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This looks like a really cool product. It does create the third category as Steve mentioned. It’s small in the scheme of things, but a big upgrade for the site. I’ve migrated (not without pain, but that’s for another post) from the old G5 single core box running Leopard Server 10.5.8, to a new dual core Intel box, running Snow Leopard Server (10.6.1.) I suppose I could / should have done a full erase and clean install, and can always do that if I experience problems. I took the easy (read that, lazy) way out and just inserted the Install DVD and went to work. It took just a bit over an hour to install Snow Leopard. Of course, on the surface I don’t see anything different, but will poke around and check out the subtle differences (if there is much to find.) The new build does take a considerably smaller footprint (about 3GB less than 10.5) and is quite snappy. At $29USD you shouldn’t pass it up for your Intel based Mac. Ok, what we die hard Mac fans have been waiting for, the next release of OS X! Today I received two emails, one directly from Apple this morning (Alaska time) and this afternoon from MacMall. Both announced ‘pre-order now’ to get your copy on Friday the 28th. Of course, I plopped down the $29 to Apple (which included shipping.) So, run, don’t walk and pre-order your copy of 10.6. iPhone 3.0 advertised tethering as one of the enhancements. I searched Google to find out how to configure and saw many blogs and posts, either folks saying it works great, or not at all. But when I looked at my unlocked 3G from Hong Kong, I didn’t have the tethering option. I even went to the “3″ site in Hong Kong to see if they had instructions. As a matter of fact they did, but had to go to help.benm.at to get it working. This morning, I started the install. I decided to “risk it” and didn’t do a clean, full install. Essentially I did the ‘upgrade’ since I didn’t want to lose what I have on this laptop. In my opinion, while this may not be the best approach, it is a real test. I would think most people would want to preserve their environment and simply “upgrade” the OS. We’ll see if in the end this was the best decision considering a pre-release operating system. |
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