Mac OS X 10.6 was just released.

[kernelhaxor]

Not interested in getting it .. Still on 10.5.8

[RiceMonster]

My friend just upgraded to leopard a month ago.

Already out of date haha. Apparently this updates a lot less expensive though?

[schauerlich]

My friend just upgraded to leopard a month ago.

Already out of date haha. Apparently this updates a lot less expensive though?

Leopard was released in October 2007. Seems he was late to the game.

This upgrade is $29 as opposed to the former $129.

[KiwiNZ]

I've had some issues with Time Machine, but I've got a new external hard drive. I'm going to buy Snow Leopard sometime in the next couple days, backup and do a clean install/time machine recovery.

What issues have had with Time machine? My experience with it is very good . Totally set and forget.

[schauerlich]

What issues have had with Time machine? My experience with it is very good . Totally set and forget.

It wasn't so much an issue with Time Machine. I was backing up to a 100GB partition on a disk, with the rest of the disk used for storage (not the same data, obviously, and all stuff I didn't care about too much). When I filled up the 100GB, I tried to shuffle the partitions around, and even though it appeared to have succeeded on Windows (the partitions I was manipulating were NTFS), neither OS X nor GParted recognized the new partitions. Since I can still read it from windows, I'm moving that data over to its own hard drive, and I'm growing the Time Machine partition to use the rest of the space.

[Katalog]

It almost makes me want a Mac, until I look at Macbook prices. Then I remember I'm a college student with no job, lock myself in my room, and cry.

Don't feel too bad, I don't think you're missing out on a whole lot (and no, that is not a flame - I was formerly a strictly Mac user and still have a MacBook in the house). OS X is awful purdy, but I've found there isn't an whole lot that I can't do on Ubuntu that I was doing on my Mac. Just be patient, college won't last forever and one of these days you'll eventually be able to afford that MacBook you're longing for. Speaking of college, doesn't Apple give students some pretty significant discounts?

[Skripka]

Don't feel too bad, I don't think you're missing out on a whole lot (and no, that is not a flame - I was formerly a strictly Mac user and still have a MacBook in the house). OS X is awful purdy, but I've found there isn't an whole lot that I can't do on Ubuntu that I was doing on my Mac. Just be patient, college won't last forever and one of these days you'll eventually be able to afford that MacBook you're longing for. Speaking of college, doesn't Apple give students some pretty significant discounts?

They do...but they aren't much in the grand scheme of things. A $2300 computer being sold for $1999 is still a $2000 computer.

In all honesty-the only thing that my Powerbook I computed on for 4 years had on that none of my subsequent computers did not have was a shiny anodized aluminum case. OSX is pretty, but completely uncustomizable, even in comparison to Windows much less Linux.

[hanzomon4]

Don't feel too bad, I don't think you're missing out on a whole lot (and no, that is not a flame - I was formerly a strictly Mac user and still have a MacBook in the house). OS X is awful purdy, but I've found there isn't an whole lot that I can't do on Ubuntu that I was doing on my Mac. Just be patient, college won't last forever and one of these days you'll eventually be able to afford that MacBook you're longing for. Speaking of college, doesn't Apple give students some pretty significant discounts?

My school has a special discount. It also comes with a lot of extras so it ends up costing a bit more but the price of the laptop is like $230 cheaper then the standard edu discount. This is the current package

• Apple MacBook Pro
• 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor
• 4GB RAM
• 320GB Hard Drive
• Double-layer SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
• 15-inch widescreen glossy LED-backlit display, backlit keyboard

• Airport Extreme card and Bluetooth
• SD card slot
• Built-in 7-hour battery
• NVIDIA GeForce 9400M + 9600M GT graphics controller with 256MB RAM

• 3-year AppleCare Protection Plan
• Verbatim 250GB portable FireWire hard drive
• FireWire adapter cable
• 5-foot CAT6 Ethernet cable
• Targus Spruce EcoSmart messenger laptop bag

comes to about $2300

[MikeTheC]

I'm showing a Sept. 1 delivery date when I check the status on my order, KiwiNZ, so don't feel too bad. You're not alone!

Is it just me, or does UbuntuForums now suddenly feel snappier?

[Giant Speck]

I'm showing a Sept. 1 delivery date when I check the status on my order, KiwiNZ, so don't feel too bad. You're not alone!

Is it just me, or does UbuntuForums now suddenly feel snappier?

Are you browsing it in Safari? If so, then yes.