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Should I get snow leopard?

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trackforlife7

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I'm still using leopard, is there a point of me getting snow leopard? Just to have a faster computer and more memory?
 
Assuming you have an Intel processor, Snow Leopard is a decent update. The OS footprint is smaller since it only includes Intel code.
 
Yes. For the same reasons old-wiz said and that if you do have an Intel based Mac, it will likely be faster as well. I just upgraded a girlfriends Macbook the other week from Leopard to Snow Leopard and she reports back that it is noticeably faster than it was before.
 
At $30 for the upgrade, the question shouldn't be "Why should I upgrade" but "Why should I not upgrade". You'll get a faster, smaller system that's more up-to-date.

Provided you have an Intel Mac, I'd do it, no question. If you don't have an Intel Mac, you can't anyway.
 
I personally wouldn't, there is a boost in performance, but nothing substantial.. better off waiting for Mac OSX Lion. Its going to be available next year summer, you could always pay $30 now, but I'd rather save the $30 and spend it on OSX Lion.. 😛
 
Don't do it. Wait for Lion. I have Leopard on my iMac and everything is cool
On my 2 month old MBPro, Snow Leopard is junk. Buggy, broken apps, etc.
I have this awful issue where all of a sudden, ALL OS X apps, the bundled stuff, and Widgets, System PRefs, etc, will NOT WORK and I have to restart.
That's pathetic.
And it's not only me.
SO if you want to avoid this, AVOID Snow Leopard.
 
I waited until just a week or so ago to finally update my Mac Pro to Snow Leopard. My only issue was with an old LPR print server but a quick reconfiguration fixed it. Other than that everything still "just works."

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wonderbutt said:
Don't do it. Wait for Lion. I have Leopard on my iMac and everything is cool
On my 2 month old MBPro, Snow Leopard is junk. Buggy, broken apps, etc.
I have this awful issue where all of a sudden, ALL OS X apps, the bundled stuff, and Widgets, System PRefs, etc, will NOT WORK and I have to restart.
That's pathetic.
And it's not only me.
SO if you want to avoid this, AVOID Snow Leopard.
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Have you tried reinstalling SL? If not, then obviously the problem isn't too bad (since you haven't done anything about it). Sometimes you just get a bad install or a weird conflict. While you're not the only one, your experience is an extremely small percentile (I'm willing to bet less than 1%). The vast majority of people are having no problems at all.
 
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