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I have a mac pro and a macbook

My macbook sees only occassional usage since i bought the pro so i decide to do the upgrade on the macbook first.

First problem i encountered was that i couldnt do the upgrade no matter how many times i tried, so eventually i went for the clean install to get snow leopard on the macbook.

First impressions, quicker boot up and shut down times, all my software still runs in snow leopard....................BUT!!!!.........................so unstable, mail crashes regularly, safari crashes, everything is so much less stable than under leopard

Im wondering if something went wrong in the installation process cos its just not like a mac to be this instable!

Needless to say i still havent risked installing it on my Mac Pro

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No complaints. I had a minor issue with getting my canon printer driver working but I've over-come that issue.

There's bound to be problems, with an OS upgrade. I'm surprised at how smoothly things went with SL, especially given how so much of the stuff under the hood changed. While we consumers didn't get too much in terms of new features. Much has changed underneath to position OSX for the future and also aide the developer code for muilticore machines.
 
To answer my own question -- this weekend I upgraded my two Mac minis and a Macbook with Snow Leopard, and have encountered NO issues so far. New drivers were automatically loaded for my H-P 8250 and Brother HL-1850 printers and Epson 1650 scanner, and all seem to work properly.

Everything seems a bit faster, too. I'm delighted.

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Just as a follow up to this.......................I installed Snow Leopard on my other Mac last week (the Mac Pro) and it installed in less than an hour and none of the bugs on the Macbook have appeared on the Pro, im even booting it in full 64 bit mode and its been rock solid.

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Derek C said:
Just as a follow up to this.......................I installed Snow Leopard on my other Mac last week (the Mac Pro) and it installed in less than an hour and none of the bugs on the Macbook have appeared on the Pro, im even booting it in full 64 bit mode and its been rock solid.
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How do you boot in 64 bit mode?

I have noticed some slow downs in Aperture(spinning beach ball) since upgrading. Is there something I should adjust(PRAM zap)?
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press 6 and 4 during boot

http://macperformanceguide.com/SnowLeopard-64bit.html

or use this one

http://www.ahatfullofsky.comuv.com/English/Programs/SMS/SMS.html

or this one

http://www.thrull.com/corner/mac/SystemModeConfigurator/

"It is important to know that there are no good reasons to run machines with less than 4 GB RAM in 64 bit mode. Snow Leopard runs 32/64it applications in both modes (look at Activity Monitor application). The only real differnce is that 32 bit mode cannot run 64 bit kernel extensions and vice versa (so VirtualBox and Parallels Desktop may not run in 64bit mode). Feel free to experiment with 64 bit technology."
MarkMe said:
Derek C said:
Just as a follow up to this.......................I installed Snow Leopard on my other Mac last week (the Mac Pro) and it installed in less than an hour and none of the bugs on the Macbook have appeared on the Pro, im even booting it in full 64 bit mode and its been rock solid.
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How do you boot in 64 bit mode?

I have noticed some slow downs in Aperture(spinning beach ball) since upgrading. Is there something I should adjust(PRAM zap)?
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If your running quicken, say goodby to that, also the Huey pro calibrator has many issues including it will not hold the gamma setting.
 
henryk1 said:
Is there anyone who HASN'T encountered problems running Snow Leopard with software and hardware that ran fine with OS X 10.5.8? Over on Macfixit.com there seem to be a lot of irritated folks, as there were here recently. I haven't yet received my SL upgrade and am wondering if I ought to wait for 10.6.2 to be released, whenever that might be, before installing it.
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I'm running Lightroom 2.6 on my MacBook Pro 2.8Ghz 4GB RAM machine and LR runs fast and local editing brushes works like a charm. No problems at all.

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Running Snow Leopard on Macbook - CS4, MSOffice, NX2, TechTool, & PathFinder all have worked without a glitch. No issues with anything - It just works and is much faster than 10.5.* on my iMac.
Mike
 
Quicken runs fine in Leapard under rosseta, but not in Snow Leopard. Of course I'm using an older version.
 
Tony 3d said:
Quicken runs fine in Leapard under rosseta, but not in Snow Leopard. Of course I'm using an older version.
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My daughter is using Quicken 2004 under SL with Rosetta, so I don't think you're correct in general.

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gollywop said:
Tony 3d said:
Quicken runs fine in Leapard under rosseta, but not in Snow Leopard. Of course I'm using an older version.
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My daughter is using Quicken 2004 under SL with Rosetta, so I don't think you're correct in general.

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I am running Quicken 05 under SL. It gave me a problem once, but finally settled down(w/ a new user interface) and now seems to be fine.
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When I converted from Windows, I knew I was dropping Quicken because of their "sunsetting" policy. For nearly 2 years I've been using MoneyDance with no issues.

Regarding the thread, converted to SL late because I wanted to give 3rd party developers time to update their applications. Have been pleased with the results and have no regrets in upgrading.
gollywop said:
Tony 3d said:
If your running quicken, say goodby to that.
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I understand that Quicken does run under Rosetta; have you also had troubles there?

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