Mac Guys: Snow Leopard?

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My OSX 10.6 upgrade arrived yesterday from Amazon. I thought I'd go ahead and pre-order ($25), but I'm one of those slow adapters, so I probably won't install it for a month or two when it gets past 10.6.1.

Anybody living on the (b)leading edge, with impressions or reports on Snow Leopard yet?
 
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I installed it.. there's a few glitchy things here and there but nothing show stopping.
 
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I'm still runnin my Ole Trusty 2002 G4 17" Imac w/ 10.2.8 and the Hard Drive has been spinnin for 7 years now, so I know it's just a matter of time before I will be dragged (Kickin & Screamin) into the World of an Intel based Mac. but I'm sure in a few weeks I'll be able to adapt.....:rolleyes:
 
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I know a few people that have updated and read about a few more.
Most claim it was an easy install and several people claim they gained back 10-20gig of hard drive space.
 
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I have quite a few G4 macs so am unlikely to upgrade .Also a lot of progs I sort of acquired may not work on this upgrade so I'll leave it .Sounds great though .
 
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Pvee said:
Most claim it was an easy install and several people claim they gained back 10-20gig of hard drive space.
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Yeah, I got back about 10 gig on my first gen macbook pro. It also told me my battery needed servicing since its health is at 75% or something but at $100+ per battery, I'm sure I can make do since I haven't been traveling much.
 
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musicalmartin said:
I have quite a few G4 macs so am unlikely to upgrade .Also a lot of progs I sort of acquired may not work on this upgrade so I'll leave it .Sounds great though .
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Snow Leopard only works on Intel Macs, so you're pretty much not going to upgrade.

I've upgraded 4 Macs and haven't had any problems. Safari seems a bit faster than Leopard. Expose is a bit different. Other than that I haven't noticed much else different, just little GUI things.
 
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mellecaster said:
I'm still runnin my Ole Trusty 2002 G4 17" Imac w/ 10.2.8 and the Hard Drive has been spinnin for 7 years now, so I know it's just a matter of time before I will be dragged (Kickin & Screamin) into the World of an Intel based Mac. but I'm sure in a few weeks I'll be able to adapt.....:rolleyes:
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I just sold my '03 Dual G5 tower, and bought an Intel iMac (24" :D) with 10.5, sooner or later it will get Snow.

Right now I'm posting from my '03 PowerBook G4 12", everything rocks except the battery (I'm being too cheap to buy one because there's always a plug somewhere). It came with 10.2 but I've bumped it up to 10.5.8 and that's as far it can go now.

You really should up the OS on yours, 10.3, 10.4, and 10.5 are all nice improvements. And a bargain hunter could find some deals on those upgrades now.

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I know a few people that have updated and read about a few more.
Most claim it was an easy install and several people claim they gained back 10-20gig of hard drive space.
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That's about what I've read elsewhere so far. Snow is supposed to be half the previous OS size. Bummer I can't test it on my PowerBook.
 
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Haven't tried it yet.

I will soon.

Looking forward to it.

It helps that my entire life is Intel-Mac based.

If you know what I mean!

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Installed it smoothly. Takes about an hour or so. No glitches. I think it pays to stay up to date, less hassles with stuff not working down the road. Noticed some quicker loading times using the web also.
 
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i'll probably wait til .1, but looking forward to freeing up some space on my Mini's wretchedly stingy HD.
 
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I bought the family pack and installed it the other day, no issues. I run some old discontinued Adobe apps (LiveMotion and GoLive), other than losing the custom file icons, both still work w/o issue which was a big concern for me.

If you're still using powerpc apps remember to install Rosetta which is not installed by default. I got back about 8-9 gigs of disc space after the install and most everything seems snappier.
 
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Note that you can achieve much of the same disk saving on previous versions of Mac OS X just by deleting printer drivers. In Snow Leopard they don't install the gigabytes of printer drivers anymore. So just delete the unused printers in /System/Library/Printers or /Library/Printers.
 
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I installed it the day it came out, for reasons that make a long boring story. The downside is that it caused a crash (a "kernel panic") every time I tried to use Amp Farm and Gearbox music software from Line 6. I turns out that Line 6 doesn't support Snow Leopard. I finally found an unsupported driver that Line 6 provided but that they wouldn't guarantee against screwing up my new Mac. It seems to enable it to run the software on my machine. (A new Powerbook.)

So I'd check critical software that you need to ensure is supported by the new OS.
 
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davechen said:
Note that you can achieve much of the same disk saving on previous versions of Mac OS X just by deleting printer drivers. In Snow Leopard they don't install the gigabytes of printer drivers anymore. So just delete the unused printers in /System/Library/Printers or /Library/Printers.
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I do that on my desk Mac's, but I like to have them on the PowerBook because I actually use most of them when I'm out and about.

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So I'd check critical software that you need to ensure is supported by the new OS.
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I was checking this List last week.
 
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I'd like to upgrade, but I'm lazy and still running 10.4

Apparently that means I need to pay $100 more, but I have heard rumors that the $30 Snow Leopard installs from 10.4. Wonder if there is any truth to this. Think I will eventually upgrade my mom's iMac from 10.5 to Snow Leopard (when they get to 6.1), and then maybe give it a try on my mac. I don't want the whole iLife package that comes with the expensive version, have most of it already.

I wonder how long Apple is going keep this feline theme going?
 
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