DISQUS

hypermark · 3 months ago

While I am plunking my $30 down gladly, my money is on Snow Leopard having some unannounced functionality that is important to the Tablet and/or new ways that Apple will better bridge the distinctions between MacOS and iPhoneOS computing models

The assumption here is that Apple wants/hopes/needs everyone to upgrade to take advantage of something unannounced, and are pricing the upgrade accordingly.

Here’s a post on my analysis:

Analysis: Apple June Quarter Earnings Call
http://bit.ly/vbi9q

Check it out if interested.

Mark

roselinke · 3 months ago

that snow leopard looks tired. maybe he's working too hard. great article over here on the ever-feline mac os names...great read: http://onthebutton.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/app...

perry555 · 3 months ago

I was unfortunate enough to have to use a defunct Apple Mac for the last couple of weeks. Before giving it to me, my friend upgraded it to the latest (crappy) Mac OS X which was the version right before "SNOW LEOPARD" (?)

The damn thing is SLOW as mollasess. I just cannot grasp how a computer that is running on an INTEL CORE 2 DUO, which is a very fast CPU, can be so sluggish! I mean it takes 30 seconds to switch from one application to another, if heaven forbid, I decide to use something as "advanced" as multitasking on it. Even switching from one window to another window in the SAME application takes at least 10 seconds! I mean what is wrong with these people??

I have a HP Pavillion Windows Vista laptop with the same CPU as the Mac on it and it runs like a rocket in spite of the fact that Vista is supposed to be "slow" in comparison to Windows XP.

I think people should really boycott this stupid company (Apple) and let evolution put it out of its misery...obviously they do not have any engineers to help them out besides the INTEL engineers that helped them switch from PowerPC to Intel, 6 years ago.

PS:
After doing the Mac OS X Upgrade, we spent the next 2 hours downloading bug fixes from Apple! And it still has serious problems, every once in a while the menu bar from an application I had previously quit sticks around and prevents me from using the computer, then a whole bunch of nonsensical error Dialog boxes pop up...waiting 5 minutes usually clears the menubar problem, but WOW!

clarkinhho · 3 months ago

I suggest checking his HD for errors. The reason why i suggest that is, if it takes that long to switch from app to app or to start programs, chances are your hard drive is either failing or about to. Go to Disk utilities and find out.

I have snow leopard installed from Leopard since it was released. I have, as usual, ZERO crash. Everything works FAST FAST FAST. I use my computer a whole lot. Multi task at least 8 apps. My computer is FASTER. Also the colors looks way better and sharper.

Maybe you had currupted files prior to installing snow leopard. Good luck. I didn't know Apple had bug fixes for snow leopard.

After the install though the first time starting the computer was slow to boot up and the task bar was slow... but it was rendering all the files like for spotlight, etc... After i shut down and restarted, it now works GREAT. WELL WELL WELL worth the $50.(family pack)

BTW my whole family have the same review, fast, and smooth with great color detail.

perry555busted · 3 months ago

If Apple were a stupid company, then why the need for a boycott? I mean would the market (or evolution as you call it" put them out of business anyways?

"After doing the Mac OS X Upgrade, we spent the next 2 hours downloading bug fixes from Apple!"

Your BS is transparent to anyone who actually uses a Mac, but I found the line above to be an excellent example of your cluelessness/dishonesty: There were no updates to Snow Leopard at the time of your posting.

berlo · 2 months ago

hp pavilion fast like a rocket? the constant fan makes it sound like it, but faster it ain't.

David · 3 months ago

Snow Leopard does not allow you to connect the AT&T's U-verse Gateway router via Wi-Fi.
If you have AT&T U-verse and connect to the internet via their Gateway Wi-Fi router - Snow Leopard will not allow you to connect.
I spent an hour on the phone with Apple Tech support and another hour on the phone with AT&T. The Apple tech support said that Snow Leopard should not have affected the internet connection, AT&T said that their router and settings haven't changed. The router is working fine with the other computers in the house - only my MacBook Pro quit connecting after updating to Snow Leopard. I'm still not connected...

Marty · 3 months ago

I have the same problem with the one Macbook Pro I upgraded to Snow Leopard while the other two non-upgraded machines still work perfectly fine. I also have an Airport Extreme that works for all others but not the newly upgraded Snow Leopard. The only way I can connect is via a LAN connection now.

drewb1 · 3 months ago

Go to library>preferences>system configuration (make a copy first just in case) them all away and restart. Worked for me

Rene · 3 weeks ago

same problem with macbook pro, snow leopard and uverse wifi. deleting system configuration then restart worked.

robinm9 · 2 months ago

I have the opposite problem my Macbook Pro I upgraded to Snow Leopard works fine with my Time Machine as router, but the other Macbook Air running Leopard won't connect using DHCP. I have to manually set an ip address and now the Printer won't work.

No · 3 months ago

Matlab R2009a is broken as well as Peerguardian. Thunderbird shows the UI glitches described above when you are in the configuration screens only.

payo · 3 months ago

I upgraded 4 of my macs the same day that Snow Leopard (10.6) was released. They all seams to run way faster that Leopard (10.5). However, yes... there are some old applications that are glitchy but they are all old applications. I also noted that some permissions in the file system changed and performance can be improved by running the disk utility after the install. Network management over iChat is a huge difference over the last version.
Now, ironically, while 10.6 runs faster than 10.5, if used in a network that runs Leopard Server 10.5.8, authentication has a little delay (Note: no roaming profiles).
But overall, I can't complain. I'm very happy with the changes especially with how fast the Finder is responding and handling task.
This are all iMacs 2.8 GHz intel with 4 GB RAM.

Lei · 3 months ago

Can i downgrade from snow leopard to leopard or even tiger?? I installed Snow Leopard on Friday when it came out, and now I can't use microsoft office, matlab, or any work programs. Who cares if it's faster if you can't even use it?

jt · 3 months ago

Same here! I cannot open Microsoft Office at all... I am trying to do a reinstall and am sooo annoyed.

garyknights · 3 months ago

cannot get it to connect to the web via Belkin router. Tried everything. Going to take snow leopard back to the shop as its useless to me. My other mac not upgraded will connect. Seems the web is full of stories about this problem. Tried new locations and all the methods listed on the web that i have found. It connected to the router but would not show web pages. Dropped connection every few minutes. Totally rubbish.Very poor effort to release this

Francesco Turci · 3 months ago

For what i have read till now, the problem of Snow Leopard is that it doesn't work the same on every mac, even if they're new models. It seems that i have been lucky (or the others unlucky) since everything (Office, Matlab, Mail, Safari, iTunes,Pixelmator, TexMate, Eclipse, shared printers, wireless ...) is working fine here, maybe without the incredible speed boost that some review cited, but with some appreciable improvements, together with a better interface.... It's sad to see that even for Mac OS it happens what often happens in Linux world: a new version is perfect for someone, and a nightmare for someone else.

adam platt · 3 months ago

What can be done to deal with this appalling situation? A class action or what? The snow leopard I bought for two computers has wrecked the one I have used it on and will not be used on the second macbook as cannot get Wifi to work using airport at all. EWhile this the un upgraded mac is fine on the same service....This is disgusting....adam platt

NCOside · 2 months ago

Have been a Mac user (and fan, though not a rabid fanboy) since the mid-90s. Installed SL on a MacPro with 2x3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors and 16GB of memory, and the machine is a bloody mess. Applications that, under Leopard, ran flawlessly, like Photoshop CS4, Dreamweaver CS4, now exhibit behavior I can only characterize as erratic. I did the whole "delete preferences, install Rosetta etc etc" thing and, at best, my Mac is running like my Vista laptop. And Apple Tech Support is little to no help, claiming that "hey, the big companies had SL for months before release,to test and correct compatibility issues, so it can't be Snow Leopard that's the problem." To say that I am disappointed would be an understatement. The only alternative seems to be an uninstall of SL. This OS sucketh.

Name · 1 month ago

So far SL is a bad joke. I have used every Mac OS since 1985, and this is the worst upgrade I can remember (yes, I used various flavors of OS8). Multiple hard crashes while trying to use a pair of daisy-chained FW drives. Logic 8.02 hangs. FinalDraft7 hangs. TextEdit hangs (!!! freaking TEXTEDIT!!!).

I cannot work - the machine is unusable. I will go back to my old laptop running 10.5.8, buy new versions of Logic, FCP, FD, and wait for 10.6.2 or .3 or .4 - which ever fixes this Vista-esque steaming pile of crap.

John · 1 month ago

Not feeling snow leopard. Aren't they endangered of becoming extinct?