Snow Leopard

[NikonMarty]

anyone try installing this yet?
seems i get to the 50 min left mark and it spits out the cd, reboots and that's it
2.4 GHz intel duo core and still running 10.5.8, not the 10.6 i should be

thanx

[nasoj21]

windows 7?

[NikonMarty]

weird i thought i replied on this with a solution..

lol, windows...what's that?
that's where i usually aim any pc i've ever owned

after a few more tries i found that a boot from disk (option button at boot) did it..new OS installed
have found tho that the lightscribe software is no longer printing properly..all i'm getting is a big black patch, no image
off to find another burn package for that

[Gna]

As usual, when new software is introduced, it's got bugs. I've found it saves me a lot of trouble, aggravation, and time when I wait for an update or two before installing it. And Apple reseller sales people – yesterday and the day before I visited 3 Apple resellers for this very purpose – recommend waiting in the case of SL as well.

[rnyholm]

I have SL on the iMac and MacPro and works well. Take contact with apple care and they give you the right answer.

[Gna]

Originally Posted by rnyholm

I have SL on the iMac and MacPro and works well. Take contact with apple care and they give you the right answer.

According to Apple forums – and according to sales people at Apple resellers – Snow Leopard causes a lot of people a lot of problems: crashes, freezes, peripherals not working, doesn't do a clean install, doesn't handle PDFs correctly, ethernet problems, Trash problems, iPhoto problems, Flash problems, Wi-Fi problems, etc. etc. etc. The list goes on and on...

Snow Leopard is clearly not ready for the market yet, and Apple should be ashamed of itself for releasing malware like that under the moniker of a "new and improved operating system".

It's best – and recommended by sales people at Apple resellers! – to NOT install Snow Leopard just yet, but to wait for OSX.6.1, or preferably even OSX.6.2. Although that may be a few months...

[NikonMarty]

thanx all, appreciate the help

[Gna]

OSX.6.1 is out.
Access via Software Update.

[SensorDust]

I installed SL the day it came out last week. No problem with either macbook pro or mac pro quad core. I downloaded the 10.6.1 update today and no problem either. Love my macs.

[NikonMarty]

appreciate the info Gna...just have to do a Pictage upload and then i'll reboot for the install

[julieharnage]

ahh Im glad I read this, I think I'll wait a bit till the buggies are out!

[rnyholm]

Originally Posted by Gna

According to Apple forums – and according to sales people at Apple resellers – Snow Leopard causes a lot of people a lot of problems:

According to my own experience Snow Leopard works perfect and that is the only thing that is important to me.

[xxloverxx]

Snowy's working well for me; have been using it for the past few weeks.

[ashleykaryl]

I had major problems shortly after installing Snow Leopard, but it turned out to be a hard drive that was actually failing. I wrote a blog post about it at:

Computer headaches and why you should always backup your data! | Nude Photo Pro

After having a new drive installed and doing a clean install, I decided to only install the applications I regularly use, such as Office 2008 and Photoshop CS4 etc. without the 101 small utility programs we often install but never actually use. Apart from a few very minor bugs I have to say that OS X has never been faster or more stable and I have been using it since it was first released about 8 ago. Snow Leopard doesn't deserve much criticism based on what I am seeing here.

[ashleykaryl]

As a quick follow up to the original question by NikonMarty, something is clearly wrong and I would contact Apple directly. I was able to upgrade from 10.5.8 without a problem and was just unlucky that my drive started to fail a couple days later.

[tomrock]

Originally Posted by Gna

According to Apple forums – and according to sales people at Apple resellers – Snow Leopard causes a lot of people a lot of problems: crashes, freezes, peripherals not working, doesn't do a clean install, doesn't handle PDFs correctly, ethernet problems, Trash problems, iPhoto problems, Flash problems, Wi-Fi problems, etc. etc. etc. The list goes on and on...

Snow Leopard is clearly not ready for the market yet, and Apple should be ashamed of itself for releasing malware like that under the moniker of a "new and improved operating system".

It's best – and recommended by sales people at Apple resellers! – to NOT install Snow Leopard just yet, but to wait for OSX.6.1, or preferably even OSX.6.2. Although that may be a few months...

I haven't heard anything like this at all. My wife and I have Snow Leopard running on two MacBook Pros, an iMac and a Mac Pro and we don't have any problems at all.

I promise you you're wrong about Apple salespeople not recommending SL -- Apple salespeople recommend it every day.

Sure, there may be minor issues here and there but SL is a great upgrade and worth installing.

[Gna]

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Originally Posted by Gna
According to Apple forums – and according to sales people at Apple resellers – Snow Leopard causes a lot of people a lot of problems: crashes, freezes, peripherals not working, doesn't do a clean install, doesn't handle PDFs correctly, ethernet problems, Trash problems, iPhoto problems, Flash problems, Wi-Fi problems, etc. etc. etc. The list goes on and on...

Snow Leopard is clearly not ready for the market yet, and Apple should be ashamed of itself for releasing malware like that under the moniker of a "new and improved operating system".

It's best – and recommended by sales people at Apple resellers! – to NOT install Snow Leopard just yet, but to wait for OSX.6.1, or preferably even OSX.6.2. Although that may be a few months...

Originally Posted by tomrock

I haven't heard anything like this at all. My wife and I have Snow Leopard running on two MacBook Pros, an iMac and a Mac Pro and we don't have any problems at all.

I promise you you're wrong about Apple salespeople not recommending SL -- Apple salespeople recommend it every day.

Sure, there may be minor issues here and there but SL is a great upgrade and worth installing.

Originally Posted by tomrock

I haven't heard anything like this at all.

Then you haven't read Ashley's post in this thread, tom, or

Mac OS - AppleInsider

Mac OS - AppleInsider

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My wife and I have Snow Leopard running on two MacBook Pros, an iMac and a Mac Pro and we don't have any problems at all.

I promise you you're wrong about Apple salespeople not recommending SL -- Apple salespeople recommend it every day.

Wrong? If they told me it to my face? Are you denying reality?
You're wishful thinking, tom.
Of course! Apple sales people would recommend SL. Sales people at Apple resellers don't, however: because 1) they don't lose their jobs for telling the truth!, and 2) they don't want all the aggravation as a result of frozen Macs with SL.

Sure, there may be minor issues here and there but SL is a great upgrade and worth installing.

With so many major issues SL is far from "a great upgrade". In fact Apple should be deeply ashamed of itself for releasing such an immature product.

[tomrock]

Gina -- I didn't see Ashley's post in the forum you linked -- I just see a forum talking about Mac stuff. Nothing about how terrible SL is, although I guess that thread might be there.

Should I link to all the great reviews SL is getting -- MacNN, Mac Daily News, MacRumors, Mac OS X Hints, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and on and on?

NO WHERE have I seen that SL was released prematurely except in your post. The small sample that I know of (friends and family who are using it) all think it's great. That's a fact.

I think you may be making a "tempest in a teapot" as they say.

It really is a great upgrade, but if you're nervous about upgrading, by all means wait. I'm sure Apple is working on 10.6.2 and by then it may be good enough.

[ashleykaryl]

As far as I can remember I have never posted on Apple Insider unless Gina is referring to a different Ashley. 10.6 is running beautifully for me now I have that hardware problem sorted out. From where I am sitting no earlier version of OS X or for that matter any other OS has ever been better.

[mrpalmer420]

I installed SL right away like a fool, And i went to change my preferences in DPP and kept getting an error message so i contacted canon, Their response was that DPP is not full compatible with SL yet. UGH!!!