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Creative Professionals and Snow Leopard - will you be upgrading?

Creative Professionals, are you worried about upgrading to SL?

  • Yes.. I'm gonna hold of for now.

    Votes: 22 28.9%

  • Yes.. Still upgrading

    Votes: 15 19.7%

  • No.. Not worried, Apple knows what they're doing.

    Votes: 27 35.5%

  • No.. Not Upgrading.

    Votes: 6 7.9%

  • Errr... What you on about?

    Votes: 6 7.9%
  • Total voters
    76
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I know hundreds of users on those forums are looking forward to the forthcoming release of Snow Leopard but how many professional users here will actually be upgrading? Even though they have after-market hardware and peripherals attached.

..ain't you worried the upgrade will cause more problems to your work flow than actual good?

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Umm.. I am. Cause as usual, I know DigiDesign's ProTools will break, CoreAudio application is already unstable.
I hate to see what will happen under SL. My internal Raid solution might encounter driver issues
and I'm not sure about various other peripherals.

How about you???
 
Already pre-ordered it. Although I might wait a week or two until I actually install it cause I am working on a project at the moment.
 
I pre-ordered SL today, but I will wait awhile before installing it on my main computer (Mac Pro) because I, too, am in the middle of projects.

I also have an Up-to-date disc coming for my fiancee's 13" MBP; I will install it on that machine right away, just to satisfy my curiosity/excitement.
 
I'll install it at home, at in work we're still using Tiger – we never had a compelling reason to switch 10.5.
 
It's just a slimmed down (not UB) version of 10.5.8 with a few new features and two new frameworks. Upgrading will be as seamless and trouble-free as from 10.5.5 or something to 10.5.8. Not sweating anything here. It's all good.

OS X is not Windows so new versions are NOT radical departures into the realms of incompatibility like MS OS's are.
 
Sadly it won't work on my beloved G5, so the answer's No (or can't) :eek:

However, I never update my main machine (even point updates) until a) I'm sure that all my software's compatible, and b) I've got time in my schedule to troubleshoot problems.
 
Tesselator said:
It's just a slimmed down (not UB) version of 10.5.8 with a few new features and two new frameworks. Upgrading will be as seamless and trouble-free as from 10.5.5 or something to 10.5.8. Not sweating anything here. It's all good.

OS X is not Windows so new versions are NOT radical departures into the realms of incompatibility like MS OS's are.
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Hopefully this is true and there are no compatibility issues.

But DigiDesign will definitely break and then take 1 year to upgrade.
I hope none of my 3rd part VST's and synth softwares break :(
I will still hold back a month, before the upgrade, for audio atleast.

I waited a year to jump to Leopard, until all companies supported it :confused:
 
Core Audio for me has never been unstable.

Pro tools is absolutely bunk, a lot of larger studios (at least in London) are slowly moving over to Logic.

I'm sure Logic 9 will work fine with SL, 99% of my third party apps and plugins worked fine with Leopard when I first upgraded (granted this was 10.5.2 but I hadn't upgraded my plugins and apps before that)

I'm buying a new hd to act as a boot drive and using my one currently as a audio scratch drive. I'll put SL on the new one and transfer the files. If it works, I'll wipe my current one, if not then I'll just wait till it is.
 
sochet said:
Core Audio for me has never been unstable.

Pro tools is absolutely bunk, a lot of larger studios (at least in London) are slowly moving over to Logic.

I'm sure Logic 9 will work fine with SL, 99% of my third party apps and plugins worked fine with Leopard when I first upgraded (granted this was 10.5.2 but I hadn't upgraded my plugins and apps before that)

I'm buying a new hd to act as a boot drive and using my one currently as a audio scratch drive. I'll put SL on the new one and transfer the files. If it works, I'll wipe my current one, if not then I'll just wait till it is.
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Given audio use, have you considered going to SSD for random access throughput?
 
I'll be upgrading Friday

on my Mac I use for development and Photoshop work that the wife wants me to help with. Will see how it goes before I upgrade wifes Mac.
 
I don't know yet. I usually wait a while and see what problems start appearing online. I'm hoping that since this is just a better version of Leopard, that everything that works in Leopard will work in Snow Leopard.
 
I've been told to NOT upgrade to SL if you are running FCP7.

I don't know about older versions (I run 6), but I'm not chancing it. I will stay w/ Leopard until I get the all clear.
 
Logic 9 will definitely run :cool:
Yeah, most studios in UK are running Logic now. I just wish Logic could be slaved to Ableton Live.

Would be interesting to see CPU usage differences in Logic with SL.

I hope Ableton doesn't break under SL. :(
 
iBeard said:
I've been told to NOT upgrade to SL if you are running FCP7.

I don't know about older versions (I run 6), but I'm not chancing it. I will stay w/ Leopard until I get the all clear.
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Where did you hear that?

If anything, I'd expect Apple's FCS3 suite to work flawlessly since it was released a month ago (aka, I'm sure Apple had Snow Leopard in mind while making it, minus the 64 Bit code)
 
Ordered it yesterday but definitely going to have to wait for a month or 2... in the middle of editing a film...
 
iBeard said:
I've been told to NOT upgrade to SL if you are running FCP7.

I don't know about older versions (I run 6), but I'm not chancing it. I will stay w/ Leopard until I get the all clear.
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I'm not using FCP but I am using PP CS4 and i'm thinking it'll break!!
 
I'm got 2 copies of SL on preorder one for my mac pro and one for my macbook still deciding if to upgrade from tiger on my imac. Just hope cs4 and all my projects are safe, and please let FCP7 work!
 
Graphic Design and Web Pro here.


Quad 2.66 2006 Mac Pro (THE ORIGINAL!!!!!!!)


I will be upgrading right away. I have everything backed up and bootable externals of my OS, I have nothing to fear but fear itself. Frankly, I welcome our new Snow Leopard Overlords.
 
not yet.

I work with FCP and (Gasp!!!) Avid Media Composer. While I haven't heard of any adverse effects upgrading with FCP Studio 2, my Avid console still has to run on a Tiger (10.4). So now Avid will be two upgrades behind...But if your not sleeping with the enemy (I can't help its still about 90% of the industry), you should be fine.
 
If CS3 isn't broken (I don't want to upgrade until CS5), I will. Who told you not to upgrade if you were using FCP7?
 
Ive had loads of issues with Logic Studio 9 thus far(most of it was my fault loll) , so i am using a clean install of snow leopard to get everything intact.

A few apps i use are on that list, but none of them for music production. Just tiny apps that i use every so often. I am sure they will be updated when i plan to use them next.
 
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