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
@von

I think the app incompatibility is really the problem of the app vendor. They've had long enough todo something about it. However as iStat is free then they aren't likely to fork out £400 for a developer account to fix the compatibility issues before public release day.
It's one of my sore points that people believe that all software should be free and then whinge when they are without it whilst the update is being written. This is not specifically at you von, just in general.
 
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Don't think anyone's mentioned this before, but iStat isn't working :(

VDMX b7.2.8 also refuses to open, although apparently it works with b7.4, which I'm downloading at the moment.

System seems a little quicker, but I'm tempted to format and do a fresh install, doesn't feel *drastically* faster, but perhaps it'll just get better over time with OpenCL / GCD stuff developing
 
Hate said:
Is it just my eyes playing tricks on me but my display appears a lot more 'vibrant' than it did with Leopard.
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Running a late 08 Unibody here and the colour profile is a much improved version to the one it was shipped with. The gamma increase only affects photos, video, etc but the display has improved somewhat.

Tell you what though; it's not booting any quicker than 10.5.8 if anything a little slower.

Istat Pro was one of the first things I threw at SL and it's working just fine.
 
Can anyone tell me if I can get Snow Leopard for the £7.95 Up-to-date price in a Apple Store (Retail)? Or is that via online application only?
 
OK Guys, whats going on with me?

I bought SL on Friday from the Manchester Apple Store, and now it's Sunday and I still haven't installed? :eek:


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I **MUST** INSTALL TODAY.......:o
 
Xenoxide said:
I completely disagree with all of this.

Previously I hated QuickTime 7. It was ugly, it was slow, and generally unusable. I used VLC for all my media playback. And I don't know what you're talking about with regards to DivX/XviD support...I always had to install DivX. It never worked out of the box.

Since Snow Leopard though I've moved back to QuickTime as I feel QuickTime X is light years ahead. It's fast, snappy, with a really nice UI and control interfact, and when you move the mouse away it gets rid of everything, including the border. It's brilliant. What with Flip4Mac, Perian, and DivX installed it supports all the media files I need.

As for "professional use", I can't speak for that, but I have never seen QuickTime as a professional tool. When Apple made it that you had to pay for a "Pro" upgrade I thought it was stupid, especially when some of the "Pro" features included Full-Screen, something that every other media player has as standard.

Yup. QuickTime X is now my new favourite player.
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I disagree too. I use Quicktime as general default playback (with Flip4Mac etc,) and I like the fact it's been streamlined, simplified UI.
 
fanger said:
I disagree too. I use Quicktime as general default playback (with Flip4Mac etc,) and I like the fact it's been streamlined, simplified UI.
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I half agree. The front end is better for the end user who plays videos and does the odd edit.

It is far worse for those who have a QT7 Pro license and used the Pro features.

I suppose Apple will add them back to QTX but there are a few miffed QT7 users out there. Not a good move by Apple towards its paying customers.
 
LordSplodge said:
It is far worse for those who have a QT7 Pro license and used the Pro features.

I suppose Apple will add them back to QTX but there are a few miffed QT7 users out there. Not a good move by Apple towards its paying customers.
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I guess that's why QuickTime 7 is still on the Snow Leopard disc.
 
I suppose they've gone for the simplicity for ease of playback and the assumption that extra features are available in the rather overpriced FC for those who want extended features.
 
Noticed an improvement in the stability of the Spotlight drop down. Used to really hack me off the way it vanished if you slightly moused out of it.
 
oldbag said:
Although my external USB Time Machine Disk seems to be suddenly knackered. It's asking me to repair the disk. Nice.
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Strange. Mine got the idea after a couple of goes and all Backups going back weeks appearing as they should. Quite impressed with that. Maybe let it do a full backup and see if that pulls it together.
 
Anyone havings "Spaces" problems? Used to have it launch with mouse button 5, tried all my mouse buttons and none will now launch it, ive got to use an F key. :(
Expose and Dashboard will happily launch using any mouse buttons as before. :confused:

Im using a MS intellimouse Explorer 3A, if that could be part of the reason.
 
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Darryn said:
Anyone havings "Spaces" problems? Used to have it launch with mouse button 5, tried all my mouse buttons and none will now launch it, ive got to use an F key. :(
Expose and Dashboard will happily launch using any mouse buttons as before. :confused:

Im using a MS intellimouse Explorer 3A, if that could be part of the reason.
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Hmm, don't know about using Mouse 5, but I have mine set up like this (IntelliMouse Explorer 3 with IntelliPoint 7 drivers)

Mouse 4 - Expose (Show desktop)
Mouse 5 - Expose (All Windows)
Mouse Wheel Button - Controlled by Mac OS

And then in the Spaces preferences I have it set to use the Middle Mouse button.

Seems to work fine with Snow Leopard.
 
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