Poll: *** The Snow Leopard Thread - All Related Posts In Here ***

Are you going to upgrade to Snow Leopard?

  • Yes indeedy, that I am.

    Votes: 236 85.2%

  • No sir, not a chance.

    Votes: 41 14.8%
  • Total voters
    277
Even for £25 I'm not really seeing a compelling reason to upgrade at the moment... Maybe I'll give it a few months.
 
scott212 said:
Saved a few gig of disc space but not noticed anything else.
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Is it actually a good amount of space or is that down to changing from base 2 to base 10 numbering?

Bit strange to do that, now everyone with a 250GB HDD thinks they have 250GB of space instead of 232GB in every other OS so copying files form OS to OS they have different file sizes, strange!
 
I think I'll leave it for a while, too. I'm not ready to nuke my Leopard install (and God will smite me if I stop doing clean installs).
 
tsinc80697 said:
Is it actually a good amount of space or is that down to changing from base 2 to base 10 numbering?
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I find this Snow Leopard change half-assed, because they still use "GB" elsewhere to refer to base 2 quantities (e.g. 4GB RAM).

I wish the whole industry would just start using "GiB, MiB, .." for base 2 quantities. Who cares if it "looks weird" - at least it's not ambiguous.
 
Did a clean install Saturday.

My only issue was iphoto was missing.
I had to copy from Time Machine along with my backed up photos. Its now all back to normal.

It seems a little quicker but could well be from the clean install. I have noticed a nice difference from the quicker un-wake feature.

First time I've used time machine to restore programs and personal data. Its very powerful and worked perfectly.
 
markyb said:
My only issue was iphoto was missing.
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That's the same with Leopard retail discs too. iPhoto is part of iLife which is partially bundled with new machines but not retail operating system upgrades.

I'm still using iPhoto 6 from my original MBP Tiger disc set! If it's not broke...
 
I have two issues;
first: good old Office 2008 :rolleyes: seems to load Word, etc slower than before.

second: SL doesn't have Apple Loops which is a shame as I use them in Logic. I'm sure my Time Machine has backed them up but I'd appreciate a walkthrough on how to restore them to the correct location from someone if possible.

Many Thanks,

fanger
 
fanger said:
I have two issues;
first: good old Office 2008 :rolleyes: seems to load Word, etc slower than before.

second: SL doesn't have Apple Loops which is a shame as I use them in Logic. I'm sure my Time Machine has backed them up but I'd appreciate a walkthrough on how to restore them to the correct location from someone if possible.
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Apple Loops - not part of the old Leopard retail OS build.
 
Did they not come packaged with Garageband?

Or maybe Logic has installed them before but failed under SL?
 
It says in System Profiler

64-bit Kernel and Extensions: Yes
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So I take it the 64-bit thing is up and working on my MBP. The thing is, what are the actual advantages? It doesn't seem quicker, in fact it took about three times as long to boot.
 
It takes longer on the first boot into 64-bit, that's what I found anyway, just got it installed here. Did an upgrade, zero problems so far. Have to wait for logitech to update their LCC before I can run the 64-bit kernel full time though.
 
There's still a performance benefit to be had from it during my limited testing. Plus, with the exception of my mouse, I've got no other compatibility issues so why not. :)
 
Oh yes. Awesomeness is in the house.

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With that box ticked in the Energy Saver preferences, my Mac's IP is farmed out to the Airport Extreme when it goes to sleep. When my AppleTV looks for my iTunes library, the Airport wakes up the Mac and gives it it's IP back and my AppleTV can see the entire library. An hour after anyone stops watching anything, it goes back to sleep.
 
I bought a MBP about 3 weeks ago and one of my mates said if you bought any Mac in the last few months you could get the Snow Leopard upgrade for free?

Is there any truth in this or will I need to buy it?
 
BFCTom said:
I bought a MBP about 3 weeks ago and one of my mates said if you bought any Mac in the last few months you could get the Snow Leopard upgrade for free?

Is there any truth in this or will I need to buy it?
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doubt it but you can get it for £7.95
 
Caged said:
Wake on LAN isn't a new feature :confused:
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Correct but it wasn't implemented in that way before. The AppleTV couldn't wake up a Mac. This way there's no 'magic' packet needed to wake the system, it's all handled through the Airport.
 
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