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Who installed Snow Leopard without a hitch?

The answer is:

Most People!

Unfortunately, those who have bad experiences/want to complain are the ones who post on forums. If you would believe the rants on here reflect a representative selection of all Apple products, the company would have gone under years ago.
 
I read somewhere about someone doing an "Archive and Install" in SL. I thought that wasn't possible.

Isn't it just Upgrade or Manual Clean Install via Disk Utility?

On a side-note: I just did a normal upgrade, and some things are a tad slow, I assume SL is just "getting its bearings" if you know what I mean. Anyway is it best to restart or shutdown then turn on again to get rid of the niggles?
 
i installed it mostly without any trouble... the only trouble i had was having to find an alternate driver for my printer, and also it tends to freeze up and give me the spinning wheel for no apparent reason (i'll have iTunes and Firefox open and when i try to switch desktops it gets all glitchy). otherwise, there's zero difference in the speed of the OS, or pretty much anything else. this release, in all honesty, was totally pointless. they should've kept snow leopard a beta of the next OS, and then once they've done all their fancy UI stuff, release it. i know this will piss off some of the mac superfans, but it's a really pointless upgrade. the only reason i did it is because it cost $9.95 for me.
 
snverhallen said:
I read somewhere about someone doing an "Archive and Install" in SL. I thought that wasn't possible.

Isn't it just Upgrade or Manual Clean Install via Disk Utility?
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One more time:

You did an "archive and install" if you did the default install.

S-
 
I've upgraded on my MBP, Mac Mini, and two white macbooks so far without any issues. I was nervous when I read all the bitching going on about SL in these forums but I went ahead and started with the MBP and I have no complaints.
 
I did a clean install on my mid-'07 Mac mini, and aside from a couple of f*** ups I caused that led to a few more installs, it was perfect.
 
I dunno why so many people are having problems. It's not hard to install. Just make sure you clean out your system before you install. That's what I did. I just uninstalled some minor software and a lot of my preference prefs 'cause I knew they wouldn't work.
 
me 😀 I did clean install deleted leopard and beta snow leopard and installed it 😀 with no problems
 
Two machines here, no problems. Both my MBPs listed in my sig. It's faster and smoother than Leopard. Really a nice refinement IMO.
 
sidewinder said:
One more time:

You did an "archive and install" if you did the default install.

S-
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No you didn't.

Normally archive and install is the default. However, with Snow Leopard, the default was "upgrade". That means it's the same System folder with many, many, many files and folders replaced. An archive and install will make an archive of your old system folder and add an entirely new system folder, hence "archive and install". There's no archive with an upgrade.
 
mslide said:
No problems here. I did a fresh install. I'm also not using the 64-bit kernel, nor did I even attempt to use it. I wasn't expecting many problems but I was a little surprised as to how painless everything was.
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same here.
 
Did an upgrade on my MBP 2.26 without any real issue. I had to upgrade Flip4Mac afterwards and istat menus dosen't show up in the titlebar but meh...
 
Upgraded 2 systems, nary a hitch on either.

Things are.... snappier on both machines.

Much much better experience than Leopard.
 
i installed it fresh on a second partition of my macbooks hd. still kept tiger to boot from. couldn't have been any smoother. i only migrated over my settings and network. SL connected with my airport express to apple immediately after install.

booted up, repaired a couple permission errors that showed up and installed iLife and iWork '09. so far so good
 
Fresh install on a Macbook 1,1 and upgrade on a Macbook 3,1 without a hitch. Graphics on both are a little jittery but I would assume that will improve with updates. Gets the thumbs up from me!
 
Updated an iMac 3.06G C2D and a unibody Macbook with no issues. Have the iMac running in 64 bit mode with no issues.
 
I just tried wirelessly printing to my HP printer connect to an Airport Extreme, and no problems at all whatsoever, with Snow Leopard.
 
You hardly ever hear from people when things go right, so that's where the misconception is coming from that SL is bug-ridden. Mine went GREAT, and I did the update, not a clean re-install.
 
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