Just Installed Snow leopard.

[MamaMoose]

I just installed on its own volume, Snow Leopard (6.0) followed by the 6.1 update. Including installing Xcode and the additional components, it took about 1 hour twenty minutes. I had no problems except some of my software had not been upgraded to Snow Leopard. These included Application enhancer and its various components including FruitMenu, WindowShade, etc. Much to my surprise my mail client, Eudora 6.2.4 worked flawlessly!!! Of course, Rosetta is an enormous help to keep Power PC apps working. I expect that when OS 7 comes out, it will not include Rosetta.

MamaMoose

[Xairbusdriver]

Congratulations! I've never needed XCode so I left it off to save the space.

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I expect that when OS 7 comes out, it will not include Rosetta.

Actually, Windows 7 did drop it. And I don't think Vista ever had it, either!

[RHPConsult]

Hey! Tom . . . you're (almost) a bleeding-edger    

FWIW - several months ago, after "some one or another" update to 10.5, I believe, my 24" iMac/Intel went absolutely k-r-a-z-y. Its video flashed with several rapidly-changing, anomalous hues and the display looked like a 1937 Saturday afternoon western (you DO remember, don't you?) when the film's sproket holes tore and the frames zipped by at 120.674 mph?

The Genius to whom I was assigned at the Burlingame store is the guy commonly regarded as the pick-o-the-litter . . . by the other store employees. He worked for more than one hour (@ 99.528 mph), and then in a kind of Oh Oh Moment (I thought) looked the "Other" row in Syst Prefs.

Bingo! Then, saying "Oh no!" he trashed Application Enhancer and that did it. Instantly.

He was quite critical of it, asserting that I probably didn't need it for anything, anymore. Apparently it got carried along as I went from earlier editions of OS X.

Not a cough in a carload, since that moment.

In case you're interested, I'd let it be, as they say.

[csonni]

I've been loving SL since I installed it about a week ago.  I love the speed improvement, quick startup and shut down, etc.

[MamaMoose]

XABD,

I need Xcode as it is required by my Fortran compiler. I run some very heavy duty compute-bound calculations using Fortran By the way, with Snow Leopard and a quad 8-core machine, it is now possible to due significant parallel processing where all 8 cores are running simultaneously. Of course, any application that uses that kind of power will need to be rewritten to take advantage of the new capability.

Amazingly, Apple has made such software tools to convert an application to parallel processing [Open Source!/red]. There is of course a method to this "free" madness as the Mac Pro could be a serious challenger to high powered IBM number crunchers as well as Crays. These systems could also be a serious challenger to Microsoft's server business, too.

I am just conjecturing here but I will have the power of say a Cray II (~$3 M) at a cost 10,000 times cheaper!!

MamaMoose

MamaMoose

[sandbox]

Good luck M&M, I thought since I hadn't been on the messy edge of new OS's that it would be fun, and at times it is. But one really needs time to play and fix and record and I had forgotten all that since OS 8.6 ....