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Not smoothing fonts on 3rd party displays should be fixed as well. Just give us back the option of picking the type of font smoothing. Having to enable it with adding to the defaults through terminal is annoying and an average user wouldn't figure this out.
Anyone else having a problem with iDVD. It repeatedly crashes when making the menus - I've tried reinstalling it from disc which helps - however if I allow software update to download the latest version it crashes again.
Wonder if it may be something to do with the codec downloads I have that allow it and quicktime to use avi files?
Nb I have the upgrade disc for SL rather than the shop-bought copy (the computer is only weeks old) so couldn't do clean install
thanks
(PS Have reported this on apple's forums and sent the many crash logs to apple as well)
Wonder if it may be something to do with the codec downloads I have that allow it and quicktime to use avi files?
Nb I have the upgrade disc for SL rather than the shop-bought copy (the computer is only weeks old) so couldn't do clean install
thanks
(PS Have reported this on apple's forums and sent the many crash logs to apple as well)
For all you non-devs crying that this is a weak update. This is whats called a zero-day patch. Obvious bugs that were missed for various reasons. Its quite common in the Linux world, specially when there is a new distro or KDE update.
I agree, my unibody pro is chugging along. Spinning beach balls everywhere, it also struggles to connect to my iDisc. It won't connect to a number of network printers, even though it tells me the driver is available on software update. Lots of other niggles like mail crashes when I attempt to access preferences. Everything was silky smooth under Leopard, this was a clean install by the way. Not impressed to be honest.
What about color calibration issues I am having... and the external display not being recognized at quite some times?
Also, there is a crash in the Finder during copying large/many files when you continue browsing files... I hope this list is incomplete!
Also, there is a crash in the Finder during copying large/many files when you continue browsing files... I hope this list is incomplete!
Motion 4 becoming unresponsive my a$$ it works very well for me. WTF are they talking about lets do some real changes like fix the internal sound settings in System Preferences when you have optical hooked up and you want to turn the sound down on the internal sound so it's not so loud when you boot up.
But everytime I restart and restart again at a later time it goes back to all the way up on the internal sound setting to blasting loud full maxed out blow your brains out loud.
But everytime I restart and restart again at a later time it goes back to all the way up on the internal sound setting to blasting loud full maxed out blow your brains out loud.
And here everyone was being all whiny and complaining over nothing.
Hahaha are you kidding? Snow Leopard is Leopard II, just like Win7 is Vista II. If you take a minute and stop drinking the Apple kool-aid you'll know this. Win7 is improving as well, just like Snow Leopard. Here's something Mac fanboys don't want to hear (even though it's true): Windows 7 and Snow Leopard have a lot in common.
They have both done the same thing . They have slimmed / removed redundant code, and generally tidied up the code base , possibly to make way for a large future rework
the only difference is that W7 has a new coat ( sorry UI ) but they have reduced the apps eg no mail app in W7
BTW W7 64 bit on a 2009 iMac with 8 gig of ram is blazingly fast ( maybe a tad faster than SL )
Sure you can, absolutely no copies - regardless of it it's a retail or upgrade disc - actually gives an "Erase and Install" option when you run the installer, it's always set to just do an Archive & Install by default. This is how you do it:
- Make sure your system is backed up (something you should do anyway
)- Insert the Snow Leopard disc and then shut down the computer, do not run the installer.
- Boot up your computer and hold down "C" to boot from CD.
- Once the installer has loaded, do not continue it. In the menu bar, select Utilities and open Disk Utility. Select your Macintosh HD, then select the Erase tab. Erase it. Your HDD is now 'clean'.
- Quit Disk Utility, and you will be brought back to the installer. Now you can continue it and let it install. When it's done, you will have a 100% fresh install of Snow Leopard.
This has been confirmed to work on the upgrade discs, it's just been causing a lot of confusion because Apple has totally changed the way the installer works. Hope this helps
There's a thread in the OSX section that deals with this. It fixed my problem with my Canon networked printer (a 5200R over wireless).
Safari Top Sites bug
I find Snow Leopard ok at the moment apart from a problem with Top Sites zooming and waiting for some pages to load causes a blurring issue as show here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nMZr7k-SHc
I find Snow Leopard ok at the moment apart from a problem with Top Sites zooming and waiting for some pages to load causes a blurring issue as show here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nMZr7k-SHc
Hopefully, Apple will address the Front Row issues on the GMA 950 chipset.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2132473
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2132473
Sure you can, absolutely no copies - regardless of it it's a retail or upgrade disc - actually gives an "Erase and Install" option when you run the installer, it's always set to just do an Archive & Install by default. This is how you do it:
- Make sure your system is backed up (something you should do anyway
- Insert the Snow Leopard disc and then shut down the computer, do not run the installer.
- Boot up your computer and hold down "C" to boot from CD.
- Once the installer has loaded, do not continue it. In the menu bar, select Utilities and open Disk Utility. Select your Macintosh HD, then select the Erase tab. Erase it. Your HDD is now 'clean'.
- Quit Disk Utility, and you will be brought back to the installer. Now you can continue it and let it install. When it's done, you will have a 100% fresh install of Snow Leopard.
This has been confirmed to work on the upgrade discs, it's just been causing a lot of confusion because Apple has totally changed the way the installer works. Hope this helps
Really?. Because in previous versions you could choose from the "advanced options" or something like that, the erase and install option. I have done it for Tiger and Leopard and does exactly the same thing you are describing without going to Apps and Disc utility.
BTW W7 64 bit on a 2009 iMac with 8 gig of ram is blazingly fast ( maybe a tad faster than SL )
For now. If it's anything like every other Windows computer I have used running XP, it will be going slower in a few weeks.
downgraded
my goodness, never experienced a systemupdate from apple that gave me more troubles than i had with the previous (10.5.8.) system. For the ten years i am using MacOS this is the first time i wished that i never updated all my macs. so i downgraded all of them but one, again.
Information about what programs, printers, plugins, errors wouldnt work, followed daysss after the sales of the new OS. They never mentioned that things wouldnt work anymore, it would be better they promised. Also the suppliers like HP, Canon and so on, where have they been with their testing and technical support the last months or weeks?? too busy with firing people or so?
Ivan
my goodness, never experienced a systemupdate from apple that gave me more troubles than i had with the previous (10.5.8.) system. For the ten years i am using MacOS this is the first time i wished that i never updated all my macs. so i downgraded all of them but one, again.
Information about what programs, printers, plugins, errors wouldnt work, followed daysss after the sales of the new OS. They never mentioned that things wouldnt work anymore, it would be better they promised. Also the suppliers like HP, Canon and so on, where have they been with their testing and technical support the last months or weeks?? too busy with firing people or so?
Ivan
More fool you for upgrading then without checking out the compatibility of all your applications. It's not as if that's Apple's job. Blame your app developers.
As for me, I couldn't be happier on my early 2008 MBP. All my major apps (Adobe CS 3, Office 2008, VMWare Fusion) work fine and performance is good.
I'm in exactly the same boat - it's so frustrating. I have a 17" MBP running snow and a 13" MB running 10.5. There's no wireless problems whatsoever in Leopard. My 17" MBP loses airport connection at least 7/8 times a day. It's infuriating - really, really getting on my nerves. Hope they fix it soon.
Well I for one am happy with how smoothly my upgrade went on my unibody MB... Yes I've had to do several software updates to ensure SL compatibility (such as the Cisco VPN client), but everything is working fine, including my HP printer and scanning functionality.
My Mac Mini upgraded just as smoothly.
Now if only Vodafone could get their act in gear and release a new Mobile Connect application for their 3g modems...
My Mac Mini upgraded just as smoothly.
Now if only Vodafone could get their act in gear and release a new Mobile Connect application for their 3g modems...
I'm experiencing a strange bug where the system sounds (eg trash-can emptying etc) are set to zero. Took me ages to figure out why I wasn't getting a sound, but when I put it back up it randomly gets set to zero again. Have no idea what causes this either, it's really strange.
My 3 yr old iMac upgraded smoothly as well. Lost scanner functionality on my HP PSC 2510, but then they told me in advance I would, so I have nothing to complain about.
It is FAR more responsive now than it ever was under Tiger or Leopard. Feels like a new computer.
