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by steveklabnik 5654 days ago
Are you on 10.6? If not, you're out of luck.
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babo 5654 days ago
Fine for a free application, a wise decision.
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steveklabnik 5654 days ago
Fine for any application; nobody can dictate which platforms anyone must support and which they can't.

10.6 is much nicer than 10.5 on a bunch of levels. It's slightly annoying now, but will pay off in the future.

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meric 5654 days ago
If you say so. :( That it will be worth the wait till I skip 10.6 and upgrade straight to Lion. Was looking forward to using something shiny.
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steveklabnik 5654 days ago
Why'd you skip 10.6? It was $30.
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getsat 5653 days ago
And also a HUGE improvement in a lot of different areas! Speed, especially.
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meric 5653 days ago
I'd just never gotten around to it... Nothing I used (except Kod and new Smultron) really required 10.6.
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Stormbringer 5653 days ago
It is much buggier, frequent crashes of Safari, iTunes and Mail for instance
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ubernostrum 5653 days ago
There's no such thing as a trivial OS upgrade, and so long as 10.5 is supported and runs the stuff I need to run, I don't have a compelling reason to go to the trouble of upgrading.
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fredoliveira 5653 days ago
You'll have to excuse me, but you're wrong. I mean, sure, it is an OS upgrade. But there's no real "trouble" (it takes about 20 minutes and a few clicks) and there's definitely compelling reasons to upgrade (including running 10.6 specific software). One pressing reason to upgrade: 64bit. Another one: cocoa finder. Also, faster and smaller.

Seriously, I know people who have a reason not to upgrade. You don't seem to be one of those people. Those people are on worse operating systems than you are.

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steveklabnik 5653 days ago
... except some software that's 10.6 only? ;)
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