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Well, despite a fair bit of moaning in this thread, since upgrading to Snow Leopard on August 29th, my 2.4GHz iMac has been running faster than it did on Leopard and everything I need, application wise, works fine and as it did before.
No problems here whatsoever.
No problems here whatsoever.
This is true for a vast majority of people... you just hear more from those with problems. In general the problems are often of their own creation by using "plugins" to applications that don't support plugins, installing haxies, upgrading without verifying the 3rd party hardware they have is compatible, forcing the system to run with a 64b kernel for no good reason, etc.
LOL... I told you so...
Do not get Snow Leopard yet, it will come full of bugs, wait for at least 6 months.
I open a thread about it and a bunch of loosers were upset of the warning and now they are complaining of the problemas they are facing.
Just WAIT!
Do not get Snow Leopard yet, it will come full of bugs, wait for at least 6 months.
I open a thread about it and a bunch of loosers were upset of the warning and now they are complaining of the problemas they are facing.
Just WAIT!
Is anyone else having problems in illustrator? I had problems resizing text and then it would just crash. Really put a damper on my projects.
The bugs aren't so bad, most can't wait to get something new such as an operating system from Apple.
That's Adobes fault they knew SL was coming out they had time to get updates and yet didn't fix your issue? A**holes.
Safari icons
I removed and then reinstalled the Safari icon on the dock and it is now moveable.
I removed and then reinstalled the Safari icon on the dock and it is now moveable.
And yet . . .
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10345768-37.html
Snow Leopard Apple's most compatible release ever
Mac OS X Snow Leopard has been available for one week, and for the most part, users are reporting very few problems upgrading.
While not everyone is thrilled with the way Apple handled the release, it turns out that Snow Leopard is Apple's most compatible operating system release ever. According to sources familiar with Snow Leopard's internal testing process, Apple kept an enormous amount of statistics on third-party application compatibility.
They said that Apple not only tracked many of the most widely-used apps, they tracked many of the shareware apps, as well. If an application exhibited problems, the developers were notified of the incompatibility and were offered help to make it Snow Leopard-compliant.
It's true that Apple did not offer a public beta of Snow Leopard, but it did expand the seed program with this release. Some large and small businesses, as well as individuals were included in the beta program for Snow Leopard. Of course, developers have access to the code through Apple's Developer Program, to test their apps through the entire process.
Apple began working with developers in June 2008, according to my source. This gave developers the maximum amount of time to check their apps against the new operating system.
While complete data was not available for this story, anecdotal evidence suggests that upgrade problems with Snow Leopard are not widespread.
That's not to say there aren't problems. CNET's Rafe Needleman found several apps that didn't work with the new operating system. Apple also posted a list of incompatible software on its support Web site.
BusinessWeek's Stephen Wildstrom feels that the compatibility problems with Snow Leopard are "widespread but not pervasive."
Wildstrom says that Apple should have done three things differently: it should have released a public beta; it should have provided a pre-upgrade compatibility checker; and he feels developers weren't given enough time with the finished code.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10345768-37.html
Snow Leopard Apple's most compatible release ever
Mac OS X Snow Leopard has been available for one week, and for the most part, users are reporting very few problems upgrading.
While not everyone is thrilled with the way Apple handled the release, it turns out that Snow Leopard is Apple's most compatible operating system release ever. According to sources familiar with Snow Leopard's internal testing process, Apple kept an enormous amount of statistics on third-party application compatibility.
They said that Apple not only tracked many of the most widely-used apps, they tracked many of the shareware apps, as well. If an application exhibited problems, the developers were notified of the incompatibility and were offered help to make it Snow Leopard-compliant.
It's true that Apple did not offer a public beta of Snow Leopard, but it did expand the seed program with this release. Some large and small businesses, as well as individuals were included in the beta program for Snow Leopard. Of course, developers have access to the code through Apple's Developer Program, to test their apps through the entire process.
Apple began working with developers in June 2008, according to my source. This gave developers the maximum amount of time to check their apps against the new operating system.
While complete data was not available for this story, anecdotal evidence suggests that upgrade problems with Snow Leopard are not widespread.
That's not to say there aren't problems. CNET's Rafe Needleman found several apps that didn't work with the new operating system. Apple also posted a list of incompatible software on its support Web site.
BusinessWeek's Stephen Wildstrom feels that the compatibility problems with Snow Leopard are "widespread but not pervasive."
Wildstrom says that Apple should have done three things differently: it should have released a public beta; it should have provided a pre-upgrade compatibility checker; and he feels developers weren't given enough time with the finished code.
*LTD* I don't think anyone be able to do enough damage control. My brother was complaining about upgrading to Snow Leopard today since his printer was still not working. No matter what drivers you install for the HP PSC 1401 it won't work under Snow Leopard. This is only compounded by the fact that Software Update wasn't getting the drivers either. I tried the Snow Leopard disc and downloaded the massive driver package as well. He had to come over to my place an use the guest iMac G4 running Tiger to print something off. I was lucky to convince him to get it since it was $29. He can't tell the difference from Leopard besides his printer doesn't work anymore and that's all that matters to him.
I'm having my own issues as well even using a clean install. I'm pretty much forcing myself to run my upgraded version of Snow Leopard. It's tough when your browsers keep crashing.
I'm having my own issues as well even using a clean install. I'm pretty much forcing myself to run my upgraded version of Snow Leopard. It's tough when your browsers keep crashing.
Don't really need to. The vast majority seem just fine with SL.
The only real issues are a few apps that don't work, and some printer driver issues. Incidentally, FWIW, all my apps work and my printer was recognized automatically. In fact, I even received an HP driver update via the Software Update around two hours ago. So you've provided one bit of anecdotal info, and I've provided another.
Don't use MacRumors or AI as your measure. Just scan the general news and get a feel for the ebb and flow of opinion. For the most part, things are alright.
I'm getting a disaster area to complete yawnfest. I had a few people bugging me about yet another Snow Leopard must be Vista if I'm seeing this many "problem/complaint" threads on other boards. I spent an hour trying to get that printer to work too with no luck. I'm about to give up on Snow Leopard in this state. I'm tired of trying to do damage control and defend it when it doesn't work for me either.
It's rather aggravating going from a working printer in Leopard to being completely unable to get it to work in Snow Leopard no matter what you do short of upgrading back to Leopard. Yes, at this point I consider Leopard an upgrade. It's that bad in the trenches I've been in.
I wonder why I'm running Snow Leopard to be honest. I'm using Windows 7 because at least it doesn't have browser crashes when trying to use the Open File dialog.
See, I don't get that. In fact, nothing at all has crashed since I installed SL. Nothing has hung, nothing has frozen.
There was that little RAID drive issue, but I think I might have hosed them beforehand by mucking around in Disk Utility in Leopard.
So either the public blind, deaf and dumb, or they're simply not finding a helluva lot to complain about. As for the complaints on the Apple fansites, all I know is that the opinions here have never really been a reflection of Apple's market at large.
Why not just go back to Leopard for the time being? If you can still run Leopard I don't know why you'd run Windows 7 instead.
I'll just avoid OS X for the time being until the issues are addressed. I don't feel like spending the 90 minutes needed to restore my machine back to Leopard or clean install Leopard and migrate my new user state since I've made plenty of changes since Snow Leopard was installed. Not to mention the Time Machine backup after that.
I'm still having people run to me for help on other boards because of how knowledgeable I am on Macs and OS X. It's getting tiresome.
The media in general isn't terribly impressed with Snow Leopard. It's nothing to talk about. There's plenty of other hardware and software news right now that's much more incredibly interesting than hearing the moans about Snow Leopard.
I'm still on Leopard. I learned a long time ago not to upgrade on day 1.
But who uses File Open dialog in a browser anyhow ? The address bar is much faster and can be used to open local files using the file:// "protocol".
But who uses File Open dialog in a browser anyhow ? The address bar is much faster and can be used to open local files using the file:// "protocol".
Nope i ain't but i am having problems with VMware fusion - it will not work when the unit is booted with the 64 bit kernel extensions. I have now had to sign up for the beta program to test there version compatible for those running the 64 bit kernel extensions.
So far i have had 1 kernel panic running the software, other then that everything seems to be running nicely.
As far as SL being a less-exciting release, I can certainly agree with you.
I do like the Exposé refinements, though. Especially the icon previews/ability to play files just from the icon itself. Not terribly useful, but a nice touch.
How are you going to select files to upload?
Type the path into the file selection field instead of hitting the browse button ? Again... much faster to copy paste the path than to click through the darn open file dialog (those things have been crap forever in any OS).
File path? I use Spotlight comment tags.
I know where the files are but I'd have to rename all of them and even then it's a few thousand different ones. I thought spotlight tagging everything was hard enough the first time. Believe me I've done it more than once.
What are they going to have me do? Move back to Leopard for now?
The printer driver download service is still down like it was yesterday. Software Update just tells me to try again later, still. Installing all of the printer drivers from the Snow Leopard DVD does nothing. kextd took an eternity as well.