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is SL as bad as everyone is saying?
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No, Snow Leopard is not that bad. I upgraded (no clean installs) 4 machines with no major issues. Each machine took about 45 mintues to upgrade. When done, all were working fine.
I did have to upgrade a few third party applications and drivers but that's about it.
I did have to upgrade a few third party applications and drivers but that's about it.
Safari is slower?! It's snappier for me. Also I got back about 50gbs of HD space 
(it's 640gb hard drive).
(it's 640gb hard drive).
If you're expecting lots of new stuff in SL, you'll be disappointed.
Other than that, it's definitely speedier than regular Leopard.
Other than that, it's definitely speedier than regular Leopard.
Unless you compared bytes, that 10 GB is false. It's probably more like what Apple advertised. SL counts GB differently. That's right, you who got something crazy like 50 GB only got back a few GB due to the way SL counts GB.
My only beefs are Safari and GarageBand '08 are both pretty volatile. Safari crashes just about once a day, and GB is a crapshoot.
You must be using EyeTV 2.0? I have 3.0 and it runs beautifully, however I have a 24" iMac and it's my only and main TV in my home as I no longer use conventional TV's so for me I would pay to upgrade my EyeTV if I am actually going to use it. I can assure you it runs without a hitch in SL.
Yeah yeah, I know, GB vs GiB.
But 7GB = about 7.5GiB, so there's still more space coming back. Not that I care about a few measly GB (man, imagine saying that 10 years ago).
I'm not an idiot, so a little offense taken, but I'll get over it.
The single machine in question is the only one of several used for work that we chose to upgrade as a test, and the advertised advances should have been worth the upgrade. We buy tools to get the job done, and when better tools come out that should make our work more productive we buy those. In this case I was shocked at just how much stuff became broken with this update. Normally downgrading or restoring to the previous version isn't that big of a deal, and honestly in all the years of doing this stuff I've never had to downgrade an OS. There were a couple hiccups in the restore, but we got it done and back to 10.5
I will have to choose another machine to upgrade down the line and work out these bugs when I have more time to do so, but I don't see all the machines migrating to 10.6 any time soon.
Everything is running great. No problems at all. A few apps had to be updated to run under SL, but that is all.
I love SL! Works much better than Leopard.
- Spotlight doesn't randomly crash or beachball at me.
- Apps load faster
- Shutdown WAY FASTER
- Wakes and finds Wifi WAY FASTER
- Safari is snappier (especially Top Sites where it's actually usable now)
That's just naming a few.
dL
- Spotlight doesn't randomly crash or beachball at me.
- Apps load faster
- Shutdown WAY FASTER
- Wakes and finds Wifi WAY FASTER
- Safari is snappier (especially Top Sites where it's actually usable now)
That's just naming a few.
dL
10.6 > 10.5.8 IMO. It is snappier, and seems more stable. YMMV of course but for me and for my SO it has been a painless upgrade. Both our MacBooks are more responsive. Dunno what to do with my G4 now. I want a Mac Pro to replace it but cannot justify one. However I am thinking it will make a nice box for some commodity PC hardware and a good Linux/BSD server.
So far so good for me. I did a clean install, and restored from time machine. And everything is working great. I have not had a crash yet, and the whole system seems not to lag as much. Very happy so far.
Goooooo Apple!
Goooooo Apple!
Standard upgrade install for me and no problems save for Europa Universalis, whose screen flickers madly.
