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
I look forward to your views on this. I am not too sure if I see much difference in speed as of yet. But I have only installed it over Leopard. I have not done a FRESH install as the apple guy in meadowhall said it not needed.

let us know if you did a fresh install or a install on top of leopard
 
Anyone know if I can pick this up in a 24 hour supermarket? A yes or no will suffice. Shops closed by the time I went out.


rp2000
 
Right, I'm back in, which is to say that everything went smoothly enough that the machine still boots up!

No apparent problems. A few nice UI and visual tweaks are the most immediately obvious things. It asked me for Rosetta on account of my scanner software, so that's installed now. It also recovered about 10GB of space, which is very nice!

It managed to carry over some stupid monitor related bug, so maybe I'll have to flatten it and reinstall everything from scratch to get around that one...

I think 64bit is the next test.
 
rp2000 said:
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?
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My poor 2007 MacBook doesn't even support 64bit EFI so my Kernel will be stuck well and truly without any 64Bit extensions until I get a new Mac. :)

Still it is only that part (and the odd App) that is still in the land of 32bit.

So far (after I did a correct second install) the OS seems faster but I have come across a few bugs* so I suppose 10.6.1 won't be long in the coming - or at least a few patches.





* Nothing serious with the most annoying so far being the occasional real slow Trash empty and the odd icon hiccup.
 
kicks66 said:
Ive got a Macbook 5,1 and after restarting several times whilst holding 6 and 4, it wont boot into 64 bit, anyone got any answers why?
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Run this command from Terminal. If it reports as EFI32 then you are like me and don't have an EFI capable of supporting 64bit extensions. Don't worry though as the majority of the OS and Apps will still be running in 64bit.

ioreg -l -p IODeviceTree | grep firmware-abi
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LordSplodge said:
Run this command from Terminal. If it reports as EFI32 then you are like me and don't have an EFI capable of supporting 64bit extensions. Don't worry though as the majority of the OS and Apps will still be running in 64bit.
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Using that command brings back a line with EFI 64bit in it. Im not doing it for the speed increase, I just cant understand why it wont work. Nothing major about being able to do it.
 
LordSplodge said:
Run this command from Terminal. If it reports as EFI32 then you are like me and don't have an EFI capable of supporting 64bit extensions. Don't worry though as the majority of the OS and Apps will still be running in 64bit.
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Mine comes back as EIF32, so I guess I'm out of luck on that front.

Still, I guess 64bit doesn't make a huge amount of difference at this stage, so probably not worth worrying about.
 
Ooh, will have to boot up into Windows after this and update my Boot Camp tools - it looks like Snow Leopard includes support for reading HFS+ volumes from in Windows.
 
Rookies said:
Mine is EFI32 and I though all Core 2 Duo are 64bit what going on here?
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The EFI thing is just the BIOS equivalent. That is 32bit, so it can't load 32bit kernel extensions or something. Don't worry - OS X can run 64bit software on a 32bit kernel, so it's not a problem.
 
Just a heads up for anyone running the 64bit kernel and the Logitech Control Centre, even after a re-install of v3 no mice are detected in the pref pane so you cannot use any of the programmable buttons. Still works in 32bit though.
 
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