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Mac OS X Snow Leopard Officially Launched Today

dL. said:
Is it just me or is MSN Messenger not working properly again? When I open a conversation I start typing and nothing shows up. I press on the message box many times and try typing, I don't see the cursor nor anything that I typed.

dL
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Msn messenger works fine for me. aMsn didn't work, I had to install the latest beta
 
jjs1138 said:
After install, all of my Mail messages have become invisible in the list view. I've tried a restart and that hasn't helped. Has there been any other reports of this issue?
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I had an issue with mail, it wasn't the same as yours though. It basically involved mails that were sent to me in the past suddenly re appearing as new e mails, but from a different sender. Rebooting didn't work, neither did running disk utility.

The solution was to remove the e mail account from mail and then set it up again, everything since has worked fine

Hope that helps
 
Im getting error saying, “SAMSUNG500G” can’t be used because it doesn’t use the GUID Partition Table scheme.

Use Disk Utility to change the partition schedme. Select the disk, choose the Partition tab, select the volume scheme and then click options.

what do i do?
 
SL is up and running, but i'm having trouble with SLEEP. When i close the lid on my MB, it'll act like it's going to sleep, but then jumps right back out, and keeps going thru that loop... I have no solutions for it so far... sucks. I never had this issue with Leopard, and I haven't installed any new apps since upgrading to SL
 
JFreak said:
You mean take an axe next time I'm going to visit and then *bam* -- there's your excuse :D
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Exactly !
Now of course, it all depends on how discrete your methods need to be, An Axe is a very affective method, but certainly not very discrete.
 
old bootcamp

hey guys
anyone who upgraded to new SL 10.6 what happens to your old bootcamp xp or vista partition is it still accessible or do you have to do another xp install
thank you all
 
Dude, that's good enough reason alone to purchase SL. If it is indeed "snappier" that's a big bonus too. 80% leaning towards getting it today.

saving107 said:
I've now installed Snow Leopard on both of my machines and I like it.

I did not do an erase and install, I just upgraded and I got back 22 gb of space back on my 7,1 iMac and 13 gb of space back on my 5,1 MacBook. Apple said on their website that I would get back 7GB but I got more back. good.
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lococo72 said:
hey guys
anyone who upgraded to new SL 10.6 what happens to your old bootcamp xp or vista partition is it still accessible or do you have to do another xp install
thank you all
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Your other partitions should be untouched, so they will still work
 
Yikes...

Up until a minute ago I was eating my heart out thinking about everyone who's already got Snow Leop. (Mine won't arrive til Monday...)

But after reading the incompatible software list, I realize I've got to tread carefully. I haven't used any of the Parallels VMs on my MBP in a while, but I better make sure there's nothing I'll need...

Hmm.. I have EyeTV on a media mini -- not sure what version. I hadn't been planning on upgrading that but then I saw Wake On Demand -- It would be awesome if I could let that guy go to sleep when not in use. No hurry on that, though.

Anyway, everyone ought to take a look at that list before upgrading.

Enjoy!
 
Scottsdale said:
The way I understand the discrepancy between how many GBs of space recovered is the reporters aren't factoring in that Snow Leopard changes the way the size of disks are reported.

So when someone states they recovered 24 GBs and the next person reports 17 GB recovered they're wrong. The larger the drive, the more people are going to think they're recovering. People need to factor in now the size of their drive. Before, a 250 GB drive had only around 230 GBs reporting as it was reporting true space by bytes. Now, Snow Leopard will report the drive as an actual 250 GBs as it's actually calculating differently!

So people should all recover around the exact same 7 GBs of space. The rest of the "gained space" isn't truly gained but rather just a factor of the disk reporting difference in Snow Leopard. Even the supposed "tech expert" journalists who reported the gained space couldn't figure out that they're not really gaining 24 GBs but around 7 GBs and the rest is due to how Snow Leopard calculates a GB!

Wouldn't we all think the "expert" journalist to explain/understand this better?
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It still seems slightly confusing.

Under Leopard, I had 78GB free of a 250GB drive.

Under SL, I have 92GB free.

So haven't I gained 14GB?
 
I thought my copy of SL would not be delivered today since deliveries hardly happen in the late afternoon. To my surprise the delivery guy just rang the doorbell at 5:30 PM, which is the latest I have ever got anything delivered. I'm not complaining :).
 
The only issue I've found with this is that the animations (such as the exposé and dock minimize animations) are quite choppy, just like they were when 10.5 shipped.

Hopefully we'll see a graphics update in the coming weeks to address this problem, other than that this is a fantastic operating system. It's incredibly fast on my 2.16GHz, 2GB RAM, 9400M MacBook Pro. The new color profile/gamma change has been a very welcome change, everything looks even better than before.
 
Quicktime!!!

Everything seems solid so far. Easy install. Took about 45 minutes. iWow does not work so back to crappy iTunes sound:(. Quicktime kinda sucks though. The controller just sits in the center of the video. I just don't like the way it covers it. It's way too much like divx player. You don't have alot of the same easy trim controls as QT7. Preview for video in finder is nice and you can scale it pretty big. No more massive options for export if you had QT pro. It seems you have to go through Final Cut Pro:mad:. No option for QT7 install or copy and paste in QT. Just some things that kind of anoy me as far as QT.
 
"Service Battery"?

Wow. That battery extra tells me to "Service Battery" with a warning symbol next to it. This message isn't even in that Apple article listed in the original post. I guess I better get my MacBook Pro to the Apple store now! :eek:

As far as incompatible software, add "iStat Menus" (which crashes all the menubar icons) and "ooVoo" video conferencing software (which uses a deprecated Java call no longer supported in 10.6).

-Aaron-
 
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