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titchard · 7 Sep 2009 at 18:10

I have had it installed for about 2-3 weeks now, it's OK nothing really to write home about at this stage though.

So far, I have noticed when loading programs and waking out of sleep it is slower and also the HDD is really going for it more so than it did under leopard, and is so crazy sometimes I do stop doing stuff because it makes me think "What the HELL is going on in there!?"

Wondering what 10.6.1 will bring, maybe it'll fix my issues we'll see.

Rich

Blackhawk47 · 7 Sep 2009 at 18:24

I haven't got the upgrade yet. Is it worth it?

Not really got around to installing loads of Apps on my Macbook so I guess it would be better to do it sooner rather than later.

RandomTom · 7 Sep 2009 at 18:39

I'm still on Tiger here, and won't be upgrading to Snow Leapord until I sell my '07 macbook for an iMac in March-April time/the next update, which ever comes first.

The itch has already started

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Logsi · 7 Sep 2009 at 18:50

O gawd, just go buy the £25 "upgrade" and put it on your mac now!

Get with the times man!

steveo · 7 Sep 2009 at 18:55

Logsi said:
O gawd, just go buy the £25 "upgrade" and put it on your mac now!

Get with the times man!

agreed its £25 man, Blackhawk47 you have most likely spent more on beer on a night out (if your of age i dont no) just give in to the pressure and order it

geekyEd · 7 Sep 2009 at 19:06

sorry if its been mentioned already but it is standard that my HDD (ssd actually) doesnt show on the desktop now?

Feek · 7 Sep 2009 at 19:16

I think that was the case on my new build. Finder/Preferences/General and there are boxes to tick depending on what you want showing on the desktop.

geekyEd · 7 Sep 2009 at 19:21

Yer thought there would be somewhere.

wow this ssd is insanely amazing (Intel 160GB G2) , also SL isnt so shabby, I like the graphical changes

Rooky007 · 7 Sep 2009 at 19:35

I am thinking of buying a new MBP with SSD do the SSD really make a big different in speed then

geekyEd · 7 Sep 2009 at 19:48

From what Im experiencing at the moment its incredible, Im just not used to things launching so quickly and generally being so responsive.

Its just a shame my internet is still stuck on 2mb seems to be the only part of the experience thats lacking for me. Hurry up Virgin Media!!!!!

Rooky007 · 7 Sep 2009 at 19:50

Which MBP did you get?

geekyEd · 7 Sep 2009 at 19:54

its an early 2009 with the 9600M GT, 2.4GHz dual core

anyways we need to stop the trashing of this thread.

Rooky007 · 7 Sep 2009 at 19:57

Back on thread topic.... Had anyone here found that SL use more battery power? I am finding my MBP to be going flat more quicker... Dunno if it to do with SL or ????

But apart from this I LOVE SL I have found it more quicker and more responsive on my 2006 MBP in all honesty it had made a different.

NickK · 7 Sep 2009 at 21:16

Yup before, with 10.5.8, I'd get 5h20m just doing word processing with the WiFi/BT disabled and the screen brightness turned down. Compared with SL I get 4h30ish but I've not re-calibrated the battery since installing.

This is with a month old battery (27 cycles).

NickK · 7 Sep 2009 at 21:21

Rookies said:
I am thinking of buying a new MBP with SSD do the SSD really make a big different in speed then

Well I've been using an OCZ Vertex 120GB since they came out in my old MBP3,1. You think SL is quick on your HD machines (and mine has just SATA 1.5Gb/sec)

There's a definite speed increase between leopard and SL with an SSD too but I'm used to instantaneous response now. It was quite funny watching a mate's ebook thing running windows (Vista I assume but could be 7 as he works for MS). The speed difference is obscene.

Code:

Results	159.59	
	System Info		
		Xbench Version		1.3
		System Version		10.6 (10A432)
		Physical RAM		4096 MB
		Model		MacBookPro3,1
		Drive Type		OCZ-VERTEX 1275
	CPU Test	167.36	
		GCD Loop	280.98	14.81 Mops/sec
		Floating Point Basic	135.22	3.21 Gflop/sec
		vecLib FFT	108.76	3.59 Gflop/sec
		Floating Point Library	266.49	46.40 Mops/sec
	Thread Test	216.73	
		Computation	215.66	4.37 Mops/sec, 4 threads
		Lock Contention	217.81	9.37 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
	Memory Test	164.36	
		System	178.62	
			Allocate	382.79	1.41 Malloc/sec
			Fill	137.25	6673.60 MB/sec
			Copy	144.98	2994.51 MB/sec
		Stream	152.22	
			Copy	144.12	2976.79 MB/sec
			Scale	143.07	2955.88 MB/sec
			Add	162.17	3454.47 MB/sec
			Triad	161.70	3459.22 MB/sec
	Quartz Graphics Test	182.06	
		Line	158.93	10.58 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
		Rectangle	206.51	61.65 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
		Circle	175.23	14.28 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
		Bezier	182.24	4.60 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
		Text	194.75	12.18 Kchars/sec
	OpenGL Graphics Test	83.12	
		Spinning Squares	83.12	105.44 frames/sec
	User Interface Test	258.45	
		Elements	258.45	1.19 Krefresh/sec
	Disk Test	172.50	
		Sequential	139.29	
			Uncached Write	193.89	119.05 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Write	198.06	112.06 MB/sec [256K blocks]
			Uncached Read	69.73	20.41 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Read	239.81	120.52 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		Random	226.48	
			Uncached Write	80.32	8.50 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Write	337.29	107.98 MB/sec [256K blocks]
			Uncached Read	1799.96	12.76 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Read	591.24	109.71 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Just a xbench of the machine as it is with apps loaded at the moment. Only been running a day though.

Code:

21:24  up 1 day,  6:59, 2 users, load averages: 0.33 0.23 0.20

Raider · 8 Sep 2009 at 15:54

Ok my copy of Snow Leopard has just arrived. Quick couple of questions:

1) I was hoping to just upgrade, will bootcamp, parallels and all my other apps be absolutely fine after the upgrade? Do I really have to do nothing?

2) I've just bought a 1Tb hard drive for Time Machine purposes too, and made my first backup. Anything special I need to do once I've switched to Snow Leopard? I guess it'll make me do another big backup?

NickK · 8 Sep 2009 at 16:17

Raider said:
2) I've just bought a 1Tb hard drive for Time Machine purposes too, and made my first backup. Anything special I need to do once I've switched to Snow Leopard? I guess it'll make me do another big backup?

It'll just make an incremental backup, it's a little larger but there's no fuss about it.

Parallels 4.0 works with SL 32bit kernel. There's no impact on the guest operating system (regardless of 32 or 64 bit).

grahamjenks · 8 Sep 2009 at 18:14

Since upgrading to SL - itunes now seems to freeze up when I connect my iphone. As soon as I remove my iphone, itunes starts responding again. Very frustrating as I can't now move anything off or onto my iphone.

Anyone got any suggestions?

When I open iphoto with my iphone plugged in, that seems to pick the photos up on it without any problem.

slickback · 8 Sep 2009 at 19:02

Any update as to when 10.6.1 will be released?

FreeStream · 8 Sep 2009 at 19:36

slickback said:
Any update as to when 10.6.1 will be released?

Next two weeks i'd imagine.

Only bug so far is "Checking Password" takes a while sometimes when resuming from sleep on my MBP.

Otherwise flawless.

Oh and the 6 month old Mac Pro 4870 bug... but i'll fix that when I buy a Hazro.

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Are you going to upgrade to Snow Leopard?

Yes indeedy, that I am.

No sir, not a chance.

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