Snow leopard..... I wish I hadn't

[Dybbuk]

i'm not having problems, therefore anyone who claims to be having problems is a dumb liar and an m$ loving idiot

 

[Dybbuk]

I was excited about Snow Leopard and bought it on day one. I convinced some peers here at home as well. It was lackluster at first and after a few days I was having to deal with their bug reports.

After using it myself I found it to be too buggy. I forced myself to live with for a month and now I'm happily back on 10.5.8. This is after several attempts and variations of clean installations as well. I just gave up and called it buggy. I spent plenty of time trying to fix Snow Leopard now the game is in Apple's court. It is what it is.

They really should have sat on it for longer because Leopard was easier out the gate than this. Like I said before I was deploying it by this point. It simplified my imaging process as well since it supported both PowerPC and Intel.

eidorian posts are the best posts <3

 

[macrem]

Of course these problems are popping up at Mac sites. It's where Mac users turn to when they have problems. LTDs pathetic innuendo is outright stupid. If Mac-related bugs and problems weren't reported at Mac sites, where would we expect to see them?

I'm having issues with SL as well. It's buggier than it should be, and the system crashes on me far too often. Some problems are known to be related to certain models and configurations (widely known problems with third party HDD and MBP for instance), so that not everyone is feeling the pain should come as no surprise. It seems fairly evident from all the reports that SL is not as stable as it should be.

Which hardware, specifically, is giving you problems?

 

[macrem]

eidorian posts are the best posts <3

People come here for help, but what they get from Eidorian is non-stop criticisms, not solutions. How is that helpful? Windows is bloated doucheware but you won't find me wasting my time on a Windows forum dissing it. Who has time for that?

 

[Cybbe]

Which hardware, specifically, is giving you problems?

I have a MBP13", and with an upgraded HDD (third-party, but that shouldn't matter for a modern OS and a DIY part). A look around various forums on the web confirm that there are issues*. For instance, Disk utility now tells me I have to repair my startup disk using the install DVD. That's the second time in about two months time. In the last 5 years, I have never had to use the Repair disk function before.

*Apple even released a fix for it, but it seems it only partly addressed the problems.

 

[elberggreno]

I don't get all the people trying to tell us there's nothing wrong with SL just because they don't have any problems, there's obviously alot of us here that's been running just fine with leopard and now don't.

I find it really hard to believe as one stated they haven't had safari crash ONCE in 5 (!) years. What are you doing in Safari really? Having the same webpage open 24h for five years?

I guess SL would work for me too if I surfed one page in safari, used textedit and Iphoto. But the reality is I paid good money to be able to stress my system, multitasking with demanding software.

And don't tell a mac user since 10 years that he's the one doing something wrong - if a new OS breaks stuff that's been working for years is that MY fault?

My MBP has been **** since a clean install of SL, stalling, beachballing, crashing, affecting I/O. Now I'm really longing for 10.6.2 - hopefully that'll solve most of my problems...

 

[Dybbuk]

People come here for help, but what they get from Eidorian is non-stop criticisms, not solutions. How is that helpful? Windows is bloated doucheware but you won't find me wasting my time on a Windows forum dissing it. Who has time for that?

What would you like her to do, exactly? Fix OS X?

also "bloated doucheware" is a good way to make sure nobody takes your opinion seriously

 

[jdsolo]

I can't keep a background picture for more than 5 seconds!! It keeps changing back to the default blue background. It's not even set to "change background every so often"!!

*EDIT*

Found it. Had to uninstall EarthDesk

 

[doug in albq]

If the 10.6.2 update is not a glorious fix of the entire
Snow Leopard OS, and it is not here in less than one week people will start to say, "Snow Leopard is Apple's Vista."

it is really looking that way.

To add to the analogy, I spent the weekend upgrading from 10.6.1 to 10.5.8 and my computer and it's user are much happier.

 

[wrldwzrd89]

Hmm... these bug reports are most perplexing to me. I have no problems with Snow Leopard, other than a few minor Spaces bugs that drive me bonkers when I encounter them (Grr default spaces keyboard shortcuts clashing with Terminal shortcuts).

 

[HLdan]

People come here for help.....

Ha ha, that's a good one. People come here to:

Complain, bitch, whine, moan, tell Apple to go to hell, throw off their frustration on us and make their problem, our problem.

Rarely do I read posts like, "Hey, my system is not responding, what did I do wrong, help me out"?

Instead we get posts like, "SNOW LEOPARD SCREWED MY SYSTEM, SNOW LEOPARD JACKED UP MY PRINTER, SNOW LEOPARD SUCKS, MY MAC WORKED GREAT UNTIL I INSTALLED SNOW LEOPARD".

Very few posters with problems post here for help, they generally use MR for a therapy session until other posters get sick and tired of them and begin to bash them until they go away.

 

[Dybbuk]

how dare someone complain about a product they paid for not performing as it should. how dare those ungrateful peasants

Rarely do I read posts like, "Hey, my system is not responding, what did I do wrong, help me out"?

it is always the user's fault. os x has no faults

seriously is their a forum for mac users that isn't full of horrible fanboys? i'd probably have better luck in a hackintosh community.

people like you are the reason that the technology community often despises Mac users.

 

[doug in albq]

the difference this time is that SL actually does suck!

 

[HyperX13]

SL is a hit or miss. I have two older Imacs, where SL is causing spinning beach balls all the time. My new Mac Book Pro, My wife's first gen Mac Pro, my 3rd gen Mac Pro are all doing very well, no spinning beach balls and no hangups.

I am in the camp that thinks SL was released too early. Probably just so that Apple does it before Windows 7. I am also running Windows 7 on a HP workstation. So far I am impressed, but not enough to switch back to Windows as my primary machine. The fact that you still need to defrag and have a big registry is a big negative for me.

 

[natteaap]

Ha ha, that's a good one. People come here to:

Complain, bitch, whine, moan, tell Apple to go to hell, throw off their frustration on us and make their problem, our problem.

Rarely do I read posts like, "Hey, my system is not responding, what did I do wrong, help me out"?

Instead we get posts like, "SNOW LEOPARD SCREWED MY SYSTEM, SNOW LEOPARD JACKED UP MY PRINTER, SNOW LEOPARD SUCKS, MY MAC WORKED GREAT UNTIL I INSTALLED SNOW LEOPARD".

Very few posters with problems post here for help, they generally use MR for a therapy session until other posters get sick and tired of them and begin to bash them until they go away.

Well, I'm asking for help.
I'm not ranting, but as it so happens SL did not do the trick for me.
CS4 is booting in 18 minutes. I timed it. Everything I do gives me the beachball, even selecting something. (I did a fresh download from the site and it still gives me 18 minutes of quality time with myself)
Logic Pro crashes regularely on the same tasks.
Apps are not working that should.
Opening a simple game (no 3D stuff, simple things like zuma) with another app open, crashes the system and I need to reboot.
Printer does not work.

10.6.2 did not fix this. (it did fix safari though)

So now the only option is to make a backup of all my important files ('cause i read that using timemachine will not fix the problem, anyway, time machine isn't even working) and roll back to 10.5

This is not a rant, but just a simple list of the issues I experience, maybe someone with a better knowledge of mac can point me to a solution. Is it RAM memory related? I personally think it is, but I just know the basics of mac.

So if someone has some good advice. I'd be thankfull.

cheers