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The problem with seeding confidentiality is that it is TRUE confidentiality whereby you cannot tell another developer (meaning a person that develops apps/enhancements) for OSX that their program causes a dead mac upon install.
I am not allowed to talk about my current experience with Snow Leopard but I can talk about things that happened last time around when Leopard was released for sale. Many people had programs that allowed you to go in and changed many things about the appearance and function of OSX, example: doing freaky things with your dock. I'm not talking about just icons. Those types of programs lead to a very messy upgrade. Think of it as jailbreaking your OSX. So based on past experience I would uninstall any of those programs.
Besides that,
Here is the best route to take for Snow Leopard:
1. Back up your computer using Superduper. Well actually, superduper makes a fully bootable clone of your hard drive. Make sure you don't do the sandbox option! Then plug in your hard drive boot from you backup by holding down the option key while your computer is starting up, ensure that everything is fully functional.
2. Preferably on another hard drive, just back up your home folder.
3. If you have the space, partition your second hard drive so that one partition just has your home folder and the other has to another full back of your entire system with either superduper or Time Machine.
4. (optional but great) Invest in Disk Warrior which is absolutely amazing and use it for any mac that is more then 1.5 years old. or 1 year old if you are a power user. When you buy it it'll do a bunch of diagnostics to your computer, then it can repair anything. Make sure you also do this to your main backup as well. It doubt it will work on a time machine backup. Its what disk utility should be. **If you don't feel like using/buy Disk Warrior, find your install disk and hold down the option key to repair your startup disk with disk utility.
5. Do a clean vanilla install of Snow Leopard and then use migration assistant to bring over your files. I would suggest just dragging over your home folder, but Snow Leopard is supposed to rip out all the PowerPC code so you have to bring your Apple Apps through migration assistant. If you've used disk warrior absolutely nothing should go wrong and things should go much faster then they would otherwise.
When Snow Leopard is finally released I'll write a new post based on my experience. This post is based on general experience of ensuring a perfect Mac when upgrading to a new OS. If anyone has questions you can shoot me a message on my profile.
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+ 10.6
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@anexanhume aka Flintheart Glomgold:
My pleasure boys! I wish I could guest blog for when SL is released based on my experience.
I am always here to answer q's! Just message me!
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It's gawker's thing and they can do with it as they please, but I've definitely stopped coming to gizmodo and the other sites as much due to my inability to express myself and be heard effectively.
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Gawker has a pretty good community, but sometimes I'm glad I don't have to see the riff-raff if I don't want to. It's nice to know that some of the more off-the-wall comments don't show up here. You should see some of the stuff unapproved posters put up!
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its like its just designed to stroke nerd egos.
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Blow hards? Wouldn't know. They've rebuffed my every advance.
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And from what I can tell, it's also not a static system, so folks can earn/lose their star depending on how they're behaving over a period of time.
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I clicked the option to show all comments ONCE and now every post I go to has all comments. It's really not that difficult.
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Oh, and why do all trolls like to use either too much or too little punctuation? And why do people insist on putting a space before exclamation points. Are you just one super troll with several U/Ns or are you just copy-catting?
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Then again apples pricing isn't really that cheap if you add the cost of buying their expensive computers or laptops, normally double the price of their competition!!!!!!
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So, it's pretty not pricey, actually.
And, grammar Nazi moment: Cut back on the exclamation points, please.
How to use exclamation points: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/11/03/
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Yeah, for limited code work. No wonder why Microsoft aren't cheap because of its "openness" in codes, yet still trying to combat hackers.
Not saying Apple's OSX is bad... but limited.
It's like seeing difference between a dog and another dog with fences and some electronic collar.
Ahh the irony in pricing in example of owning fence and electronic collar yet other way around.
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Nothing new on the user-end, but underneath there have been a lot changes. Apple is pricing it so low because they don't want any intel-based mac owners running 10.5.
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I'd rather have a device or OS that worked properly, before worrying about how "open", "closed", "proprietary" or "smug" might affect my ability to use it.
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Yeah, $30 for a service pack is awesome.
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