I don't know if the devs have access to the latest builds, so I figured I'd offer myself as a beta-tester if there is anything they feel would need testing on SL. Anything I can help with, it'd be a pleasure.

I will probably upgrade too . Not that it is a vo issue, but my main concern is that snow may drop rosetta support. That would kill appleworks 6 , and I have an extensive db.

Perhaps we would be best continuing this in the OS X forum ?

SL is not killing rosetta support... per-say. You're apps will all still work, not to worry :).

And sure, if a mod would move this to the OS X forum (as the devs don't seem interested :), please move this thread.

While Snow Leopard will only run on Intel-based hardware, whether Rosetta will be removed is an unknown at this point. There was this rumor from late 2008, but even if that's the case, Rosetta would still be optional, so AppleWorks would continue to function just fine if you needed it to.

Unfortunately, at this point no one can say whether Rosetta is in or out without breaking the terms of Apple's NDA -- and even if they do so, there's always the caveat that Snow Leopard's featureset is, in Apple's own words, "subject to change." (Of course, this close to release, I doubt they'd leave Rosetta in the developer seeds but pull it from the final retail edition... still, one never knows.)

I'm pretty sure that previous leaks have mentioned that Rosetta remaining onboard. I have no reason to doubt those rumors.

Hope they offer a 64bit Mac build

With all the GCD fixins

Anyways, Since it is released now I can finally comment.

Snow leopard works fine with VO. I haven't seen any problems since I started using it

Aye, a few mouseclicks for a seamless snow installation . Vo works perfectly.

Click on an appleworks document, with the snow installation disc out of the computer.

" This requires rosetta. would you like to install it? " click. And there it was. A working Appleworks.

So far I haven't found anything that doesn't work.

I just upgraded to Snow Leopard, and Vendetta has taken a massive dive in performance. I don't know what's going on, but it went from being completely smooth to being unplayably jerky.

What are your specs? That might have something to do with it.

And oo yay, new ipod range :)

Macbook (Unibody) 2.4GHz, 2GB RAM.

It's not a unique problem. Apparently OpenGL performance has been halved in Snow Leopard as compared with Leopard. Very unfortunate -- certainly takes Vendetta off the table for the moment until they fix that.

Nambi... I'm not sure that's right. You might want to call applecare.

Unfortunately, it is. Check out the benchmarks for Snow Leopard versus Leopard. While there is a nice 8-9% CPU performance increase, OpenGL performance has been slaughtered. I'll wait for a fix.

So, what's the word? Does VO work well on SL? I've been contemplating purchasing a macbook and I'd like to know whether or not VO will work on it.

I've been running it on a macbook pro for 5 months... running like a charm.

It works very well for me, under 10.6. If only the snow didn't kill or cripple so many apps (I can name 3 to date, 2 of them essential to me).

The most recent update (10.6.2) fixes OpenGL performance immensely. Vendetta has become playable again at 1920x1080. Whew!

Vendetta runs perfectly on a Dell Mini 10v with Snow Leopard..

I'm not going to upgrade yet... Leopards working fine and faster than I need at the moment... Until most of the essential apps that I used are Snow Leopard ticked, I'm staying with the jungle variety.

For $29 bucks, no reason to hold out :). Plus, it's faster!