[DM-MUG] Snow Leopard Review and tidbits

[Jon Thompson]

Holding shift on a animation has been part of the OS since the first  
demonstration of Aqua in 2000. It's called "Steve Mode" as Steve used  
it to show off the animations when they were fresh and new.

Anyhow, the article that Bailey posted is an excellent one. Bottom  
line is this, if your computer can support Snowy, get it. Maybe not  
today, maybe not until 10.6.1 and applications have been updated to  
support it. However, there is going to be a time _soon_ where new  
software won't run on anything but 10.6 or greater. The under the hood  
changes are that drastic, and that rewarding in terms of application  
performance. I've seen a video where a calculation has gone from 60  
seconds to .18 second, just by using the tech that Apple has in Snowy.

Applications are going to be written for this tech. It's priced to not  
be a hinderance to the wallet. Wait until your software runs on it,  
then go for it. It's worth $30.

On Sep 1, 2009, at 4:20 PM, Victoria L. Herring wrote:

>> Secondly, I thought I'd share a tiny thing I found with the group.
>> Have you ever minimized a window on your mac while holding the shift
>> key down? If you've never done it, I say go for it right now (shift
>> key down and click the orange button in the upper left corner of a
>> window) It's just nifty.
>
> I just did it and this was on a pre-Snowie machine...it is way cool  
> anyway tho.
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