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10.6.2 is perfect! anyone else agree?
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I agree with TheSpaz & you are the first person I have ever heard call him a troll. No offense, but I can't think of many things sorrier than wasting time on a Mac forum to repeatedly dis OS X & give kudos to Microsoft. I would just join some Windows forum & move on...
Why? I'm not a Windows fan; I use a wide range of OSes. I'm just that elusive creature that many fanbois deny exists: An Apple user that thinks, and calls them as I see them. And I especially call out fanbois (or PR flacks?) who try to enforce the RDF on everyone else.
It seems an Apple user isn't allowed to criticize a product, or suggest that it could be better. Instead, you're supposed to take whatever they throw out the door, and proclaim it the most insanely great thing since the last great thing.
Guess what? Snow Leopard is not great. That's why it's $29. It also is full of bugs. That's why it deserves criticism.
You know what else? No serious company sells you a computer with operating system and then tells you that you won't be getting security updates after 22 months unless you Pay Them Again. Apple fans, however, applause. OH, and in case you didn't upgrade to the next version, you can't buy it anymore, because we don't sell it the day we introduce the newest pile of slop. OH, and you can't use the newest version of slop, because we've decided your computer is 'too old' to run it. "PAY US AGAIN!"
Well, one of the most used features that I use, Front Row, is kind of broken and it's under Snow Leopard only.
When I watch a video or play music in Front Row, the play counts and last played dates do not update in iTunes. My MBP came with SL installed and it has been this way since day one.
To prove this is a SL only bug, I upgraded my iMac which came with Leopard on it to SL and after the upgrade, it too has this problem. Before with just Leopard, Front Row and iTunes stayed updated perfectly. I restored my iMac back to Leopard when this started happening.
Sure it's not that big of a deal to most of you but to me this is my most used feature on my Macs. I just want it to work.
When I watch a video or play music in Front Row, the play counts and last played dates do not update in iTunes. My MBP came with SL installed and it has been this way since day one.
To prove this is a SL only bug, I upgraded my iMac which came with Leopard on it to SL and after the upgrade, it too has this problem. Before with just Leopard, Front Row and iTunes stayed updated perfectly. I restored my iMac back to Leopard when this started happening.
Sure it's not that big of a deal to most of you but to me this is my most used feature on my Macs. I just want it to work.
Well, I'm pretty much the same sort of creature but between OS X & other *NIX flavors. Can't really find anything nice to say about MS Windows these days (it's making my work hell right now) so get pegged as a Linux or a Mac fanboy, but people cannot decide which. In fact today I proved Redhat on a single CPU 2MB desktop machine runs a Tomcat application at work more reliably than Windows Server on a Dell PowerEdge Blade with dual CPUs X4 cores & 16GB RAM. Such a waste of beautiful hardware!
hey guys...is anyone of you facing the problem I have here :
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/822071/
I am praying real hard that this is not the graphic card issue (I don't have apple care)..since this has started happening only after I installed 10.6.2..i am hoping that this is a 10.6.2 issue....
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/822071/
I am praying real hard that this is not the graphic card issue (I don't have apple care)..since this has started happening only after I installed 10.6.2..i am hoping that this is a 10.6.2 issue....
Guess what. Not EVERYONE has the same experience as you do. For me, Snow Leopard has been running bug free. Maybe I got lucky and haven't run into anything yet, but I'm not going to go searching for bugs just so that they'll annoy me.
I'm not a troll, I was just telling you my experience with Snow Leopard. MY experience has been a very good one and I've been really enjoying Snow Leopard with all it's little enhancements and speed.
So someone has a good experience and you think they're trolling. Nice.
Is it generally unsafe to not update? Was thinking of sticking with 10.6.1 until .3 is released but don't want to compromise the security. Sounds like .2 is a bit amiss, and at 1/2 GB.. ?
I'm not in a hurry for any particular program fix and atm not using any p2p, so..
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edit: decided to go atleast for the OSX Update & Safari Update.
My System Profiler does list 10.6.2 now, but I'm confused as to why I only seen the Safari 29.8 MB update dload (very quickly), and proceed to offer a re-start (for 2 items) but I didn't see it physically dload the OSX update which I thought I would certainly have being at ~ 158 MB. I did leave the software update open for a few hours before deciding to plunge on the 2. I wonder if the OSX Update automatically permeated through in being what is most likely considered an essential update. The restart and install did list 2 items being installed and did take atleast 5 mins. Thoughts on whether I actually obtained the OSX update?
appreciate responses to either or both, as could be useful for future updates too
I'm not in a hurry for any particular program fix and atm not using any p2p, so..
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edit: decided to go atleast for the OSX Update & Safari Update.
My System Profiler does list 10.6.2 now, but I'm confused as to why I only seen the Safari 29.8 MB update dload (very quickly), and proceed to offer a re-start (for 2 items) but I didn't see it physically dload the OSX update which I thought I would certainly have being at ~ 158 MB. I did leave the software update open for a few hours before deciding to plunge on the 2. I wonder if the OSX Update automatically permeated through in being what is most likely considered an essential update. The restart and install did list 2 items being installed and did take atleast 5 mins. Thoughts on whether I actually obtained the OSX update?
appreciate responses to either or both, as could be useful for future updates too
I am getting system hangs on several computers w/ 10.6.2
I seem to be getting system hangs on my MacBook Pro, Mac Pro and my Mac Mini since I updated to 10.6.2 This is the beach ball spinning and just nothing happening.
I see it most in Safari - now at 4.0.4 - but I have seen it in PowerPoint and with the screen saver running.
It is very random and annoying. Anyone else seeing the same problem and any advice?
I seem to be getting system hangs on my MacBook Pro, Mac Pro and my Mac Mini since I updated to 10.6.2 This is the beach ball spinning and just nothing happening.
I see it most in Safari - now at 4.0.4 - but I have seen it in PowerPoint and with the screen saver running.
It is very random and annoying. Anyone else seeing the same problem and any advice?
hey guys...is anyone of you facing the problem I have here :
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/822071/
I am praying real hard that this is not the graphic card issue (I don't have apple care)..since this has started happening only after I installed 10.6.2..i am hoping that this is a 10.6.2 issue....
Looks like it's the graphics card issue. Sorry.
However if it is, it doesn't matter if you have apple care or not, it is covered under an extended warranty as it is a known issue.
Same here, since 10.6.1. It's really annoying. But at least in 10.6.2, I can copy something from Mail and save it with TextEdit.
well...no panics since the past two days...cause I am back to good ol' Leopard...and the best part is...no beachballing either! IMO, SL is not sorted out..yet...
one thing for sure is...I dnt think I will get back to SL even after it stabilizes...cause in my case..i think its better to let sleeping dogs lie...
keeping my fingers crossed.....
I'm also perfectly happy with Snow Leopard. I don't encounter issues and I don't have any crashes or anything (knocks on wood).
And I don't use Firefox so I don't have Safari crashes either
And I don't use Firefox so I don't have Safari crashes either
If you are trying to call them as you see them, why are you resorting to misinformation? Apple just released security updates for Tiger which is over 4 years old, so why spread FUD about "22 months"?