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Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
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Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

Introduction <top>

Snow Leopard (Wikipedia) was released Fri 2009-08-28 and does NOT include ZFS (so sad...).

Mixed Gathered Info

www.apple.com/macosx (always current OS, www.apple.com/macosx/snowleopard redirects to this)
What's New? (Aside Apple's link above):
- CNET: Apple's Snow Leopard: A flurry of changes | Apple - CNET News
Reviews:
- One overview of reviews is available at blogs.zdnet.com/gadgetreviews/?p=6948 (go there to follow links to actual acticles)
  - CNET Reviews: “Smartly designed.”
  - Engadget: “More than justifies skipping that last round of drinks at the bar.”
  - Gizmodo: “Lightened and enlightened.”
  - USA Today: “Isn’t a must-have upgrade.”
  - Macworld: “I’d pay slightly more not to have the misguided QuickTime Player X as part of the package.”
  - PC World: “Doesn’t offer enough to get very excited about.”
  - Chicago Sun-Times: “A very egalitarian release.”
  - New York Times: “May the rest of the industry take [a] hint.”
  - Wall Street Journal: “Isn’t a typical Apple lust-provoking product.”
  - Slashgear: “Bargain of the year.”
ZDNet: Apple unleashes Snow Leopard Snow Leopard upgrade: What's in it for me? - news.zdnet.com/2463-9595_22-335778.html?tag=nl.e539
A collection of articles, including (e.g.):
- Apple kicks ZFS in the butt, more of ZFS file system including Mac ZFS is dead: RIP
Compatibility Review (below)

The below was written Nov 2008:

Snow Leopard (Wikipedia) is in development and is expected to be released sometime 2009 (written Nov 2008).

The big thing we're currently most exited about is it's supposely to include a new - great! - file system: ZFS. Read more in Apple announces ZFS on Snow Leopard (ZDNet, June 19th, 2008).

Table of Contents (TOC)

20090608 MacWorld: Snow Leopard gets a September ship date
20090608 MacWorld: Snow Leopard more feature-laden than expected

Compatibility Review <top>

Created 2009-09-02

Apple: Mac OS X v10.6: About incompatible software- support.apple.com/kb/HT3258
wikidot: Snow Leopard Compatibility: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Compatibility List
Elsewhere at J&P: Must Haves - very useful utilities (created for 10.5, added column for compatibility 2009-09-04)

This table are more focused on the major applications we use daily - that absolutely must work ('show stoppers'). (The Must Haves are utilties that kind of are in the same category but are not show stoppers.)

Application/Suite	Got Version	Latest Version	Mfg	wikidot	Own Ass.	Compatibility Notes
1Password	2.9.31	<<<	Ok	Ok	Ok	Works, v3 is work in progress (free for the ones buying app after Feb 1 2009, thus free for us who bought in Apr 09)
Adobe CS 4	CS 4	<<<	no info	Ok	Ok	No info immediately found at mfg site
Google Desktop	1.7.0.1877	1.6...???	?	no info	Yes	NOT a show stopper. (Note: Google's site doesn't actually mention 1.7... Lates per their own release notes doc retrieved 2009-09-02 is 1.6... (9/30/2008).
MS Office 2008	12.2	<<<	no info	Ok	Ok	(Version info 12.2 taken from Entourage) No info found at MS site on Office.
Parallels	4.0.3844	<<<	4.0	Ok	Ok	wikidot: "build 4.0.3810 adds support for Snow Leopard, both as a host and guest OS. Only with 32-bit kernel SL."
VMware Fusion	2.0.5	<<<	no info	Ok	Ok	wikidot: "Only with 32-bit kernel SL"
OTHER - PrefPanes (not show stoppers but added here as a suitable place for this info)
Growl	1.1.6	1.1.6	wip	n/c	yes	Works after restart of System Preferences; compatible pref pane is work in progress.
MacFUSE	2.0.3	2.0.3	?	?	?	2.0.3 (2.0.3.2) is latest version per 2009-09-04
Microsoft Keyboard	6.3.0 (v.235)	###	>>>	n/c	seems ok	http://www.google.com/search?q=microsoft+intellitype+pro+mac+os+x+10.6 Microsoft Intellitype Pro Seems to; Works after restart of System Preferences; compatible pref pane is work in progress. "IntelliType Pro and IntelliPoint for the Mac version 7.0 is compatible with the 32-bit version of Mac OS® X 10.6 (Snow Leopard™). Microsoft Hardware is developing a 64-bit compatible version. This version will be availalbe on or before 10/2/2009. While in 64-bit mode, only basic device functionality will be available." www.microsoft.com/hardware/downloads/
Microsoft Mouse	6.3.0 (v.235)	7.0	>>>	n/c	seems ok
MySQL	###	###	###	###	###	Works after restart of System Preferences; compatible pref pane is work in progress.

n/c: not checked

(Own Ass. should be read Own Assessment, but of course could also be interpreted as saving our own ass...)

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