Snow Leopard

clv101 · 19 Jan 2011 at 20:52

I never did bother upgrading to Snow Leopard, just seen that discs are pretty cheap on ebay, is it worth it from Leopard? What are the advantages?

I'm running a 2.0 C2D Macbook (first C2D version) with 2GB and a 320GB 7200rpm drive.

artaxerxes · 19 Jan 2011 at 21:26

Might as well wait for Lion at this point. You miss the excitement of app store but most of the other stuff is behind the scenes.

Fr0dders · 19 Jan 2011 at 21:28

if you don't upgrade to snow leopard i wouldnt be surprised if you are then unable to upgrade the lion and have to buy the Mac Box Set for £100 +

artaxerxes · 19 Jan 2011 at 21:37

Snow Leopard was a unique upgrade only methinks. Lion likely be a full fanfare release. Even if not there has been to date no upgrade checking even on Snow Leapard.

Fr0dders · 19 Jan 2011 at 22:30

yes but you wouldnt technically be licensed

and you wouldnt want that now would you

Blackhawk47 · 19 Jan 2011 at 23:08

clv101 said:
I never did bother upgrading to Snow Leopard, just seen that discs are pretty cheap on ebay, is it worth it from Leopard? What are the advantages?

I'm running a 2.0 C2D Macbook (first C2D version) with 2GB and a 320GB 7200rpm drive.

It's a must, I have a similar spec Macbook Unibody (first aluminium model) but with a 160gb (?) drive...I had just got it and it came with leopard and then about two weeks later snow leopard came out. Popped to the shops, £25 in hand, difference is amazing...multi tasking felt so much better.

clv101 · 20 Jan 2011 at 10:58

Okay, I'll do it. What are the pros and cons of upgrading against clean install. For Windows I'd only ever consider a clean install, but for OS X is an upgrade a reasonable thing to do? Will it delete all the unneeded Leopard code and free up HHD space?

NickK · 20 Jan 2011 at 11:07

I can't remember now but I think I just used time machine to back up my leopard install and then installed snow leopard and used the install with time machine option in the installer (once rebooted).. then just left it to it.

So long ago I can't remember lol.

Fr0dders · 20 Jan 2011 at 11:54

clv101 said:
Okay, I'll do it. What are the pros and cons of upgrading against clean install. For Windows I'd only ever consider a clean install, but for OS X is an upgrade a reasonable thing to do? Will it delete all the unneeded Leopard code and free up HHD space?

forget all you think about the word "upgrade" that you remember from the days of how windows upgraded an OS.

its not

Its merely a licensing term.

An upgrade on OSX is a completely different kettle of fish and is fine.

When i upgraded to Snow Leopard it actually feed up about 5gb in space ! never saw a windows upgrade do that lol.

Feek · 20 Jan 2011 at 12:55

'upgrading' Leopard to Snow Leopard effectively does an archive and restore anyway. Just do it.

artaxerxes · 20 Jan 2011 at 13:33

Yeah - just accept the default install. I forgot about the slimming effects of Snow Leapord - but I had already done most of what it does with XSlimmer. No printer drivers, alternate languages gone, thin binaries.

Snow Leopard also reports disk sizes in GiB rather than GB - so your disk look bigger too!

Blackhawk47 · 20 Jan 2011 at 21:34

Feek said:
'upgrading' Leopard to Snow Leopard effectively does an archive and restore anyway. Just do it.

Completely true.

So glad I switched to Mac for my personal computer...it's just so painless to do upgrades. At the time I was thinking about what it might do and will I have to reinstall everything even though I only had a hand full of downloaded apps.