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even at a low price), but mainly because I use my Macs for digital media work &#8211; primarily my digital photography workflow on the MacBook &#8211; and upgrading to a new operating system brings with it the risk that applications will fail to work (I already have problems with NikonScan on MacOS X 10.5 and 10.6 is likely to introduce some more issues).<\/p>\n<p>If you are, like me, primarily using your Mac for digital photography then there are a few things, that it might be useful to know before upgrading to Snow Leopard:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Applications may break.\u00c2\u00a0 Whatever your platform (Mac, Linux or Windows), a new operating system brings new functionality and, generally, retires some of the legacy API calls.\u00c2\u00a0 If your application vendor is slow (or even unwilling &#8211; yes, I mean you Nikon&#8230;) to support the new operating system release, then you may need to look at replacing applications.\u00c2\u00a0 Whereas it&#8217;s possible to virtualise applications or operating systems on other platforms, OS X is (at least legally) tied to Apple hardware and cannot (legitimately, even if you find a way to do it technically) be virtualised.<\/li>\n<li>If your application was compiled for the PowerPC architecture, it may not work on Snow Leopard&#8230; at least not until you install <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/rosetta\/\">Rosetta<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 When Apple switched to Intel\u00c2\u00a0processors, they introduced the Rosetta binary translation technology to allow PowerPC applications to run on Intel computers.\u00c2\u00a0 Rosetta has it&#8217;s limitations (performance, access to limited memory, etc.) but it was only ever intended to be a stop gap until application developers released &#8220;universal binaries&#8221; (software that will run on PowerPC or Intel architectures).\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/tmo\/article\/snow_leopard_installing_rosetta\/\">With OS X 10.6, Apple has stopped installing Rosetta by default &#8211; it&#8217;s now an optional installation<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Macs use a gamma value of 1.8, other PCs use 2.2, right?\u00c2\u00a0 Not with OS X 10.6.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT3712\">Apple has moved to standardise the gamma value to 2.2; however, if your workflow is colour sensitive, you&#8217;ll need to recalibrate your monitors to prevent images without colour profile information from appearing too dark<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Snow Leopard&#8217;s 64-bit processing is being over-sold.\u00c2\u00a0 Unless you have a MacPro, or a recent-model iMac or MacBook Pro, the chances are that your hardware can&#8217;t address all of the extra memory.\u00c2\u00a0 In theory, the double word length of a 64-bit operating system should yield some benefits, but only if the applications are also compiled to run in 64-bit mode &#8211; and it won&#8217;t be a huge performance increase.\u00c2\u00a0 Many applications aren&#8217;t yet compiled for 64-bit, including the most memory-hungry application that many digital photographers use &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2008\/04\/photoshop_lr_64.html\">Adobe Photoshop (although Lightroom is)<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 On the other hand, if you&#8217;re buying a new Mac, put as much memory in as you can (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/02\/top-quality-service-from-crucial-memory-and-a-new-mac-memory-advisor-tool.htm\">third party memory is generally less expensive than the memory that Apple will sell you<\/a>) but, also, be aware that Snow Leopard&#8217;s 64-bit mode needs to be activated manually at startup (although <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahatfullofsky.comuv.com\/English\/Programs\/SMS\/SMS.html\">a third party startup mode selector is available<\/a>)\u00c2\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/netkas.org\/?p=127\">may not even apply to your hardware, even if you have a 64-bit CPU<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure that I will move to Snow Leopard in time; however these notes may well be useful if you&#8217;re a photographer first and foremost and the whole idea about using a Mac was simplicity.\u00c2\u00a0 Don&#8217;t be fooled by the glossy cover &#8211; Snow Leopard may bite you &#8211; and, like all operating system upgrades, it needs to be handled with care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you use a Mac, the chances are that you&#8217;ve heard about a new release of the Mac operating system &#8211; OS X 10.6 &#8220;Snow Leopard&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t bought a copy yet, largely because I can&#8217;t really see any &#8220;must-have&#8221; features (increased security and improved performance is not enough &#8211; even at a low price), &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/09\/a-few-things-for-digital-photographers-to-consider-before-upgrading-a-mac-to-snow-leopard.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A few things for digital photographers to consider before upgrading a Mac to Snow Leopard<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[163,61,35],"class_list":["post-1527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-lightroom","tag-photoshop","tag-mac-os-x"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A few things for digital photographers to consider before upgrading a Mac to Snow Leopard - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/09\/a-few-things-for-digital-photographers-to-consider-before-upgrading-a-mac-to-snow-leopard.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A few things for digital photographers to consider before upgrading a Mac to Snow Leopard - markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If you use a Mac, the chances are that you&#8217;ve heard about a new release of the Mac operating system &#8211; 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