there are only shit, overpriced sound cards for macs. i like music. i dont like itunes either. on-board + itunes = no.

apple, make some good sound cards, support gaming, and let me pirate your software and we'll talk.

I have 2 friends who went and joined the non-queues to be early adopters.

I'm been amusing myself today watching their facebook status updates complaining and moaning about things.

The general impression seems to be "not impressed".

These are of course professional graphic and web designers who are using a Mac for their day to day work, and not some techie journalist who has one because a fruit label should make them cool and popular.

The Money

@789H - maybe you should try not cherry picking mac fanboi videos...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIxiOlbSNss

winXP 5 second SSD boot... first result on youtube... nuff said.

thankyou for another incoherent useless slightly offtopic comment... i feel stupider having read it.

btw. i do see the irony in posting another useless offtopic comment here, but its not gunna stop me

is actually Nick Farrell under another account because I fail to see how even a single lifeform with more than one cell finds even one sentence that Nick Farrell writes even slightly entertaining because we know it certainly isn't based on fact.

Nice to see the inquirer balancing out the 500 dross laden anti apple nonsense based on nothing but limited intelligence and foaming at the mouth gibbering from Farrell. I guess he will have to work overtime to make up for this article for the rest of the year. Well until the institute takes him back at least.

Snow Leopard Boot with SSD drive 20 Seconds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-1DRoB1zfU

Check out how slow windows 7 is compared to Snow leopard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFRWkW1pZ6s

Mac OS X Leopard vs Snow Leopard Speed Test

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nm5bvh_ric

Don't think windows 7 can boot up this quick

Installed Snow leopard onto my 2 year old Imac 24inch Alu and now i am getting 25 second boot times and 5 second shutdown.

The whole system is alot quicker, this speed is without apps being specifically written for Snow leopard's Grand Central and Open Cl so these will be alot quicker when they are.

http://www.apple.com/uk/macosx/technology/

Very impressed done a speed test of my machine with a windows 7 unit that i also have as a test machine of higher spec than my Imac and sorry to say but Windows 7 is slow compared Snow Leopard doing the same tasks

@Seloni While it is true that the kernel defaults to 32bit, the included apps still run as 64bit if you have a 64bit cpu. A 32bit kernel means all your existing 3rd party drivers will work. If it ran as 64bit out of the box, there would be lots of people with "broken" functionality. If you know what you are doing you can force it to load a 64bit kernel. Note that SL Server default to 64bit kernel as driver issues are less of an issue and I guess it is assumed that a server admin will have more technical awareness of potential issues than a typical consumer.

That is a pragmatic decision - we get the goodness of 64bit apps today, don't have to worry about unavailable 64 bit drivers today, but developers can run the 64bit kernel to develop 64 bit drivers for the inevitable future default 64 bit kernel (10.7). Contrast this with Windows whereby to run 64bit apps you must run 64bit Windows, which can give driver headaches depending on your configuration.

Bunny Rabbits Be Warned:Snow lepoard $129 New Install. One Tight system Beats Million trinkets. UUmmmm, seems BIG gun, White CAT Fearocious, Must Have 64 Bit. BIG Uma Guma. At least complexifying mind bloggling & often meaningless pile of options are narrowed down to what works.

Now heres another HOT for mid sept. Ati was supposedly Sleeper for 5800 game cards, yet 2 TerraFlops thruput, triple display built in. What If It Does work in 3D?

ATI Eyefinity technology is something pretty cool that will be available the upcoming Radeon HD 5800 series. It allows you to extend your game view across 3 displays like the Matrox TripleHead2Go except that it gonna be much more powerful. That's over 12 megapixels at 2560 x 1600 resolution for the ultimate gaming experience. It is ideal for flight sim, racing games, role paying games, real-time strategy, first-person shooter and even multimedia apps. So how powerful exactly this card is?

This card sports a 2nd gen TeraScale engine that delivers more than 2 teraFLOPS of processing power. With so much power pack inside, it supports a new anisotropic filtering method too. If one isn't enough, you can get up to 1.8X graphics performance boost by pairing them up.

Thinke New Fresh Downie Snow with 3 40" 1080P monitors & Wwwac, Claws Blazingly cut thru Upper checks, Eyes ripped to Joyous shreds, Clciking ati MAC O/S for first Time.

Wibblie Nervous, Unwanted Helper Flies Die from Cell, Glorious Snow Leapord, White ermien Spots, GO, Go ,Go.

Its' ONE For theMAC & Two For theSHOW.
Anything for close ups of Michaels Bloodied Shirt, OOglies, Oglies of Thorp. YEA. Strike Down & EAT.

ALL While IM Michaels Ambulance CREW.

DRASHEK

Exchange support? That's the "Killer App" that will have Microsoft users leaving in droves? LMAO, ok fan boi, if that is the best that can be said for Job's innovation then I think I can be all the more happier with Windows 7.

BTW genious, you don't have to buy Office to get Outlook nor the functionality that your "killer app" now provides.

9/10 for a service pack that Microsoft gives you for free! I prefer Nick Farrell's stuff at least he points out when Apple is stuffing us around.
I take it this is the INQs token Apple Fanboy hired under equal opportunity laws.

Alt Title "See The Inquirer can have an article about Apple that is not a complete waste of time."

You say "and at least one killer app that could see disgruntled Windows users leaving the Microsoft fold in droves" and then don't expressly identify said killer app in the article?!

You forgot to write, that SL is by default a 32os with 64bit capabilities and exchange works only with 2007. I reas about a lot of trouble and constrictions with it,so far. Where is the killer feature, please.
I will wait to 10.6.1 for sure.

Cheers