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Mac OS X Snow Leopard Officially Launched Today

Install was smooth; love new feature.

I waited anxiously for the FedEx driver to show up today. Didn't dare shower even. My copy arrived and I set to installing it. It took me 55 minutes (2.4 Ghz macbook) to do the install. I had heard the footprint was smaller, but was surprised to see 13.69 GB freed up.

My favorite feature, so far anyway, is the expose built into the dock. Many times I'll have a mail message in progress and go on to another task. Then when I click the mail icon in the dock, it brings me to the main mail screen and I have to look for the message I was writing. Now by clicking and holding the mail icon, it shows me all mail windows that are open and lets me go directly to the message in progress.
 
When I stepped into line at the Apple Store in Portland, OR, I was 6th (at around 10:30am). About a five minute wait. They were letting in five at a time for the those purchasing SL. And there was a second line, moving much slower, for people who just wanted to browse and shop. (I did want to have my power cord looked at, since the rubber recently came apart just beneath the part that connects to the computer, and so wires are exposed. But they were too busy!)

Now I need to get off work so I can install it!!
 
Dayv said:
Neither does mine. It still says "Not yet shipped" and "Ships: By August 28th." I honestly thought it would get here today, based on people's anecdotes of the last release...
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This is an Up-to-Date disc from Apple, BTW. Looks like I'm not alone here. Oh well, like someone said, my computer works just as well as it did yesterday. I'm just impatient.
 
Upgrade Smooth!

The upgrade went smooth! Took about 45 minutes from start till finish!
At first glance the graphics are now sharper and brighter! Very nice! Also a noticeable speed increase! I'll post more info once I play around a bit!
 
Bought my copy at Best Buy today. The mac area was empty as usual with pretty much everyone browsing through the PC area. I was in and out in a matter of minutes. I can't wait to install this sucker! :D
 
Can Anybody tell me if the Up-to-Date Discs are machine specific. For example the leopard disk included with my late 2008 Macbook Pro wont work on my friends, different, machine.

I ordered an Up-to-Date for my more recently purchased Air and it hasn't arrived yet. Thinking about just heading down to 14th street.:rolleyes:
 
Macintosh Sauce said:
That's exactly why I don't get any Mac OS X release through anyone else except Apple. Apple promises getting the new OS on the day of the release - mine is at home waiting for me. Amazon receives their stock the day before or the day of the release. Usually it is the latter though.

If you buy a lot of stuff from Amazon get Amazon Prime membership - costs $79.99 a year. It's worth it IMO. I get everything shipped two day shipping for free. If I want something overnight it only costs me an extra $3.99 per item. For things that I need now, I get overnight shipping. That's rare though. I do order lots of organic foods off of Amazon and all free with Prime shipping. Totally worth it!
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Yeah it just on May 6th I bought MobileMe from Amazon for $68.49 plus $8.98 it came by FEDEX 2-Day on May 8th, so I assume that 2-Day was FEDEX Delivery. I can accept it coming Tuesday but not by UPS if it would have came today I wouldn't be mad, but Amazon.com justifying $8.98 for using UPS Ground for FEDEX 2-Day Delivery isn't right. UPS Ground delivers the same timeframe if its that close to the warehouse.
 
Picked up a family pack from the Town Square Apple Store in Las Vegas with a buddy of mine that also grabbed his copy.

SuperDuper! is cloning my current machine as we speak and I'll be doing a clean install in an hour or two. Then comes the painful process of installing everything else. (MacPorts, CS4, Textmate, iWork, iLife, Firefox, Adium... and that's just the start!)
 
anikgol said:
Any one else not having the improved battery menu in 10.6?

i cant see the new condition info in the menu.
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I dont see it either.... does anyone know if you have to enable the "advanced" battery info?
 
Wakakanada said:
I got my copy at lunchbreak and am trapped in my office with the picture of that accursed snow leopard taunting me while all the others in earlier timezones are already home merrily upgrading... Curse you snow leopard!;)
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trekkie604 said:
woot. Just got back from the Apple Store here in Downtown Vancouver. Installing my copy now. :)
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Curse you too trekkie604 :p
...still in the office under the gaze of that Snow Leopard :mad:
 
pawcio said:
Ya that would make sense. If there is nothing wrong than it doesnt show anything :cool:
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My friend's white Macbook battery goes off without the power cord plugged in, so when he tasks me to install Snow Leopard for him, I know something's going to show up!
 
Ian.G said:
Pah, Walked like a zombie to the retail store and got my disk.

my 2008 Black Macbook with 500GB disk and 4GB ram won't upgrade. :(

Some time ago I replaced the 160GB disk with a new 500GB disk. I used super duper to move the internal disk onto the bigger drive whilst it was in a caddy and then ploped it into the machine - hey presto.

Snow Leopard won't let me pick the internal drive to install as its says its using the apple partition scheme instead of GUID scheme for some reason.

So my only option is to super duper onto another disk which i'd need to buy (my time machine is on a win 2300 server share - don't think you can restore from network locations on installation ?) and then reformat the internal disk making sure it has the GUID-style table and then super duper back from the external disk.

That kinda sucks and I don't have the time to deal with this kind of stuff at the moment.

It didn't 'just work' LOL my first complaint in 2 years after starting using Apple kit so not too bad I guess.

Anyone know a non-destructive way of switching partition schemes ? iPartition can do it but only on the non booted disk :(
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I ran into a similar problem about a month ago. I cloned my old disk to a new 500 and then installed it. My goal was Bootcamp which, as it turns out, only runs on GUID! (APM is used by default on external drives because older Macs can see it it.) So I had to reclone, change the partition type and... yeah, you get the idea. Fortunately, it was only time for me since I have hard drives all over the place.

If you have iPartition and it'll a non destructive partition change, you could in theory boot your machine in target disk mode and do the change from another machine. You said you walked down to the Apple Store, so they'll probably help you out if you need to use another machine temporarily. The people working at the one I frequent are generally cool like that. However, I dunno that I would ever trust doing a partition change where I have live data.

Get another drive. Clone to that. Do a fresh install of SL. Restore your data. Use the spare drive for Time Machine. :p
 
Install went fine. First time capsule backup under SL took a while - 9G+ to backup. Things are a bit snappier but no huge differences in speed.

Minor things to do:

* I had to re-add my printer to get it to work Epson TX800 FW - fixed
* I had to reinstall remote desktop connection so I could log into work PC (kept saying problem, notify Microsoft etc) - fixed
* weather widget doesn't allow second copy with a different city to be running, doesn't load second cities details - not fixed
 
Anyone have an issue with Firefox 3.5.2 and web fonts? See the following pic, notice the weird italic text for the menus? Here it is:

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This also shows up on other pages as well, it's almost as though one of the websafe fonts is missing from my system, all though the menu looks fine in Safari 4.
 
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