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Is it "safe" to get Snow Leopard yet?

Eidorian said:
I can get Safari to crash 100% of the time when trying to upload files on 3 Macs. This is trying a clean install and upgrade. :p
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I thought it was SL too, but tibi08 apparently knows everything about everyone's Mac and says if you're having problems it must be your machine.
 
Im having 1 or 2 hiccups but id describe them as minor. Then again i don't use my macs for work purposed purely recreational so i didn't have a lot to lose by upgrading on the first day. :)
 
celticpride678 said:
I have not yet upgraded to Snow Leopard because of all the negative things about it. But I am wondering now, with all the application updates, 10.6.1 and other Apple updates, is it "safe" to upgrade to Snow Leopard. I am really looking forward to all the new features, but am happy with Leopard right now. Thanks!
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It has its little bugs here and there (half of them are 3rd party developer's faults) but overall it's very nice. Just look at the apps you use most and do some research to be sure they work on SL, and you'll be fine.

Of course, I could understand why some people would want to wait, but personally I have not had any show-stopping issues. *knock on wood*

The good news is things will only get better.
 
ss957916 said:
I thought it was SL too, but tibi08 apparently knows everything about everyone's Mac and says if you're having problems it must be your machine.
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You seem to be feeling a bit sore about you're Macbook's issues with SL. Just to clear things up, I think you should bring it to a Genius bar and get it fixed ;)
 
colourfastt said:
Haven't had a problem yet with SL .. it's quite stable. There are, of course, the usual problems with 3rd party app developers not updating their apps to work with SL, but that's not Apple's problem.
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Actually, it is Apple's problem. If software that works on 10.4/10.5 doesn't work on 10.6, that means Apple can't even maintain compatibility between their OS releases. That is Apple's problem. They (and you) have to wait for developers to port their apps to 10.6.

It would be a lot easier if Apple just made Snow Leopard compatible with 10.5 apps.

And, the nicer interpretation is that Snow Leopard is simply full of bugs. ("My God, It's full of bugs!")
 
I upgraded soon after release & I only had a minor problem with mail app after the 10.6.1 update & trashing mail prefs fixed it.
Works with all apps & hardware, hell I didn't even have to load my scanner software as it was covered in the install.
DO IT.
 
Thanks for all the responses. Now my final question is, Clean Install vs. Upgrade. Which ends up being faster and more smoother? I keep very good "care" of my Mac meaning that if I remove an app, it all gets removed. Do you still think I need a Clean Install. If I Clean Install, will my BootCamp partition be removed?
 
Amdahl said:
Actually, it is Apple's problem. If software that works on 10.4/10.5 doesn't work on 10.6, that means Apple can't even maintain compatibility between their OS releases. That is Apple's problem. They (and you) have to wait for developers to port their apps to 10.6.

It would be a lot easier if Apple just made Snow Leopard compatible with 10.5 apps.

And, the nicer interpretation is that Snow Leopard is simply full of bugs. ("My God, It's full of bugs!")
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A major point of Snow Leopard is it is cleaning out the old cruft and crap and preparing everything for the future. Apps are bound to break and it is the responsibility of the 3rd party developers to fix their apps for their customers.

Trying too hard to maintain backwards compatibility is what gets you garbage like the Windows codebase.

My personal experience with Snow Leopard is that it's been one of the smoothest updates for OS X i've done. And only one app had any bugs i've noticed which has already been updated to address those issues.
 
Tonight I went to Best Buy and picked up Snow Leopard. I installed it, upgraded immediately and it works amazingly. Install went very smooth and the computer works perfectly and I can certainly feel a little speed boost. What is the final though about 32-bit vs. 64-bit? I have not yet tried to boot into 64-bit mode, but should I? Thanks.
 
I'm still stuck with my upgraded copy of Snow Leopard. I can't revert back to 10.5.8 without losing a month of data and a clean install just loses all of my Spotlight comments.

I've been working on those since Tiger came out.
 
Eidorian said:
I'm still stuck with my upgraded copy of Snow Leopard. I can't revert back to 10.5.8 without losing a month of data and a clean install just loses all of my Spotlight comments.

I've been working on those since Tiger came out.
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Can't you use a Time Machine backup? What issues are you having with Snow Leopard.
 
celticpride678 said:
You can backup all your files and then downgrade. Am I missing something? Sorry if I am.
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I've been using Time Machine this entire time. I either lose a month of data since 10.6 or I lose my Spotlight comments since 2005.

Upgrading was the only way to preserve my Spotlight comments as well from Leopard. Migrating to Snow Leopard loses my Spotlight comments. So a clean install is out of the question.

I can't restore using my Leopard discs either or migrate from Time Machine under Leopard.
 
Eidorian said:
I've been using Time Machine this entire time. I either lose a month of data since 10.6 or I lose my Spotlight comments since 2005.

Upgrading was the only way to preserve my Spotlight comments as well from Leopard. Migrating to Snow Leopard loses my Spotlight comments. So a clean install is out of the question.

I can't restore using my Leopard discs either or migrate from Time Machine under Leopard.
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Oh, now I understand. Stinks, doesn't it? Hopefully Apple will fix your issues with upcoming releases of Snow Leopard.
 
celticpride678 said:
Oh, now I understand. Stinks, doesn't it? Hopefully Apple will fix your issues with upcoming releases of Snow Leopard.
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I'm still waiting because I'm using Windows 7 about 90% of the time right now.

I could restore back to 10.5.8 and try to get my newer data over. Then I can do a clean install of Leopard to clean out the cruft from over a year.

I've put in about 20 hours of time trying to get Snow Leopard to work.
 
Eidorian said:
I'm still waiting because I'm using Windows 7 about 90% of the time right now.

I could restore back to 10.5.8 and try to get my newer data over. Then I can do a clean install of Leopard to clean out the cruft from over a year.

I've put in about 20 hours of time trying to get Snow Leopard to work.
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So, if you do downgrade to Leopard, would you consider upgrading back after everything is worked out?
 
celticpride678 said:
So, if you do downgrade to Leopard, would you consider upgrading back after everything is worked out?
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I'd have to upgrade. I can't loose my spotlight comments otherwise there's no reason to use OS X.

The only option I'd have left is creating a new user account on a clean install and manually copying the files over. That's still a gamble as well.
 
Eidorian said:
I'd have to upgrade. I can't loose my spotlight comments otherwise there's no reason to use OS X.

The only option I'd have left is creating a new user account on a clean install and manually copying the files over. That's still a gamble as well.
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Like another user said, how about a partition for Leopard and Snow Leopard. Once Snow Leopard gets worked out, remove the Leopard partition.
 
celticpride678 said:
Like another user said, how about a partition for Leopard and Snow Leopard. Once Snow Leopard gets worked out, remove the Leopard partition.
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I couldn't care less about everything else but my Spotlight Comments. Why aren't my Spotlight comments carrying over short of using an upgrade?

I'd be using Leopard all the time anyways so there's no reason to have Snow Leopard around.
 
Dry Rot said:
If you are like me and use and like Office 2004 then Snow Leopard may not be a good idea right now.

I haven't upgraded because I've read of lots of problems with Office 2004 and Snow Leopard.
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I bought my 17" uMBP in July so I bit at Apple's $10 SL upgrade deal, well worth it. I did a clean install - erased HDD through disk utility- and have experienced ZERO problems with SL. I only use a few apps, but I can say MS Office 2004 has performed flawlessly for me so far. At the very least if it doesn't work for you , you can try neo office or open office (I think is the name), they are free.
 
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