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Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.6.1

Finally Got It To Work

I finally got my AT&T USB 881 aircard to work with 10.6.1. This was one of the fixes that 10.6.1 was supposed to fix, incompatibility with USB aircards. I blame a lot of this on SierraWireless. When I was ready to buy SL, I emailed the company is my present software compatible with SL. No, they said, download this build. I did. I installed SL. I got a fatal error. No internet connectivity. I sent a nasty gram to SierraWatcher. They happily informed me there was a "new" build. I installed it, nice new interface. The company swore up and down with this new update and 10.6.1, you should be good to go. I reinstalled SL, added 10.6.1, and after thoroughly purging my hard drive of all old copies of Sierra Watcher, I finally got Sierra Watcher and Snow Leopard to play nicely together.
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Are Expose/Spaces animations still choppy on the 9400? Oh and, is there an option for old Expose now?

I'm guessing the answer to both of these will be no :(.
 
fleshman03 said:
Oh man, you're gonna set him off. Soon, he'll get all town-hall on you!

All kidding aside, I can understand how he's not thrilled since there are some PPCs that I'd rather have over a MM or MacBook. But he did buy at a bad time and the world has moved on. Imagine how all the people felt who bought HD-DVDs right before they WB Dropped out of making them?
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Yeah, I was the same way too about PPCs until my early 2006 Dual 2.5 Ghz PowerPC G5 died on me. Here I had the youngest Mac in the house (I have one of the first iMacs that came out that my 5 year old uses, a G4 and a Mac IIsi that I used many, many years ago- all still running) and it died on my. But in the end, that horror is what brought me to my brand new 2.93 Ghz Quad-Core Mac Pro that I have now.

I kept on reading on several forums where people where having problems with these dual core G5s. But I got to say. I am really liking Snow Leopard. For me, after having so many headaches and heartaches with my old G5 running Leopard in the last year or so, this has been a really nice breath of fresh air.
 
Burnsey said:
Oh please. I upgraded to Leopard from Tiger, with all my applications in place. Leopard alone doubled my boot time from Tiger, and every subsequent update made it worse. I usually have little to no login items.
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Dozens of more background services have been added to Leopard and Snow Leopard since Tiger.

Hell, even lookupd doesn't exist remotely like it did in Tiger.
 
ElBerserko said:
There is no reason to be concerned or to trick the installer into giving you the bigger update. Software update picks the right update for your situation. The 10MB update isn't missing anything.

From http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1228:
"Sometimes, Software Update preferences is able to offer a "smaller-sized Delta" update than you might expect, or smaller than what you might see on other computers installing the same update. The "smaller Delta" updates are offered when some Mac OS X system files can be modified instead of replaced in their entirety."

"Sometimes, modifications made to Mac OS X system files, including ones made by third-party products, may require the installation of a full sized version of a Mac OS X software update. Again, you don't have to worry about figuring out which kind of update is best for you, just let Software Update preferences do the work."
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I wasn't trying to 'trick' the Software Update. However, if it shows a 9MB update before I upgrade Adobe's Flash Player and 75MB after, it seems obvious that the 9MB is just the Adobe update and that it likely has to install this first. On completion, it likely will require a second update - this time the full 75MB one.
 
terriyaki said:
Are Expose/Spaces animations still choppy on the 9400? Oh and, is there an option for old Expose now?

I'm guessing the answer to both of these will be no :(.
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Still choppy for me. Also, top sites in Safari still gives the weird vertical bands on the page when it loads up.
 
Printer drivers and Snow Leopard: possible general workaround

If drivers for your printer do not show up in Snow Leopard, and there is no option for a generic driver (that you can use until original ones arrive), then you might be in luck if you've got your Leopard disc handy.

Insert your Leopard disc, and then click on Optional Installs. Then in the next window you might have to click on Optional Installs again. From the new Window, select Printer drivers. Select the appropriate brand, and then install.

So really, we're trying to use Leopard drivers here, moved from your Leopard disc onto Snow Leopard.

If you're in luck, usable drivers might show up in your System Preferences, or perhaps a generic driver that will work.

Best of luck!
 
zub3qin said:
Still choppy for me. Also, top sites in Safari still gives the weird vertical bands on the page when it loads up.
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This update seemed to have solved the banding issue I was having with a new tab was opening in Safari. Also, my MacbookPro was running very sluggish after the 10.6 update, but with 10.6.1, things seem to have gotten resolved and run much smoother. I am on a mid '07 MBP.
 
Any help with Internet Sharing? My home network has been a token ring since the SL update-- whatever machine holds the token must reboot.
 
10.6.1 still has problems...

Still no audio when doing a/v chat in ichat with my 10.5 friends. Still have postscript errors with my HP1006 printer. Still have random Flash 8 problems - some graphics and fonts have moved about 4 pixels down from their original placement after to upgrading to 10.6. If you have CS3, try opening some of your Flash 8 files and you'll notice some things have moved around.
 
eoren1 said:
So mine showed as 9MB. I remembered I had downloaded the Adobe flash player but not updated it. I closed the software update, installed the flash player update and then reran software update. It now shows the file size as 75MB. I wonder if the update will do the 9MB flash update first and, when rerun, do the 75MB upgrade. For all those concerned about the 9MB update, go ahead and update the flash player first and you should be all set.
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Mine showed as 9 MB, as well, but I had not downloaded or updated the Flash player. Running the update did not upgrade flash, either.
 
electronboy said:
Even after 10.6.1 I still can't print to my HP LaserJet P1006. I have tried all possible solutions and no go. While, I am an IT professional, I may have missed some solution, but I don't believe so. I just get a different error message this time. :mad:
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I have the same printer as well, do the below steps and it will work:

1. Download driver from this link: http://download.driverscollection.c...Printers/LJP1000_P1500_OSX_ful_sol-v1.0.4.dmg
2. goto system preferences
3. printer & fax
4. right click above the +- on the right side where you add printers and reset printer system... *( This will clear all other drivers )
5. with the printer on, install the printer driver you downloaded
6. the go back to printer& fax in system preferences and add the p1006 printer
7. it will select the P1006 printer with auto select,then choose ok
8. restart your Mac
 
gr8phan said:
Mine showed as 9 MB, as well, but I had not downloaded or updated the Flash player. Running the update did not upgrade flash, either.
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Did you try running the update again to see if it has anything else to install after the initial 9MB?
 
eoren1 said:
Did you try running the update again to see if it has anything else to install after the initial 9MB?
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Yes. Then I realized that I had not booted into 64-bit, so I did and ran it again - nothing. I'm not really concerned, just sharing some details.
 
Anyone have issues with this update?

I installed the update and the computer rebooted, but now it just hangs at a blue screen with the spinning dial/dash marks.
 
gmcalpin said:
It's a moot point now, but if you'd just done a clean reinstall, Leopard would've gotten back up to speed.

My G5 started to get a little sluggish somewhere in the 10.5.4 range and I just reinstalled everything. It was as snappy as the day I got it afterwards (unsurprisingly).
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This is called 'fragmentation.' You can also fix it with a 'defragmenter.'
 
terriyaki said:
Are Expose/Spaces animations still choppy on the 9400? Oh and, is there an option for old Expose now?

I'm guessing the answer to both of these will be no :(.
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I have zero choppyness on 10.6.0 using 9400M. (2.4Ghz 4GBram late 2008 15" MBP.) Weird, many of you are.

I just wish the blue highlight color would be the same as your selected color for highlights (ie. green, orange, ...)
 
ElBerserko said:
There is no reason to be concerned or to trick the installer into giving you the bigger update. Software update picks the right update for your situation. The 10MB update isn't missing anything.

"Sometimes, modifications made to Mac OS X system files, including ones made by third-party products, may require the installation of a full sized version of a Mac OS X software update.
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I think this may be it ... If you have not updated the flash plugin manually and have the 10.6.0 flash files, the small update can patch them. The manual update of flash to the latest version prior to applying 10.6.1 requires the full update since the updater does not see the 10.6.0 flash files and cannot simply patch them.
 
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