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Snow Leopard Install/Reactions Thread

silverpig

silverpig

Lifer
I'm still waiting on my copy to arrive. Some of you have yours already. Installed? Smooth or were there hangups? Initial impressions? Does all of your hardware/software work?

Clean install or upgrade?

Hackintosh or genuine mac?
 
Waiting for mine to arrive, just ordered it from Amazon. $25, I can believe the price :laugh:

So far I've heard that Finder is buggy and that like 95% of the applications work. Might be worth waiting until the first Point Update before totally upgrading.

I'll be going the Hackintosh route (shocking, I know). Rockin on with my trusty UD3P & Q6600 :thumbsup: 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Kaido
Originally posted by: silverpig
Yeah I've got a MBP 13" with an OCZ Summit SSD, and a Q6600/EP45 DS3L hack.
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Wow how's that SSD?
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Honestly... fucking fast. Safari, iWork, MS Office apps all open up fresh as fast as if they were minimized. When booting up, the apple logo screen is up for a few seconds, then you're on the desktop.

I went with the 60 GB Summit for price reasons ($179 CAD on a deal), and I won't need all the space so it's great for me. I still have 34 GB free and all I'll be putting on from now on are school/work related docs so I'm good.

The Summit is based on the Samsung controller, not the Indilinx as the Vertex drives are. No garbage collection/TRIM yet, and as of now I'd say the Vertex is the better buy in terms of speed/features, but apparently the Vertex is hit and miss in the macbook pros. Some people have no problems, others can't get the drive to work at all. The Apple SSDs that you have the option of using use the Samsung controllers (so essentially, the Summit drives) so Summits work flawlessly in the mbp, even if they are still waiting on a firmware update for TRIM.
 
I just installed Snow Leopard. I was at the mall for other reasons, but walked past the Apple store and figured why not.

It's too soon to tell what's different/better/worse, but the system pretty much looks exactly as it did before. The dock expose feature is kind of neat (click and hold to show all windows for an active program). I didn't check to see how much space I had before, so I have no idea how much space was freed up.

I use FileVault, which isn't even mentioned in the booklet that comes with it, so I'll report back if there are any quirks there.
 
Originally posted by: sjwaste
I just installed Snow Leopard. I was at the mall for other reasons, but walked past the Apple store and figured why not.

It's too soon to tell what's different/better/worse, but the system pretty much looks exactly as it did before. The dock expose feature is kind of neat (click and hold to show all windows for an active program). I didn't check to see how much space I had before, so I have no idea how much space was freed up.

I use FileVault, which isn't even mentioned in the booklet that comes with it, so I'll report back if there are any quirks there.
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Fresh or update?
 
Running a mid-2008 flavor black macbook (2.4 Ghz, 2 GB RAM, 250 GB HD, crappy Intel graphics).. I have installed it as of about 1.5 hours ago.. ran all my major programs (R, Kinemage, Handbrake, etc.) that are not considered 'mainstream' apps.. they all seem to work fine so far. Kinemage is a home-grown 3D structural biology tool created by a professor for a class I am in, and it works seamlessly. I feel like Expose presents my windows in a cleaner and more logical format. Other than that, I have noticed a generally faster loading experience for my apps. I haven't even touched the 'new' Quicktime X or anything that may make the benefits of OpenCL. I feel like the OS is more responsive to window movement (i.e. expose and spaces) and minimize/maximize. Finder does seem much faster, as searching for a specific file I have looked for numerous times previously pops up in under a second, versus 4-5 seconds in Leopard. Overall, I am expecting my experience to be worth the $29.. The 'refined' interface, such as minor things like the color scheme for menus when clicking on items in the dock, is nothing special, but a nice addition. Just installed VMWare and need to load my Windows Server 2008 edition onto it (bring on Windows 7) to test MATlab and a few specialized Windows programs I used to run under BootCamp .. hoping that these work just fine under VMWare (and not sure if it will have anything to do with Snow Leopard)
 
iMac, Aluminum, 20" 2GHz

Upgrade install. (I'll do a clean install when I replace the hard drive next week).

Everything is fine. Photoshop CS, Picasa, VMWare Fusion, Safari, etc. all work great.

Safari loads unbelievably fast. I'm guessing that they built some cheats into the OS, because I have never seen the performance of an app ever increase that much.

The dock is more organized, and the contextual menus for dock icons are nice.

Booting seems a little faster.

10.6 freed up 8GB from my hard disk.

I'll let Time Machine run tonight and see what happens...
 
Originally posted by: timswim78
iMac, Aluminum, 20" 2GHz

Upgrade install. (I'll do a clean install when I replace the hard drive next week).

Everything is fine. Photoshop CS, Picasa, VMWare Fusion, Safari, etc. all work great.

Safari loads unbelievably fast. I'm guessing that they built some cheats into the OS, because I have never seen the performance of an app ever increase that much.

The dock is more organized, and the contextual menus for dock icons are nice.

Booting seems a little faster.

10.6 freed up 8GB from my hard disk.

I'll let Time Machine run tonight and see what happens...
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I am tempted to get this for my Core Duo MacBook but since all the really exciting stuff is only for the later IntelMacs, I am not sure how much of a boost I will see really.
 
Also, strangely, I went from 126.83 GB free to 144.62 GB after install. That seems like a really high amount of freed space, I'm not sure what the hell it could be from. But I'm not complaining.
 
I think I read something about Snow Leopard calling 1MB = 1,000,000 bytes. That could explain the new-found free space as well.
 
did a clean install (erased my hd). no issues for me actually, minus the programs i use needing updates (menu meters) and 64 bit compatibility if needed. 🙂
 
I did a clean install, still setting up applications. I'm not noticing any speed improvements yet. I played around with ichat, used safari, imported my itunes and iphoto librarys, seems about the same to me.
 
i've installed it on my penryn mbp and my white macbook. SMOOTH as butta on the installs. no noticeable changes, but i'm assuming the big gains come later when the devs catch up.
 
Originally posted by: silverpig
Originally posted by: sjwaste
I just installed Snow Leopard. I was at the mall for other reasons, but walked past the Apple store and figured why not.

It's too soon to tell what's different/better/worse, but the system pretty much looks exactly as it did before. The dock expose feature is kind of neat (click and hold to show all windows for an active program). I didn't check to see how much space I had before, so I have no idea how much space was freed up.

I use FileVault, which isn't even mentioned in the booklet that comes with it, so I'll report back if there are any quirks there.
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I updated. I probably won't do a fresh install unless there's a compelling reason. Mostly, I'm afraid that Time Machine won't be able to pull back my FileVault-enabled home directories. I regularly back the machine up from a 3rd, non-FV, user account, so in theory they should be backed up.

So far, I haven't noticed much. I like the expose changes. I have gotten a few beach balls where I wouldn't normally. I fooled with booting the 64 bit kernel, but it seems all Macbooks are locked out of that. Still, it's just a novelty, I have 2 gigs of RAM in my laptop, not 32 gigs.
 
Well, the new safari is annoying. Now if the first website you open doesn't load, you can't seem to stop it I just get a beach ball while it waits. No way to open a new tab, go to a already open tab and read it while I wait, nope just stuck.
 
13" MBP Drop-in Upgrade to 10.6.

A few bugs. Mainly the 4-finger Expose and Desktop. If you drag one direction and then decide to cancel, it goes back to either Expose or Desktop. Need to release then go in the same direction. The other direction still bugs out.

Otherwise, it's every that was in the beta and better. Exchange integration is extremely nice for my work (We use Exchange 2007 for email, contacts, and calendars). I do miss the tabs being on top in Safari in the early betas though.
 
I got Snow Leopard today. Thankfully the Purolator desk at the stationary store is open Saturdays. Take a look at the box it came in. Talk about excessive packaging and not even any bubble wrap to play with. 😛
http://mmntech.blogspot.com/20...-leopard-unboxing.html

I don't remember Leopard being that bad.
Anyway, I'm just backing up my laptop, then I'll get to installing it.

EDIT: Had to fix one of my pics. I have a bad habit of getting ahead of myself. lol
 
installed it on an original Core Duo Macbook. everything works after the update, although some things spit out some errors messages about frameworks.

expose is definitely smoother, and no more dealing with the terrible network share problems of the old Finder. everything is butter smooth now.
 
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