Everything New Is Actually Well-Forgotten Old

[OmegaZero_Alpha]

Your use of the term 'Service Packs' is stuck in the Microsoft world where if an OS release doesn't have a fancy name or date attached to it it must be a service pack. 10.6.4 is a service pack. 10.6 is a new OS over 10.5, with new functionality. It's the same basic kernel, and contains many of the same OS extensions 10.5 used, but the added functionality and stability is what you're purchasing. 10.6 may not have been such a huge leap as 10.5 was to 10.4, but was more than a bugfix collection.

added functionality and stability is what you're purchasing

bugfix collection.

snow leopard

Also I would have read the rest of your post but I am posting from OSX snow leopard and can't see anything over the "The all-covering floating Help Viewer"

I also enjoy 7's unbroken contextual service menus.

I also liked how on my teachers Macbook it formatted his hard drive just for logging in. I guess it saved him the trouble of having to wait for ACTUAL hard drive failure before he smashed that turd over his knee.

[supercommierussian]

Your use of the term 'Service Packs' is stuck in the Microsoft world where if an OS release doesn't have a fancy name or date attached to it it must be a service pack. 10.6.4 is a service pack. 10.6 is a new OS over 10.5, with new functionality. It's the same basic kernel, and contains many of the same OS extensions 10.5 used, but the added functionality and stability is what you're purchasing. 10.6 may not have been such a huge leap as 10.5 was to 10.4, but was more than a bugfix collection.

added functionality and stability is what you're purchasing

bugfix collection.

snow leopard

Also I would have read the rest of your post but I am posting from OSX snow leopard and can't see anything over the "The all-covering floating Help Viewer"

I also enjoy 7's unbroken contextual service menus.

I also liked how on my teachers Macbook it formatted his hard drive just for logging in. I guess it saved him the trouble of having to wait for ACTUAL hard drive failure before he smashed that turd over his knee.

Nice Tai CHi move called "Embrace Tiger, Return to Mountain" was applied in this post.

[TheDopp]

Also I would have read the rest of your post but I am posting from OSX snow leopard and can't see anything over the "The all-covering floating Help Viewer"

I also enjoy 7's unbroken contextual service menus.

I also liked how on my teachers Macbook it formatted his hard drive just for logging in. I guess it saved him the trouble of having to wait for ACTUAL hard drive failure before he smashed that turd over his knee.

-The Help Viewer? Now you're just reaching for things to make fun of.
1. You can change that behavior if it bothers you so
2. How often are you really using Help?
3. Why is having a window that floats above all others that you can resize, move and minimize bad again?
-Do you mean Contextual Services menu, or Contextual Menus as a service? The former is in Snow Leopard and the latter is part of the Apple design guide (the former is as well)
-Oh personal anecdotes, how they lend themselves so well to being proof you're right. Minus the fact the bug didn't affect many users, and only those users that for some reason logged into a guest account before their actual account after an install. Apple might not be infallible in the software bug department, but no software company is. And if you're going to mock them for an OS release screwing the pooch, go for a big one - Leopard. From the infamous losing data in Finder (tl;dr version: In a cut/paste, finder actually copies the file, pastes it, then deletes it without checking to see if the paste finishes) to the biggie: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1545?viewlocale=en_US
That was caused by a crappy bit of software used by a lot of companies, including Logitech, but affected a large amount of the user base and should have been tested for in the beta.
-trollface.jpg does not make your argument of 10.6 being a bugfix release valid.

[OmegaZero_Alpha]

Discredit something as a personal anecdote

Admit that the bug exists

That was the stupidest thing I have seen.

And the joke for the coolface was you saying that snow leopard was stable and implying it fixed more bugs than it created, by the way.

And the reason I went after snow leopard was because it did NOTHING that shouldn't have been released as a service pack.

[TheDopp]

Discredit something as a personal anecdote

Admit that the bug exists

That was the stupidest thing I have seen.

And the joke for the coolface was you saying that snow leopard was stable and implying it fixed more bugs than it created, by the way.

And the reason I went after snow leopard was because it did NOTHING that shouldn't have been released as a service pack.

Re-writing system level applications for 64 bit and adding a new framework to handle multiple cores is probably something that would be better left to something other than a service pack.

[Snarf]

When games started supporting quad cores and dual video cards they didn't ask for another 100 bucks. I shouldn't have to pay for support that should already be there.

[OmegaZero_Alpha]

Discredit something as a personal anecdote

Admit that the bug exists

That was the stupidest thing I have seen.

And the joke for the coolface was you saying that snow leopard was stable and implying it fixed more bugs than it created, by the way.

And the reason I went after snow leopard was because it did NOTHING that shouldn't have been released as a service pack.

Re-writing system level applications for 64 bit and adding a new framework to handle multiple cores is probably something that would be better left to something other than a service pack.

Wait... Oh god, its true.

Macs only got 64-bit support in 2009!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. Fuck.

[TheDopp]

When games started supporting quad cores and dual video cards they didn't ask for another 100 bucks. I shouldn't have to pay for support that should already be there.

Games = OS, of course.
The OS release costs 30 bux. 40 bux for 3 licenses. And there's a difference between 'support for' which Apple has had, and 'optimized for' which is what they wrote in.

Wait... Oh god, its true.

Macs only got 64-bit support in 2009!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. Fuck.

No, the OS has had 64-bit support for a while (prior to the Intel switch). Certain system apps/frameworks and user apps (Mail, iCal, Safari, etc) got upgraded in 10.6 to fully 64-bit.

[Snarf]

The OS release costs 30 bux. 40 bux for 3 licenses

It's like i'm really buying a game from ea!

[OmegaZero_Alpha]

No, the OS has had 64-bit support for a while (prior to the Intel switch). Certain system apps/frameworks and user apps (Mail, iCal, Safari, etc) got upgraded in 10.6 to fully 64-bit.

Mail clients and web browsers are hardly system level. And if they were it would be a huge security risk.