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
LordSplodge said:
Well I messed my first install up *I restored some stuff from Time machine and it hard reset and from then on was flaky as hell) so I'm starting a clean install - again!!!

How many times today?
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I have cancelled my time machine backup, and just going to backup my docs, movies and itunes folder, will give me a chance to try moving my iTunes library to sitting on my Time Capsule.

Does anyone know if Warcraft is ok with Snow Leopard? Also a pain having to DL the whole thing again **sigh**
 
NickK said:
Is that with holding down '6'+'4' on start up?

No postie van (usually around this time) so looks like next week for me.
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What is this about? Do you have to do this to enable full 64 bit or something? Can you set this to default? Holding down 2 keys sounds unnecessarily annoying (Although I seldom reboot and mainly just sleep/standby).

Backed up my MacBookPro, just debating whether to go get a copy now form shops o do it tomorrow, far fewer people in this thread have upgraded, so far, than I thought tbh.


rp2000
 
JUMPURS said:
I have cancelled my time machine backup, and just going to backup my docs, movies and itunes folder, will give me a chance to try moving my iTunes library to sitting on my Time Capsule.

Does anyone know if Warcraft is ok with Snow Leopard? Also a pain having to DL the whole thing again **sigh**
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Backup the Warcraft folder with your iTunes folder and documents. Then you won't have to download it again.
 
Got it, just tried installing.

It's just doing nothing. Took ages to begin the install and then just sat there doing nothing for ten minutes.

VERY slow, or borked?
 
"Ooohh sooowww wooooonnllllyyyyyy, oooohhh sooowww woooooonnnllly..." (team america) sniff..

Yup the '6''4' is to enable the 64 bit kernel and I would expect once set it would continue as 64 until told otherwise but I may be wrong.
 
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All working well and fast...very fast on late 08 macbook pro 2.4 with 4 Gig ram
 
rp2000 said:
What is this about? Do you have to do this to enable full 64 bit or something? Can you set this to default? Holding down 2 keys sounds unnecessarily annoying (Although I seldom reboot and mainly just sleep/standby).

Backed up my MacBookPro, just debating whether to go get a copy now form shops o do it tomorrow, far fewer people in this thread have upgraded, so far, than I thought tbh.


rp2000
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Yeah you can enable by default

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=4716

Dunno if it means things like iTunes DVD player etc wont work at all though.
 
rp2000 said:
Backed up my MacBookPro, just debating whether to go get a copy now form shops o do it tomorrow, far fewer people in this thread have upgraded, so far, than I thought tbh.


rp2000
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I think most people are still waiting for their copies to come through.

Mine still hasn't come. Hopefully come arrive tomorrow but i am highly doubtful. :(
 
just finished restoring all my stuff from time machine, started doing it over wireless but was gonna take 16 hours so abandoned it and plugged it in, only took 2 hours and now im on snow leopard, it seems a lot faster launching programmes
 
Logsi said:
I think most people are still waiting for their copies to come through.

Mine still hasn't come. Hopefully come arrive tomorrow but i am highly doubtful. :(
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Unlucky, But tbh, they announced the pre-order thing 3 days ago, I bet the only people who got it today paid extra for delivery. Plus a lot of people were saying delivery date showed as 2nd Sep, which is Tuesday.

Still got time to go to shops, I think, plus local Apple Store is open till 8.

JUMPURS said:
Yeah you can enable by default

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=4716

Dunno if it means things like iTunes DVD player etc wont work at all though.
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Even more confused now. I thought SL was fully 64 bit, hence only working on Intel Apple machines. Are you saying that only some apps/machines will even work with 64 bit mode?

According to Apple all system applications except DVD Player, Front Row, Grapher, and iTunes have been rewritten in 64-bit. All we need now is for third-party developers like Mozilla, Microsoft and Adobe (hint, hint!) to start releasing 64-bit apps :)
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Sounds like a cockup tbh, Why have they left out at least 3 fairly standard/important applications? I just assumed non 64 bit stuff will run in some sort of 32bit compatability mode. So to use 64 bit Safari, you forego using Front Row, or iTunes at the same time without a reboot?


rp2000
 
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