Will you upgrade to Snow Leopard right away?

Just wondering what everyone's upgrade plans are?

Personally, Leopard is awesome for me, and i'm scared that my current software won't work on Snow Leopard, like Pixelmator or Office 2008. I'm also scared of teething problems.

So overall, I think I might hang back a while and see how it goes....

What about you?

 

I'm really not too concerned about compatibility issues since i only use my MBP is more of a luxury item for me right now. I tend to use my PC desktop more since I have a bigger screen connected to it and its more powerful than my MBP.

besides that, I'm with you on the hang back a while and see how it goes before I upgrade.

 

Not unless it is $20 or less. If not I'll get it when my school starts selling the unlimited license copies.

 

It'll depend on pricing and what I hear about it. So far its promising, and it does seem it'll be cheaper than the regular $129 for a new Mac OS. I'm not on Leopard so I'm more inclined to get Snow Leopard.

 

very much depends on the price, if its reasonable, then i will go ahead, i do hope they give free upgrades to recent buyers, but thats just wishful thinking

 

maybe wait like few weeks until some reviews come out

 

Prob wait a month or 2 unless alot of customers upgrade fast and need support

 

I won't upgrade anytime this year. I'm happy with leopard right now, and will upgrade only when absolutely necessary

 

It will probably go the same as the upgrade to Tiger for me. I will wait a few months until I have a little extra cash to spend and in the mean time allow them to work out all the inevitable little bugs that made it through testing.

 

I think software compatibility issues will be non-existent. I am really excited for Open CL and Grand Central. Hopefully we will see some GPU accelerated Photoshop and video encoding soon.

 

I'm actually thinking about buying the new mac pros when snow leopard ships with it.

 

Leopard was buggier than crap when it was released, although over about three months most of the major issues were corrected. I think there was a fair bit of backlash from Apple users (Leopard was Apple's "Vista" although no where near as bad and corrected much faster).

I think Apple learned something which is why they are concentrating on efficiency and reliability in SL so I am hopeful this will be a pretty solid release and plan to go to it fairly quickly.

 

I already have the dough... now where is my snow leopard!!?!

 

Its Apple we're talking about!

They don't get things wrong like Microsoft (I'm not saying there perfect )

Ofcourse I'll upgrade, I'll camp outside the store!

 

Your No, blah blah choices are like contradictory.. it should all be yes.. dont ya think

when you put No then the choice should be like dont want to or s ome other reason

 

I may wait a couple of days for first reviews but will be upgrading my systems rather quickly.

 

Yeah. Why I didn't vote. They were all pretty much "yes."

 

No, because this thread isn't about those who aren't going to upgrade. It's about how soon the one's that are planning to will.

So if you don't plan on getting Snow Leopard, this thread is not for you. Sorry.

See above

 

so what are the new features?
cause if its only performance enhancements i don't think i really need it

 

Rumors include
- Full 64 bit
- Transitioning older bits (Finder etc) to Coca
- Smaller/Faster/More Reliable
- Mail and iCal get MS Exchange support (this is one I hope is true).

Lost more small things I don't recall but not a lot of major stuff.

 

I expect that I'll wait - I don't really see a killer feature in Snow Leopard at the moment.

 

meh.. wouldnt pay more than 100 bucks, unless it drastically improves vmware..

 

I'm a computer speed junky so I will get it immediately for that speed increase. I'll probably do a clean install too (with the new disk format). Leopard already runs fantastically so it will be interesting to see how snow leopard goes. Hopefully it will be less than $100.

 

yeah, hopefully the SSD drives will also be a lot cheaper by then

 

Oh I guess the right away makes it correct. I musta overlooked that
I thought the question was simply - Will you upgrade to Snow..

 

I'm worried my hard ware won't be able to handle it.






kidding...I'll get it when it becomes available at Best Buy.

 

i'll hold on until i get rich enough to buy it.

 

It'll be like $100...I don't understand why everyone is complaining about being so poor. Seriously.

 

I'll hold off for a while. I've still got a G4 and I don't want to upgrade the others only to find that allofasudden the G4 can't come to the screen sharing party any more. I need to read some reviews first. If it's faster and supports the PPC, I'll get it sooner. If it's faster and doesn't support PPC, I've got some thinking to do. If it's not faster, then it better bring something to the table I really need or want or I'll sit this one out.

 

Apparently you have money...
But I'm sure most Mac owners can afford it.. Am I right ..

 

I got a mac, so I guess so . I'd upgrade .

 

Since most Mac users could actually afford a mac, i'd assume they could afford the $100 for Snow Leopard

 

I think definitely, Snow Leopard wasn't meant to be a "feature-packaged" OS, with brand new iChat backgrounds and stuff like that. I think with Snow Leopard, Apple is more focusing on improving speed and efficiency of the Mac OS, rather than packing more features (and ultimately slowing it down).

Similarly, I wouldn't mind if camera manufacturers started really working on improving photo quality and reducing noise, rather than just adding more and more megapixels.

 

I don't know, I regard 64bit and Open CL as major features.

After all, 32bit will be alive on PC's for some time, but with Mac's, it will be all but extinct in a few years.

That's another reason i like macs. The speed of development is much faster than PC's

 

Definitely, 64-bit and OpenCL are major features, but what I mean is that the ordinary consumer will not be considering those things as a major update, but it will help speed up the efficiency and power of Mac OS. So they are "undercover" updates, while Leopard had many "on-the-surface" updates, like a new desktop, new UI, etc.

 

i really hope snow leopard is going to be great

 

I'll get it within a week or two. I'll have to make sure that some of my apps are compatible, and I'll be ready to go.

I intend to get alot of benefit out of Snow Leopard, with my 8 cores and all

 

Well this adds a new spin to this poll. AppleInsider is reporting that a Snow Leopard UI overhaul will be announced. That should change some opinions I think.

 

Hmmm, very curious to see what the final UI looks like. I don't know if I handle not having a blue scroll bar

 

I'm hanging back on this upgrade because I don't use my MBP as much as I'd like to at this time. I find myself using my desktop more since I'm at home more often these days.

 

Whoh! Thanks for the news!

 

I'll definately get it the first day it comes out.