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Installed and running quite fast on my Early 2008 MBP. Clean install took about 30 mins and then I just copied back my Music, Pictures, Documents folders from Time Machine and also a few Applications.
Booted in 64 bit kernel and it seems the same, although I won't be able to boot in this permanently as Vmware 2.05 does not support it
Expose showing minimized windows is really useful, as is the "Minimize windows into Application icon".
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Booted in 64 bit kernel and it seems the same, although I won't be able to boot in this permanently as Vmware 2.05 does not support it
Expose showing minimized windows is really useful, as is the "Minimize windows into Application icon".
rp2000
expose works on my logitech MX Revolution the thumb button on the side, didnt install any logitech software for it to work so am not sure
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Nope. I don't think they have held back but are rather paving the way for something new. Thus they are giving developers time to program Apps with Grand Central and OpenCL before *boom* OS X 10.7 hits with some funky new ****!
I meant in feature/mind set rather than because it is broken. Does that make more sense?
expose works on my logitech MX Revolution the thumb button on the side, didnt install any logitech software for it to work so am not sure
Only thing that works is the dashboard on LCC for me.
I'll think about using firefox on my mac when they add 3 finger navigation.
I just am so used to the 3 fingered swipe to go back a page when browsing, i find it really annoying when it's not there.
Default Flash Player plugin in 10.6 shows as out of date on : http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/
Just off to download the latest (10.0.32.18).
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Just off to download the latest (10.0.32.18).
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Found a temporary problem to get my buttons working, albeit the wrong buttons, but it shall do for the time being!
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=772091
Haven't noticed any difference in all honesty. Haven't booted up in 64bit yet, don't really see the point if my programs don't support it. I can't believe iTunes is still 32bit...iTunes seriously needs to be updated to cocoa...
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=772091
Haven't noticed any difference in all honesty. Haven't booted up in 64bit yet, don't really see the point if my programs don't support it. I can't believe iTunes is still 32bit...iTunes seriously needs to be updated to cocoa...
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Tried booting into the 64-bit kernel, and while most things work, two crucial things don't work for me:
1. NTFS-3G. Gotta have read/write access to NTFS drives. No deal.
2. Microsoft IntelliPoint drivers. The only thing that makes Mac OS remotely usable. Without it I have to put up with that STUPID mouse acceleration curve, and that's unacceptable.
So for the time being, 32-bit kernel for me.
1. NTFS-3G. Gotta have read/write access to NTFS drives. No deal.
2. Microsoft IntelliPoint drivers. The only thing that makes Mac OS remotely usable. Without it I have to put up with that STUPID mouse acceleration curve, and that's unacceptable.
So for the time being, 32-bit kernel for me.
Everyone is saying they installed a clean install in 30 minutes. This is just not possible.
If you have done a proper clean install, like you should have done, in my opinion, you would have booted off the disc at startup holding the "c" key. Then once OS X has booted off the disc, go to utilities and disk utility. Now you're in disk utility you need to click your hard disk, then erase tab and go to security options and make sure it's on at least a zero out, 7 time zero out if you have time.
If you don't do the above then you are not installing on a so called "clean" disk. I have always done this as when i didn't one time my mac got very slow having to write to a disk that hadn't been zero'd out. It took me about an hour to 1 pass zero out my 320GB 7200RPM disk and then another 30 minutes to install snow leopard.
If you have done a proper clean install, like you should have done, in my opinion, you would have booted off the disc at startup holding the "c" key. Then once OS X has booted off the disc, go to utilities and disk utility. Now you're in disk utility you need to click your hard disk, then erase tab and go to security options and make sure it's on at least a zero out, 7 time zero out if you have time.
If you don't do the above then you are not installing on a so called "clean" disk. I have always done this as when i didn't one time my mac got very slow having to write to a disk that hadn't been zero'd out. It took me about an hour to 1 pass zero out my 320GB 7200RPM disk and then another 30 minutes to install snow leopard.
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3-finger swipe worked "out of the box" for me with Firefox.
I agree with the 30 minute install - it took me about an hour from start to finish - but you don't need to zero a disk, never mind 7 times, to perfom a "clean" install. If you lay down a new filesystem on the drive then it doesn't matter what the state the drive is in so long as it's physically sound.
I have always found at least do one zero out just so OS X runs at it's fastest. I always seemed to get more errors over time if i didn't.
Tried booting into the 64-bit kernel, and while most things work, two crucial things don't work for me:
1. NTFS-3G. Gotta have read/write access to NTFS drives. No deal.
2. Microsoft IntelliPoint drivers. The only thing that makes Mac OS remotely usable. Without it I have to put up with that STUPID mouse acceleration curve, and that's unacceptable.
So for the time being, 32-bit kernel for me.
Do you need a Microsoft mouse for those drivers to change the acceleration curve?
