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Net Applications: 18% of Mac Users Have Upgraded to Snow Leopard

Too busy with work to upgrade to Snow Leopard. Can't risk something not working properly and losing a day or more of productivity.

Everything I use now runs flawlessly with Leopard, and I can't mess with that right now.

I'm assuming there might be some downtime around Christmas that allows me to consider upgrading. Along with plenty of documentation (via blogs) on how to workaround any problems I run into.
 
Apple: Please buy Adobe...please!

Adobe releases CS4 with bugs that make our transition to it nearly impossible. Because of this we are stuck on CS3. Adobe won't support it any longer, nor will they make it Snow Leopard compatible.

Long story short, much of the publishing industry is forced to stay away from Snow Leopard because Adobe won't fix CS4 and won't make CS3 compatible. WTF?

Apple, just buy them up with some of that stockpile of cash...please. Then at least we'll get updates to make sure our software works with the OS.
 
I think 18% is a very respectable figure; given it hasn't been out for long; and it's not a major "blow your socks off" release.

I imagine it'll rise slowly and steadily; particularly after the next point release.
 
I would have upgraded both my Macs but...

Since Apple dropped PPC support, I can't. I'm not crying about it too much, it just seems like a shame.

Dual 1.8GHZ G5 with 2TB of disk, and 7.5GB of RAM and it meets all my needs, Though encoding video takes an eternity, I never feel like it's slow otherwise.

Oh well, I've been holding off upgrading the computer itself to see what this tablet was going to be.
 
I hate to ask this but does anyone regret upgrading to Snow Leopard? I feel like I'm out $29 on an operating system I can't use, yet.
 
Rodimus Prime said:
Ah you are part of the group that apple screwed over. I saw with in a year it will be near impossible to find new software for your computer thanks to apple intentionally forcing it to be obsolete. Sucks that you can not even get 5 years of use out of your computer.
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Actually it was 6 years this summer. I bought the machine when they were first released, so I got a lot out of the machine. And still will ( hopefully ) before I need to upgrade.

But, yes, I'd be very upset if I bought the last G5 lineup before the Intel machines came into play. What did those people get? 18 months before their machines were on a downward spiral?
 
whooleytoo said:
I think 18% is a very respectable figure; given it hasn't been out for long; and it's not a major "blow your socks off" release.

I imagine it'll rise slowly and steadily; particularly after the next point release.
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It's us PowerPC sers that will "skew" this number a little (I'm one of them, so I should know, on one of my machines, anyway). But I was still hoping for more like 25% share at this point. When the number creaks over 50% you'll start to see vendors targeting SL, and perhaps the adoption of some of its features, like GCD and OpenCL.

That's when things really get interesting.
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I upgraded to SL as soon as it was released. No major issues with it so far. Minor issues got fixed with a reboot. I also got the full CS4 Suite though I'm not advanced enough to recognize any issues associated with it :p
 
I have 4 i/macbooks , 3 of them are PPC and one coreduo , I am not upgrading to snow till the drivers for my printers are released .
 
I upgraded last week, took a couple of days out and did a nice clean install. I did my parents iMac and MacBook the week before.

The MacBook work great, just updated the OS no problems at all. The iMac (both same generation) didn't fair so well, and the system preferences were a mess, so I ended up doing a clean install. All 3 machines are working fine now, no problems at all.

I'm a designer so I use CS3 every day and it works perfectly on Snow Leopard. I tried CS4 (trial version) on Leopard and it crashed all the time, so I reinstalled on snow leopard, but still found it to be really buggy, I'll wait for CS5! I'm happy with Snow Leopard and CS3, I'm choosy about what I install which I think helps to keep a healthy system.

The problem with most reviews is that people tend to complain if there is a problem, but when things work without a problem, they tend to just get on with it, and don't bother writing positive comments.
 
I must be the exception case. I upgraded to SL the day it came out and haven't had a single negative issue. I don't see the massive speed increases advertised, but I like the (admittedly) minor UI tweaks.

I expect the speed increases to occur when developers adopt OpenCL.
 
This is a remarkably low percentage, even after considering the PowerPC models that couldn't upgrade, leading to the only logical conclusion: Somewhere in the world, a million PowerPC Macs have congregated in a landfill using an old Dish satellite to procure internet service... >.>
 
Rodimus Prime said:
Ah you are part of the group that apple screwed over. I saw with in a year it will be near impossible to find new software for your computer thanks to apple intentionally forcing it to be obsolete. Sucks that you can not even get 5 years of use out of your computer.
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instaxgirl said:
I've been thinking about that myself. I only upgraded to Leopard because more and more software that I wanted to run (and that my computer is capable of running) was having new versions released for Leopard only which was fair enough, so I upgraded. The lack of choice this time is annoying.
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i'm sorry but i'm laughing at bit at both of you. 3 years is actually a very good lifespan for a computer or even software. in fact, it's rather typical given the way component prices are falling. As is the notion that software companies will focus on current specs and not waste time with something that is 2-3 years old. it's not like that old computer or old software just stops working when something new comes out. and if you really really need the newer software you get it and the computer to run it

and for what I paid for my g4 I can easily get 3 times the computer when this thing crashes. by the time that happens it might be more like 5 times. Meanwhile it is running Leopard just fine and dandy for me.
 
neverfade said:
Actually it was 6 years this summer. I bought the machine when they were first released, so I got a lot out of the machine. And still will ( hopefully ) before I need to upgrade.

But, yes, I'd be very upset if I bought the last G5 lineup before the Intel machines came into play. What did those people get? 18 months before their machines were on a downward spiral?
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Even sadder.... My desktop PC is currently 5.5 years old. The processing power of it I know is less than your G5 and yet it can and will run windows 7 64 bit with out any trouble at all. Something just sad about that fack

charlituna said:
i'm sorry but i'm laughing at bit at both of you. 3 years is actually a very good lifespan for a computer or even software. in fact, it's rather typical given the way component prices are falling. As is the notion that software companies will focus on current specs and not waste time with something that is 2-3 years old. it's not like that old computer or old software just stops working when something new comes out. and if you really really need the newer software you get it and the computer to run it

and for what I paid for my g4 I can easily get 3 times the computer when this thing crashes. by the time that happens it might be more like 5 times. Meanwhile it is running Leopard just fine and dandy for me.
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Umm I might like to point out a MASSIVE flaw in your argument. 3 years for a low end computers but top of the line computers pulling 5+ years of usable life out of them is another matter because it takes 4 of those years for the low end computers to even catch up.

It is not about cost comparing at the time but usable life. Apple did a massive slap in the face to the people who bought power Mac G5. When those computers were bought one should easily expect to get 5 years out of it.

You can bash my 5+ year PC all you want but it still handling modern software with out much of even flinching. I just need to add more ram to it and it will be good to go for a few more years.
 
LethalWolfe said:
Rodimus Prime said:
Ah you are part of the group that apple screwed over. I saw with in a year it will be near impossible to find new software for your computer thanks to apple intentionally forcing it to be obsolete. Sucks that you can not even get 5 years of use out of your computer.
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How long you can use your computer depends on what your needs are. I have a 7yr old G4 running Leopard that I use as my 'daily driver' (Word, internet, etc.,). I also have an intel machine that I use for work and heavy lifting but the G4 keeps up surprisingly well. Lethal
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In all honestly, a dual and quad-core G5 is for heavy lifting... and that is exactly what apple advertised them for... they weren't touting those monsters for Word, internet, etc... It's amusing that many people here (not necessarily you, but mostly newbies) defend apple for leaving customers in the dust but i dont think they realize that people paid a lot of cash for systems they had no idea would be forcibly obsolete within just a couple years. Even further, these very customers are (or were) apple's best and most faithful; they bought their most expensive and profitable machines and especially g5 purchasers, were probably long time customers. I'm not saying apple can make everyone happy, but they left a very sour taste in a lot of people's mouths. :rolleyes:
 
Eidorian said:
I hate to ask this but does anyone regret upgrading to Snow Leopard? I feel like I'm out $29 on an operating system I can't use, yet.
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I regret it. Illustrator CS3 won't run on Snow Leopard...crashes every few minutes. Adobe won't support CS3 any longer and I can't afford to upgrade to CS4, so I'm going to have to revert back to Leopard soon.
 
I'm waiting for another couple of point releases. It reminds me too much of Vista's early days just now.
 
theheadguy said:
In all honestly, a dual and quad-core G5 is for heavy lifting... Even further, these very customers are (or were) apple's best and most faithful; they bought their most expensive and profitable machines and especially g5 purchasers, were probably long time customers.
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But, like you said, these machines were designed for heavy lifting, and were well-built, so many of them continue to run fine today. There are people in this thread who say they have G5, even G4 machines which are still sufficient for their computing needs.

Yes, "current" technology and software marches on, but if the machine still does what you need it to do, then there's no need to get caught up in having the latest and greatest.

I had a PowerBook G4 running as my daily machine for 5 years. I'm sure it could have gone to 6 or 7 years, except that it suffered a hard drive failure, and I was beginning to feel it getting sluggish at a few critical things, so I decided to get a MacBook Pro.
 
Perhaps there are quite a few of us in the category where there is no absolute need to upgrade at the present time. I am perfectly content with Leopard and really don't want to spend the time and effort however small that may be to upgrade. Maybe next year...
 
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