[Snow Leopard] My opinion

[Tyman07]

I recently installed the developer preview, and i must say its very stable. Things run pretty awesome and fast. And if anyone is looking for a fast OS
i would totally recommend getting it.

im not going to post links but a google search will solve the problem

and if anyone else has it please post their problems with it
and what programs don't work.
Or just their own review :)

[Stianu89]

I have a copy, have you tested any of the pro applications? Im a sucker for new stuff! And i would like to know if final cut, photoshop etc works! If anyone here has tested it can you tell me how well it performs?

[Adrian Fogge]

I am having problems installing my copy of Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium... fails on Flash.

But then again, the disk is a little scratched. Haven't a clue how as I am normally so careful with my DVDs.

[colonels1020]

I'm looking forward to how well it'll perform on my Celeron D. :P

[f41qu3]

Works like a charm in Celeron D 478 pins (with kernel modified).

PowerPC going down, crap Celeron D going up. :D

[george_6666]

Does this have an expiry date or something...?

Because I got a copy of it and dont mind installing it IF it never expires like other Bets versions of OSs like Microsoft...

Bec. Now I will stop spending on OS upgrades and will run this version of SnowLeopard Developers Preview for a few years....

[crawley]

any hint on how you got it working? i got double kernel panic on intel dual core :(

[tomnic]

Double panic even there, that's how I tried it:

1. open OSInstall.mpkg from a working Leo 10.5.3 to a GUID formatted blank test Sata Hard Disk

2. Put Chameleon bootloader on that disk

3. Put 32 bit dsmos.kext, ApplePS2, Applesmbios kexts

4. Tried to boot with -legacy flag... double panic

I suppose we need some recompiled hacked 64-bit kexts, just like dsmos, but also AppleACPI... I think it's that stock 64 bit apple kext that generates one of the panic. This is my setup:

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 CPU
Gigabyte GA-P31-DS3L
4 Gigs of DDR2 1066 MHz Ram
Pioneer DVR-212 Sata DVD-RW

Any hint?

[f41qu3]

Need special (newer) bootloader.

[tomnic]

Need special (newer) bootloader.

Chameleon 1.0.11 doesn't do the Job... what's newer than that?

[f41qu3]

A "boot" file modified to run Snow.

It's in internal tests and developement. Sorry, I can't share.

:)

[crawley]

are any public releases planned in the near future?

[jasonp]

I recently installed the developer preview, and i must say its very stable. Things run pretty awesome and fast. And if anyone is looking for a fast OS
i would totally recommend getting it.

im not going to post links but a google search will solve the problem

and if anyone else has it please post their problems with it
and what programs don't work.
Or just their own review :)

awsum i have tryed over 2 copys and none have worked :-(

[f41qu3]

:P

too early to talk about snow leopard in pc and also to offer files.

Keep freshing...don't worry...this is first beta.

[colonels1020]

Works like a charm in Celeron D 478 pins (with kernel modified).

PowerPC going down, crap Celeron D going up. :D

Wow, seriously? Man, if I had known that I wouldn't have sold it for this G5. :P

Now the only hack i have left is this AMD box... here's hoping for Snow Leo on AMD64! :D

Oh, and just for the heck of it, I tried booting the Snow Leopard installer on my iBook G3.. looks like they've completely removed the G3's machine identifiers from the kernel...
http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/5942/dsc01460oc4.th.jpg (http://img112.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc01460oc4.jpg)

[f41qu3]

Wow, seriously? Man, if I had known that I wouldn't have sold it for this G5. :P

Now the only hack i have left is this AMD box... here's hoping for Snow Leo on AMD64! :D

Oh, and just for the heck of it, I tried booting the Snow Leopard installer on my iBook G3.. looks like they've completely removed the G3's machine identifiers from the kernel...
http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/5942/dsc01460oc4.th.jpg (http://img112.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc01460oc4.jpg)

hahahahah " We are hanging here..." let me think in old times :D

Now, about error, is related to AppleACPIPlatform...maybe need some modifications on ACPI kext otr, need use this old kext from Leopard...maybe should work...(or not)... :fail

This tests is ftw. :hack:

[Adrian Fogge]

I have to say, I am shocked.

Here we are two months post-wwdc08 and we are still using the same old wwdc build...

~Adrian

[.inm]

Double posted, sorry :-(

Anyways, I forgot to say I have a macbook c2d 2 ghz

[.inm]

I've just installed snow and ilife, I did run geekbench but I did get the same result as when I had 10.5.5

However, it does feel quite a bit faster actually, apps launch much faster.
I did also run xbench just to see if there is any difference in numbers.

Clean install with leo 10.4.9 my result was 106 and with snow 10.5.6 I got 120 so about 10-13% faster I guess.

But by feeling it feels more like 20% faster

Window focus seems to be a bit off from time to time. ilife did install perfect. I'll try more apps later on.

[HotBreeze]

Chameleon 1.0.11 doesn't do the Job... what's newer than that?

Things in development.

[Adrian Fogge]

Who believes that Apple is starting to apply their iPhone ADC Pre-Release policies to their normal ADC subscriptions?

Just referring to the fact that it has been 4 months and there is still yet to be an updated Snow Leopard release, or anything else for that matter.

The whole point of ADC is to allow Pre-Release access to software to allow for compatibility testing *before* release, and that simply isn't happening any more.

~Adrian

[sam]

That is a reason why I won't longer my ADC and will send a complainment letter to apple. Epic fail politics.

[clint999]

Works like a charm in Celeron D 478 pins (with kernel modified).

PowerPC going down, crap Celeron D going up.