Returning to Leopard, sadly

[n0otro]

reviving a slightly stale thread...

I installed snow leopard onto my early 2008 MBP that had a copy of leopard on it w/ a moderate amount of hacking done to certain parts of the OS and for the most part it works great, however I have noticed that alot of things are laggy now, and safari crashes alot.

Sometimes when Safari is open with just a single window on a blank page, it will suddenly start eating up >70% of my cpu power for some strange reason.

All of my office 2008 products will periodically give me the spinning beach ball and sometimes crash when I'm trying to save (which has caused me to lose several hours worth of work).

Sometimes when i'm just typing simple text into BBEDIT, I will get the beach ball and be unable to interact with it for up to 2 minutes which is really irritating.

Spotlight also is much slower now, and sometimes it won't even find a document that I *KNOW* is there and instead I have to browse to it through finder

I'm always the type of person who will opt for a fresh OS install rather than an upgrade, especially over a modified version, however I have an incredibly important work project due in 3 weeks and I can't afford the down time of having to reinstall everything I need right away. I was going to wait to install snow leopard until after the project, however my geek OCD got the better of me, and given the fact that apple has been so reassuring that upgrading will be flawless trouble-free, my excitement for the now OS forced me to upgrade over my better judgement.

Bottom line, I should have waited and installed Snow Leopard onto a FRESHLY formatted hard drive, and NOT UPGRADED!

 

[broken-chaos]

Sometimes when Safari is open with just a single window on a blank page, it will suddenly start eating up >70% of my cpu power for some strange reason.

Flash Player?

 

[petermcphee]

I am surprised to read about folks' problems with finder and spotlight. For me, these have been the biggest bonuses to upgrading to SL. I have noticed increased performance from both.

I hope the OP and others are able to get their bugs worked out and eventually enjoy SL as much as I have been.

 

[Acsom]

For me, this has been the buggiest OS since Windows Millenium; I can't keep a wireless network connection for more than 20 minutes, and if it can't keep a solid connection to the rest of the network then it is useless.

As a first time MAC user, I am seriously disappointed. I paid $30 to screw up a perfectly good $2500 laptop.

 

[Ledgem]

Well, I'll just throw in my opinion: I made a backup of my Leopard installation (to be used in case something seriously went wrong during or immediately following the upgrade), and after a week of 10.6 I wanted to go back, but it'd be too much of a hassle at this point.

The new Expose was what really killed it for me; if I had access to the old one, I'd be able to bear with the new bugs. Everyone's experience seems to be somewhat different with Snow Leopard. Shut down is dramatically faster for me, and wireless performance is fantastic. But that's about it; Finder performance is the same (if not slightly more sluggish at times), many applications are slower. Even with the release of 10.6.1, I wouldn't say that the performance has improved. As of now I am the only member of my family to be on Snow Leopard - everyone else is still on Leopard, at my recommendation.

I see there are a few people who poo-poo those of us who are early adopters as if we're crazy for not waiting for further updates. I get excited about new software updates and feel good about writing up detailed bug reports and/or suggestions in order to make the software better, faster. I consider myself skilled enough (or perhaps, my needs are small enough) that I can work around a number of glitches that are encountered, as well. If your needs are very heavy/specialized for your computer, then of course it pays to wait, especially if you don't stand to gain anything from an immediate upgrade.

So then, for better or for worse, I'm stuck here on Snow Leopard, writing up bug reports and glitches as I catch them.