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Snow Leopard out in September, wallpaper available now
Snow Leopard is going to be uber cheap, so there's not really any reason to not pick it up -- if you make good, regular use of your Mac, odds are that you'll also make enough use of a copy to justify the value. But even if you're not taking the $30 plunge, Macenstein has the most important part of the OS upgrade covered: the wallpaper. Just like the OS itself, Snow Leopard's wallpaper is only an incremental update from the current version (Macenstein says it looks "faster," and we can see what he means), but just in case you want to at least make your old G5's look like they're all upgraded, just "Set as Desktop Background" and there you go.Rumors that the wallpaper will actually make your computer faster (or give you back that 6GB of hard drive space that the actual upgrade will give you) are unfounded, and probably shouldn't be trusted. But then again, you never know.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
shneider.jacob said 2:43PM on 6-16-2009
Uhh... this is no new news, I already had the Snow Leopard wallpaper for about a week now...
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TR said 3:55PM on 6-16-2009
I had looked for it about a week ago myself. Didn't find it. Now I have.
Mr Lizard said 4:32PM on 6-16-2009
TR,
Flickr is your friend ;-)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/webmotivacom/3611158024/sizes/l/
(uploaded June 9)
Ryan S. said 2:52PM on 6-16-2009
Well, I didn't know about it. At least it's news to some people. Kinda like Wolfram Alpha for iPhone.
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artifex said 2:55PM on 6-16-2009
Did they release this wallpaper into the public domain, or is it still copyrighted?
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Think Adrian said 3:01PM on 6-16-2009
Sa-wheet!
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daniel said 3:03PM on 6-16-2009
Direct Download = http://www.theapplegalaxy.com/?attachment_id=265
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Dano said 3:04PM on 6-16-2009
It dawned on me earlier that most of the work on Snow Leopard being "under the hood", the focus being OpenCL, Exchange (finally, for those that need it anyway), Quicktime X, 64-bit processing, etc, weighing against my miniscule computing requirements, my older, Intel Macs, which won't be part of the OpenCL party (non-supported graphics cards), is there really going to be a point in spending even a piddly $30?
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Tom said 3:40PM on 6-16-2009
There is also Grand Central Dispatch to allow programmers to easily take advantage of the multiple cores your machine has. If it turns out a lot of programmers want to adopt it, expect a lot of 10.6 only, or "runs best on 10.6" apps to be coming out.
Odds are GCD will be more important for people then OpenCL in the long run. There are still only very specialized apps that can take advantage of OpenCL, where as many more can use GCD for better performance, including the built in OS X apps.
Joseph said 5:28PM on 6-16-2009
exchange 2k7, which then requires an update. yikes...
Migrations are always scary.
Dan said 6:14PM on 6-16-2009
Depends. For someone like me who does extensive photo and video editing and sure could use greater than 3 GB of RAM, yeah, I need the full 64-bit support of Snow Leopard. Otherwise, I'd be inclined to see it either way depending on how you use your Mac.
Stefan said 3:20PM on 6-16-2009
Did they change anything else in the prefs in SL except the Gamma (2.2)?
Even though I put the SL Image as background it looks better when I boot in SL...
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Brian Burns said 3:55PM on 6-16-2009
Just wondering why Macenstein get's credit for this? Because you found it there?
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AGS said 8:29PM on 6-16-2009
its because the comments there are hilarious I bet!
Jeremy said 4:50PM on 6-16-2009
does anyone know where to get the nature tree wallpaper featured in some of the screen shots that have been released.
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Kai Cherry said 5:12PM on 6-16-2009
Schramm:
It has *never* been so obvious as it is now that:
1. People do *not* read the links back to the original stories
2. People here are humorless and bitchy.
Best laugh I've had all day; good lookin' out!
"I downloaded this wallpaper and it sped up my iPhone backups!"
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AGS said 8:31PM on 6-16-2009
glad i wasn't the ONLY one who noticed lol, the wallpaper installed QuickTime X!! sweet!! thnx appl!!
danielsan9 said 5:51PM on 6-16-2009
Not sure if anyone else noticed, but it looks like this new background doesn't have any of the confusing stars that compete with open Dock app icon "light bullets" or whatever you want to call them. The stars seem to fade out at the edges in this new background. Nice touch and problem solved!
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Simon Arch said 6:32PM on 6-16-2009
Still looks ugly to me. That's OK though; I've got plenty of good walls to use instead. :)
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