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Apple Begins Seeding Mac OS X 10.6.1 for Testing

aidym said:
A lot of the issues listed here are from those who have done clean installs (myself included). I did however start with an upgrade as I originally upgraded from Tiger to Leopard with no issues whatsoever, but after I upgraded to Snow Leopard my machine was unbearably slow and I only had a handful of apps installed.
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I had more problems with the clean install with user migration than just upgrading from Leopard. 😕
 
Eidorian said:
I had more problems with the clean install with user migration than just upgrading from Leopard. 😕
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As an Apple store rep told me recently:

Apple's operating systems are meant to be installed as upgrades. Why would you do a full reinstall?

(Maybe he was on to something.)
 
*LTD* said:
As an Apple store rep told me recently:

Apple's operating systems are meant to be installed as upgrades. Why would you do a full reinstall?

(Maybe he was on to something.)
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I did a clean installation to get rid of the deep system hook cruft that Parallels and Virtual Box had dug in. Not to mention a few hundred MB of dead application folders in /Library/Application Support.

I don't think to highly of what an Apple store rep says either.
 
AJ1BostonMASS said:
I just want my printer to work again. Then I will be happy.
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I wonder if these issues are Apple's fault, or the fault of the printer company that hasn't updated their drivers? It reminds me of the people left with unusable peripherals after Vista was released - it seemed like a good way for some companies to force people into buying new hardware. Let's hope that's not the case this time around!
 
*LTD* said:
I'll take a buggy OS X over a near-perfect Windows version any day. And SL seems to be just fine for the majority of users. The main complaints seem to be printer drivers, which is to be expected.

And I applaud the press for whatever it can do to damage MS' image. The more their third-rate products are exposed and ridiculed, the better. Their back-asswards, amateur copies of OS X have gotten them quite far, but these days even the most average consumer is wising up to the fact that MS has lost its edge.

A corporate/enterprise software vendor masquerading as a home/consumer vendor can only keep up the act for so long.
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i think this qualifies as an extreme fanboy and a little scary that some one can have that profound a feeling over software. I personally am a fan of technology and some of that technology i like happens to be made by apple.
 
Bjohnson33 said:
I wonder if these issues are Apple's fault, or the fault of the printer company that hasn't updated their drivers? It reminds me of the people left with unusable peripherals after Vista was released - it seemed like a good way for some companies to force people into buying new hardware. Let's hope that's not the case this time around!
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Isn't that what the consumer-industry is all and only about these days? *cough* Limited support for "old" 64-bit capable hardware, anyone? :apple: *cough*
 
Bjohnson33 said:
I wonder if these issues are Apple's fault, or the fault of the printer company that hasn't updated their drivers? It reminds me of the people left with unusable peripherals after Vista was released - it seemed like a good way for some companies to force people into buying new hardware. Let's hope that's not the case this time around!
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Well I refreshed my printer preferences twice and the second time it worked so I do not know!
 
*LTD* said:
Apple's operating systems are meant to be installed as upgrades. Why would you do a full reinstall?
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Maybe because your old system has Adobe installed and you're not been informed that upgrading to SL breaks the licensing engine (at least mine broke). There was little choice after finding out CS3 was not going to launch, even after reinstall.

All of you still not upgraded and have Adobe software installed, REMOVE them entirely and install again after upgrade.
 
I upgraded to SL and the only things I noticed was: Parallels went off, and Rapidweaver plugins are working buggy... but I can live with that very happy!
 
*LTD* said:
As an Apple store rep told me recently:

Apple's operating systems are meant to be installed as upgrades. Why would you do a full reinstall?

(Maybe he was on to something.)
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Every time Apple release a new OS I do a quick-and-dirty upgrade initially just to check it out. Then when I have a day off I wipe and do a clean install. The clean installs always run better, especially with Snow Leopard. The thing is way faster after a clean install.
 
I was seriously thinking to return the SL and get my money back, but I'll wait for 10.6.1 version and see what happens.

When I work on one thing at a time I don't see any major issue but occasional lags.
Once I start working on different programs, it starts to be sluggish when launching windows.

They really need to look at VMware Fusion and installing windows on a Mac, something goes wrong with that.
 
So, i'm not the only one......

hhaeschen said:
I really hope they hurry! I do have some bugs since 10.6.

Most annoying:
- Graphical issues when choosing a page from Safari's "top pages" feature
- When the dock is hidden the Mail icon doesn't bounce every time I get an email as it should, it only does that every once in a while. 🙁
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When i called Apple about those (Graphical issues when choosing a page from Safari's "top pages" feature), they told me it was the first time the heard that.

I also can't with my HP printer when hooked up to my Airport Extreme.

Come on Apple !!!!!
 
full moon said:
Vista worked with Mac OS 10.5 leopard seamlessly, but now it freezes.
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That doesn't mean it's Apple's bug to squish. VMware needs to update it software if there is an incompatibility issue. Developers have to follow the path of the OS, not the other way around. If code in the new OS is different, the developers need to adapt.

VMware works fine for me on SL (XP, Vista, and 7).
 
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