Flip For Mac needs to be updated to the current BETA in order to work. I just had issues today with trying to stream some talk radio.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/28842&page=9
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Mac OS X Snow Leopard Officially Launched Today
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Flip For Mac needs to be updated to the current BETA in order to work. I just had issues today with trying to stream some talk radio.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/28842&page=9
Hmmm . . . Quicktime has been playing WMVs fine so far. I just assumed it was Flip4Mac doing its job.
I just installed SL on my MacMini. No Problems, nothing at all. At least for now.
I was very surprised: Photoshop CS1 (v8) works! Wacom driver works! Scanner works! Beautiful!!!
And the best of all (maybe this already was in Leopard but I never noticed):
Snow Leopard allows "Swiss German" as the main language!
Too bad, the applications do not bundle this language as default. I would like to see the finder-menu: "Finder, Ablag, Bearbeitä, Darstellig, Ganggo, Feischter, Hülf"
I was very surprised: Photoshop CS1 (v8) works! Wacom driver works! Scanner works! Beautiful!!!
And the best of all (maybe this already was in Leopard but I never noticed):
Snow Leopard allows "Swiss German" as the main language!
Too bad, the applications do not bundle this language as default. I would like to see the finder-menu: "Finder, Ablag, Bearbeitä, Darstellig, Ganggo, Feischter, Hülf" 
A neat little trick, just because it looks kinda cool.
Pick your favourite wallpaper, like say, that nice Snow Leopard one that comes with the OS, make sure there are no Windows open, and simply activate Expoosé. Looks rather nice. Apple really got the Exposé shaded screen right.
Pick your favourite wallpaper, like say, that nice Snow Leopard one that comes with the OS, make sure there are no Windows open, and simply activate Expoosé. Looks rather nice. Apple really got the Exposé shaded screen right.
Ordered SL with the UTD program and I like it. Nothing major, just subtle changes which make it better.
I got my copy of SL today, from the up to date program, and I guess if you paid the 9.99 upgrade you don't get the normal SL packaging + apple stickers? I just got it in a little yellow envelope with the cd in a paper sleeve and a small booklet. No stickers ):
We'll likely find stickers included with 10.7, which will be a more substantial upgrade.
I bought a Mac Mini on the online Apple store on August 28, 2009, the day of Snow Leopard release. Their Mac Mini specs page indicated that it included Snow Leopard when I ordered it. But they shipped it with Mac OS 10.5.6 (not even the latest 10.5) and when I called Apple, they said I should pay the $9.95 update fee. I told them that based on their webpage stating Snow Leopard is included in the Mac Mini when I ordered it, they should honor their advertisement and send it to me for free. So now they are sending it to me for free. But it was pretty annoying that they updated their webpages without updating their warehouse stocks with the Snow Leopard, and that I had to spend 35 minutes on the phone convincing them that their webpage featured Snow Leopard with the Mac Mini. Their attitude was that it was my fault for ordering too soon. The Apple rep says that will take the next week or so to update all the hardware in their warehouses to include Snow Leopard, so I would wait a couple weeks before ordering any hardware on the Apple store just to be sure. I sent Steve Jobs an email about the above atypical Apple experience but have yet to hear from him.
--Peter
--Peter
Bought two new macs and ordered the update SL for 9.95, expected to see them today....naw they shipped via Snail mail with expected delivery of Sept 1.
Apple that ain't right........
Consider yourself blessed because now you officially have license to use Leopard AND Snow Leopard. You'll never know when you're going to need some software that is only supported on Leopard -- now you have it!
A little annoyance with Roxio's Toast Titanium... I'm used to creating a folder in Finder, and filling it up to 4.38GB (Finder's total) so that I can simply drop it into Toast and burn it. However, now that Finder reports disk usage differently, 4.38GB in Finder is about 4.11GB in Toast. You have to fill the folder to 4.7GB in Finder to use up all the space.
Not a big problem, but something Roxio need to update. I'll bug it with them.
(However, this does now match with the disc's stated capacity of 4.7GB)
Not a big problem, but something Roxio need to update. I'll bug it with them.
(However, this does now match with the disc's stated capacity of 4.7GB
)
i got my copy of SL the first day, been using it since...not noticing any troubles. I really dont use many 3rd person apps so thats probably why im not seeing any issues. Seems faster though, and more smooth.
I did an update and I was running great until I install rosetta (for one of my porgrams), once I did that it slowed down.
What's your hardware?
I've experienced nothing but speed increases across the board. I did a clean install as well.
I did the upgrade and have had absolutely no problems. Speed improvements everywhere, from application launching to logging in and shutting down. The only thing that I haven't seen a huge improvement in is booting up, but it's still nothing compared to a Windows machine (and even my Windows 7 partition on my MBP). The biggest improvement, which I touched on in another topic, is battery life. In Leopard I used to get about 2 1/2 hours on a charge while on the net, if this keeps up then I'll be getting around 4 hours out of it under Snow Leopard (this is on the early 2009 15" MBP, the very last model with the removable battery). Very pleased.
My upgrade process was painful. I'm not sure whether it's because SL installer did something or did I really have some sort of disk problem on my boot disk that contained a relatively fresh Leopard isntalled less than 2 months ago.
Anyway, the upgrade failed and I had to format the system partition to get SL installed. After migrating old user data from Time Machine backup, lots of things were good but some things are still bad. I have to for example find out why my display profiles show multiple entries (three Adobe RGB's for example) and why on earth this 2007 SR MBP won't boot into 64 bit.
Oh, well...
Anyway, the upgrade failed and I had to format the system partition to get SL installed. After migrating old user data from Time Machine backup, lots of things were good but some things are still bad. I have to for example find out why my display profiles show multiple entries (three Adobe RGB's for example) and why on earth this 2007 SR MBP won't boot into 64 bit.
Oh, well...
I bought my Mini this spring (Macmini3,1), this is the new model after the long wait during the "mac mini at end of life"-fear. For those having the same model, I provide a short list of findings of the first evening of using SL. For the others, some more infos are provided.
I installed SL over my existing Leopard system with all private data backed up but left as is. As known from former system installations, the private data remained untouched and was perfectly safe. But you never know, I will keep my backup for some more days.
Things I noticed:
- Installation takes about 35 Minutes (I installed everything)
- long spinning wheel at first and second start of Finder
- WakeOnWLan seems to work.
- Does not boot with 64kernel (as expected, and not need for it).
- There is a Firmware-Update for the Mini right at the start. Turn off and back on your screen if it keeps being black after the indicated 40 seconds.
In the other thread, there was this OpenCL-benchmark-thingy. I tried it just because I wanted to know if my graphics card is capable of the things apple promised. It looks good:
Number of OpenCL devices found: 2
OpenCL Device # 0 = GeForce 9400
Device 0 is an: GPU with max. 1100 MHz and 16 units/cores
Now computing - please be patient....
time used: 3.505 seconds
OpenCL Device # 1 = Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P7350 @ 2.00GHz
Device 1 is an: CPU with max. 2000 MHz and 2 units/cores
Now computing - please be patient....
time used: 18.194 seconds
Now checking if results are valid - please be patient....
Validate test passed - GPU results=CPU results
Other things of SL which I noticed:
- Font-AntiAliasing can be set to non-LCD-style which is the smoothing formerely refered to as the CRT-style. My concern was that unchecking the checkbox would turn off antialiasing completely.
- Zoom per scrollwheel changes the default behaviour but can easily be reset.
- Mail (once again) sets the "new-mail"-sound per default but can easily be reset. Hope my preferences will stick in the future.
- The ColorSync profile for my screen had changed, but can easily be set back.
- XCode 3.2 uses antialiased font as default. Can easily be changed back to monaco 10 (for those who like it more).
- Screen capture in QuickTime X can only record fullscreen.
- The clock in the menubar now shows the date with an ugly abbreviation-dot.
- SoftwareUpdate is a little nicer.
- You can get spotlight to search in the current folder by setting it in the finder preferences.
- Console Application does not properly reload files. But at least they are displayed correctly when they are just plain text.
- Text Edit now has a useful feature to remove ligatures in texts.
- Preview offers soft proofing, we'll see how it performs.
- The sidebar in the finder windows finally don't show things you did not explicitely want to!
- The quicklook-index still does not work in fullscreen mode. I muss that feature from Tiger so very much!
- Dragging multiple selected items in list view now also works when clicking the mouse pointer on an empty space of one line!
- Opening Applications and Utilitites folder still takes some seconds to load.
- The view of a window still spreads to every newly opened window and will not be stored for one particular window.
- When in QuickLook mode, you can double click the document and it opens. Was that before in Leopard?
- The processor use always looks very! balanced, the two cores are used equally. This is impressive.
- Safari finally smoothes the favicons correctly.
- Safari did not crashed once yet. Flash seems to work, but the processor load is pretty high.
- Printer driver works perfectly.
- The Services-Menu now only shows Services which are available. Although, I will continue to forget that this menu exists and therefore not use it anyway.
- Apache (Web) did not worked at first. The php5_module had to match the apache installation which was overwritten somehow by the SL installation.
- Mysql nowhere on the system??? Downloaded the x86_64 package. Installation without problems. But the data has gone. Well that's why we have backups, don't we?
- My latex installation works.
So far so good.
Overall, as expected, SL is almost completely the same as Leopard. As I do not use much of third-party apps, I have no problems at all. Some small things changed, but I think, the real benefit will come with time.
I installed SL over my existing Leopard system with all private data backed up but left as is. As known from former system installations, the private data remained untouched and was perfectly safe. But you never know, I will keep my backup for some more days.
Things I noticed:
- Installation takes about 35 Minutes (I installed everything)
- long spinning wheel at first and second start of Finder
- WakeOnWLan seems to work.
- Does not boot with 64kernel (as expected, and not need for it).
- There is a Firmware-Update for the Mini right at the start. Turn off and back on your screen if it keeps being black after the indicated 40 seconds.
In the other thread, there was this OpenCL-benchmark-thingy. I tried it just because I wanted to know if my graphics card is capable of the things apple promised. It looks good:
Number of OpenCL devices found: 2
OpenCL Device # 0 = GeForce 9400
Device 0 is an: GPU with max. 1100 MHz and 16 units/cores
Now computing - please be patient....
time used: 3.505 seconds
OpenCL Device # 1 = Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P7350 @ 2.00GHz
Device 1 is an: CPU with max. 2000 MHz and 2 units/cores
Now computing - please be patient....
time used: 18.194 seconds
Now checking if results are valid - please be patient....
Validate test passed - GPU results=CPU results Other things of SL which I noticed:
- Font-AntiAliasing can be set to non-LCD-style which is the smoothing formerely refered to as the CRT-style. My concern was that unchecking the checkbox would turn off antialiasing completely.
- Zoom per scrollwheel changes the default behaviour but can easily be reset.
- Mail (once again) sets the "new-mail"-sound per default but can easily be reset. Hope my preferences will stick in the future.
- The ColorSync profile for my screen had changed, but can easily be set back.
- XCode 3.2 uses antialiased font as default. Can easily be changed back to monaco 10 (for those who like it more).
- Screen capture in QuickTime X can only record fullscreen.
- The clock in the menubar now shows the date with an ugly abbreviation-dot.
- SoftwareUpdate is a little nicer.
- You can get spotlight to search in the current folder by setting it in the finder preferences.
- Console Application does not properly reload files. But at least they are displayed correctly when they are just plain text.
- Text Edit now has a useful feature to remove ligatures in texts.
- Preview offers soft proofing, we'll see how it performs.
- The sidebar in the finder windows finally don't show things you did not explicitely want to!
- The quicklook-index still does not work in fullscreen mode. I muss that feature from Tiger so very much!
- Dragging multiple selected items in list view now also works when clicking the mouse pointer on an empty space of one line!
- Opening Applications and Utilitites folder still takes some seconds to load.
- The view of a window still spreads to every newly opened window and will not be stored for one particular window.
- When in QuickLook mode, you can double click the document and it opens. Was that before in Leopard?
- The processor use always looks very! balanced, the two cores are used equally. This is impressive.
- Safari finally smoothes the favicons correctly.
- Safari did not crashed once yet. Flash seems to work, but the processor load is pretty high.
- Printer driver works perfectly.
- The Services-Menu now only shows Services which are available. Although, I will continue to forget that this menu exists and therefore not use it anyway.
- Apache (Web) did not worked at first. The php5_module had to match the apache installation which was overwritten somehow by the SL installation.
- Mysql nowhere on the system??? Downloaded the x86_64 package. Installation without problems. But the data has gone. Well that's why we have backups, don't we?
- My latex installation works.
So far so good.
Overall, as expected, SL is almost completely the same as Leopard. As I do not use much of third-party apps, I have no problems at all. Some small things changed, but I think, the real benefit will come with time.
Are you guys lucky or have I just run out of luck?
I'm still waiting for my Snow Leopard copy to arrive. Actually, it's my own fault. I was going to pre-order it from the online Apple Store (NL), but I was like "Oh, my local APR store will probably have loads of them in stock." Well, boy I was wrong. Friday right after opening time I walked into the store filled with an adrenaline rush, I was going to get 10.6! Guess again, they hadn't received any copies. Nothing, zero, nada!
So after school, I called another reasonable local APR. Same story, no stock at all. I called some (three to be exact) APR in the bigger cities here in the northern region of The Netherlands. Although they had received some stock, they opened up at midnight and had sold out through their (limited) stock already.
So, I ordered a copy on friday, which shipped yesterday and has an eta of friday.
Sucks to have to wait for a new OS. I've purchased a new HDD (Hitachi 5k500.b 500GB for those interested) especially for a clean install of Snow Leopard. In my impatience I ended up installing Leopard and performing a time machine backup. (And I guess I'll just upgrade install SL).
Apple life sucks outside of the US.
I'm still waiting for my Snow Leopard copy to arrive. Actually, it's my own fault. I was going to pre-order it from the online Apple Store (NL), but I was like "Oh, my local APR store will probably have loads of them in stock." Well, boy I was wrong. Friday right after opening time I walked into the store filled with an adrenaline rush, I was going to get 10.6! Guess again, they hadn't received any copies. Nothing, zero, nada!
So after school, I called another reasonable local APR. Same story, no stock at all. I called some (three to be exact) APR in the bigger cities here in the northern region of The Netherlands. Although they had received some stock, they opened up at midnight and had sold out through their (limited) stock already.
So, I ordered a copy on friday, which shipped yesterday and has an eta of friday.
Sucks to have to wait for a new OS. I've purchased a new HDD (Hitachi 5k500.b 500GB for those interested) especially for a clean install of Snow Leopard. In my impatience I ended up installing Leopard and performing a time machine backup. (And I guess I'll just upgrade install SL).
Apple life sucks outside of the US.
