Buying Mac Mini 2009 but will wait until June (Snow Leopard)

[Eric S.]

Of course, then the successor to SL, Cheetah will be on the drawing board and you'd be wise to wait another 18 months for that update.

Cheetah was 10.0.

 

[AVR2]

What freezing issues are you speaking of? I had the new 2009 mac mini since day 1 and have had 0 issues in freezing

Plenty of people have reported issues with their Mac mini beachballing for no apparent reason, even when virtually new. I've seen it myself on my father-in-law's 2007 model. Maybe it's no longer a problem with the 2009 minis, but it certainly happens with some older ones, so perhaps SL will fix it for them.

 

[bartelby]

Plenty of people have reported issues with their Mac mini beachballing for no apparent reason, even when virtually new. I've seen it myself on my father-in-law's 2007 model. Maybe it's no longer a problem with the 2009 minis, but it certainly happens with some older ones, so perhaps SL will fix it for them.

My parents have never complained about beachballing and I've never witnessed it on their 2007 mini. They do have 2GB RAM in there

 

[AVR2]

My parents have never complained about beachballing and I've never witnessed it on their 2007 mini

Like I said, it happens on *some* older machines, not all of them. It's possible that those that have the standard minimum RAM are more prone to it, though.

 

[jnc]

Of course, then the successor to SL, Cheetah will be on the drawing board and you'd be wise to wait another 18 months for that update.

You mean Lion.

 

[ZunePod]

If I were you, buy your Mini now and just stick with Leopard.

Snow Leopard only brings a few tweaks, and a special UI that we don't know anything about called Marble.

 

[jmpage2]

Cheetah was 10.0.

I was tring to be a weissenheimer, maybe the next version will be called Ocelot.

 

[Eric S.]

I was tring to be a weissenheimer, maybe the next version will be called Ocelot.

Could be. Lynx and Cougar are the names Apple is supposed to have already registered. I can't see them ever naming an OS Lion, which for a big cat is relatively lazy, bloated, and slow.

 

[jmpage2]

If I were you, buy your Mini now and just stick with Leopard.

Snow Leopard only brings a few tweaks, and a special UI that we don't know anything about called Marble.

SL is a complete rewrite with completely new technologies like Grand Central and OpenCL.

Only someone completely out of touch with software technology would comment that these things qualify as "minor tweaks".

Having said that I agree that there's no reason to wait.