Snow Leopard seen in the wild

..must be nice to pull articles out of your ass on any topic, and not have to bother with actual research, Nick.

"In other words.. I made this up"

.... cash as people will be forking out for windows 7 however!

I really do hate all this "fanboy" talk.

we ask "is Nick Farrell the laziest journo in existence?" A small amount of research wouldn't have come amiss. You know, for facts like what Snow Leopard's design goals actually are? Obviously no-one is interested in it being lots smaller (in RAM and disk), faster, supporting more memory, adding OpenCL support and the mysterious "Grand Central" to make better use of multiple CPU cores.

Please for the love on god raise your game. Playing the antagonists roll is fine if there are revelations. Its a good question to ask.. why not release a perfect OS the first time?

But when you consider your question is that really a reasonable suggestion.

Try to make it more interesting...

For example, Apple has a much small release cycle compared to Microsoft (which Microsoft seems to be trying to adopt) so to some extent Apple is limited by time. But it is alot cheaper than going from Xp to Vista and how long did you wait for Vista.

I am genuinely excited about both Win 7 and OS X Snow, I currently use XP 64 and Leopard on one machine using the advantages of each os for the task at hand. I can wait to see how much of an improvement Win 7/Snow will be and getting more out of my system.

mmmm and now I cant be bothered to tie this all up

While I do for a large part agree that, "Snow Leopard is to Leopard what Windows 7 is to Vista" Snow Leopard is moving the OS even further into 64bit and will now support read/write to the ZFS file system.
I have used both Vista and Leopard and one thing about stability. OS X never came down unlike Vista that had several hard crashes to include 2 blue screens of death and told me it was drivers. So I repeat, OS X never came down.

ohhhhhhhh nick you troll.

Fanboys parting with huge amounts of cash. HARDLY. Let me see, Windows Vista from the MS site (UK), four versions priced at £137/£166/£215/£225 Full version of Mac OS 10.5.6 (one version) £83. Who's parting with huge amounts of cash? I use Vista at work and Mac OS at home, have had no trouble at all with the Mac (is worked harder with huge 40mega pixel negative scans) and only minor problems with Vista, nothing to worry about there. All this Mac/PC slagging off is just a waste of time.

I normally love Nick Farrel's articles. He might be a torn in the backside for the blatant and totally ridiculous Apple fanboys, but his articles generally, but imho sadly not in this case, hit the spot.

Press like Engadget and others are totally anesthetized by Apple's ridiculous aura of mystery and their journalists keep electing themselves as lawyers and defenders of the Truth... Mind you, the same journalists who spot their underwear in a leopardesque fashion fearing that Apple's robocops in shining glass armour will come and knock at their doors. What an immense load of fudge brownies. At least Nick blurts down what he really thinks about all the brainwashing going on in the rest of the press. Do I agree with him on this latest article? No, because Snow Leopard packs too many technological advancements in order to be classified as a minor, free update.

Will I agree with Nick when he will write his next article mocking at the fanboys in tears and blowing their noses with the EULA of Apple and sobbing that Snow Leopard is !not! supposed to work on a faster PeeCee... Bohoo bohoo? Yes, in that case I will agree at 100% :)