my Mac is getting an erection...

@PCophobe

Congratulations - on so many levels.

Aug 19, 08 - 09:44 pm Comment from: TowerTone

"Will it make my porn sharper?"

Just put your pencil in the sharpener and grind away.
(but please try to get the shavings in the trash can...)

There is nothing wrong with using the word "coming" in this context as the following word "weeks" acts as a qualifier, thus giving clear elucidation to the expressed thoughts.

FWIW - The vocabulary of a person is defined either as the set of all words that are understood by that person or the set of all words likely to be used by that person when constructing new sentences.

The relevant words are underlined below;)

Coming - adjective ~

Forthcoming, imminent, impending, approaching; future, expected, anticipated; close, at hand, in store, in the offing, in the pipeline, on the horizon, on the way.

Won't install anything else than Snow Leopard as next anyway! I still run Tiger on Intel MacPro and there's no reason i'll install a non fully optimized 64bits OS by now.

Does anyone know if they are coming up something beyond OS X. I mean it's just so old "X". Let's move to 11 or something.