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From: JF Mezei on 3 Nov 2009 17:25
Richard Maine wrote:

> I bet there were a lot of temporary files cleaned up during the install.

Yeah. That system had been up for quite some time already, so there
would have been a fair amount of crud. Also, it is likely that there
were large page/swap files that got zapped at reboot.

BTW, I checked the temperature and when iddle, the air coming out the
back of the MacPro really does seem cooler.

Isn't Snow Leopard the first OS to come out after the Xeon Nehalem
generation ? Perhaps they have begun to use energy saving capabilities
of that chip. I know that Apple advertises significant energy savings
for the Xserve (same techology).
From: Steve Hix on 3 Nov 2009 18:58
In article <2009110311445575249-not(a)dotcom>,
thepixelfreak <not(a)dot.com> wrote:

> On 2009-11-01 19:01:06 -0800, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> said:
>
> > First the good news (and this time in bytes to remove that confusion
> > about what a kilobyte/megabyte is).
> >
> > Before: 294 895 489 024 bytes used.
> > After : 281 475 276 800 bytes used.
>
> Mostly smoke and mirrors. Apple now considers a MB to be 1000^3, where
> the rest of the computer science world continues to understand a MB as
> 1024^3.

Except for large parts of the hardware side of the business.

Hard drive makers have been documenting drive capacity this way for the
better part of a decade, at least. It's not just Apple deciding one
morning to confuse the rest of the world.

> Granted some savings come from not installing every printer driver
> under the sun _AND_ not having Universal binaries.
From: Steven Fisher on 3 Nov 2009 22:55
In article <2009110311445575249-not(a)dotcom>,
thepixelfreak <not(a)dot.com> wrote:

> On 2009-11-01 19:01:06 -0800, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> said:
>
> > First the good news (and this time in bytes to remove that confusion
> > about what a kilobyte/megabyte is).
> >
> > Before: 294 895 489 024 bytes used.
> > After : 281 475 276 800 bytes used.
>
> Mostly smoke and mirrors. Apple now considers a MB to be 1000^3, where
> the rest of the computer science world continues to understand a MB as
> 1024^3.

Oh, hey, did you notice where he showed the count in bytes instead of MB
or GB? So base 10 or base 2 makes no difference.


Steve
From: JF Mezei on 4 Nov 2009 02:13
First hour of really using the mac since the upgrade:

Numbers has had a spinning ball requiring "Force Quit".

And now Firefox has a spinning ball in a "browse" button to select a
file to upload.

Also, is it my imagination of does stuffit expander now add the text
"Folder" to the name of a folder ?

for instance:

091103_TN_BA242-BC7181-Interrogs_ABR Folder

Did snow leopard update that application or is "Folder" now added under
the table by the OS even when the application doesn't specify it ?
From: Marc Heusser on 4 Nov 2009 05:55
In article <00aa403e$0$6703$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>,
JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> wrote:

> First hour of really using the mac since the upgrade:

Recommended reading (both before and after update to SnowLeopard):

SnowChecker at http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/snowchecker
(Data from http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/)

HTH

Marc

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