Episode 0030 − 1 Week with Snow Leopard (Roundtable)

Peter's notes • Did three installs — on main MBP, white MacBook and on parents’ iMac • Main install was an Erase & Install, clean install, whatever you want to call it • Using SL as an excuse to do a brand new clean install, had previously just kept migrating • Absolutely incredible speed increase versus the clogged up Leopard • Wow • Did an upgrade on the white MacBook, worked very well, if a little slower than expected. • Again, speed increase and generally found it stable • Finally, upgraded parents’ iMac to Snow Leopard, simple in-place upgrade and seems to work well and be stable • Incompatibility with Parallels 3, but I haven’t needed it. Hugo's notes Quotes from Twitter about the early winter http://twitter.com/xxloverxx/status/3758253970 "It would be _very_ nice if  dropped all 32 bit support in 10.7 and required all apps to run on 64 bit…might make things a bit smoother" http://twitter.com/nevali/status/3758274686 “@xxloverxx I’d be amazed if they didn’t, tbh. not a huge number of macs which are 32-bit only.” http://twitter.com/MarkSheppard/status/3758385244 “@xxloverxx I think that is the whole point of 10.6.  It's a transitional release.  This is the bumpy part of the ride.  :-)” My first Snowy install was on my Macbook, for testing before I put it on my main machine (Unibody MBP).  That went well, so I did one last backup of the MBP using SuperDuper and another manual one, and installed on the MBP.  Of course, everything went wrong with that install.  The installer said  "10 minutes remaining", then suddenly jumped to th finish line.  I decided not to worry; I proceded to reboot.  Startup froze after loading Apple CPU Power Managment (checked in Verbose mode).  Booting in Safe mode didn't do anything either, so my only option was to reinstall. On the 2nd reinstall, everything went well, hadn't lost any data or preferences! Finder is slightly faster, not a huge improvement IMO, but every little bit counts iTunes hasn't had any change, so it's still that POC (piece of carbon) that it always was Quicktime X is sexy! Makes watching movies a joy now - Quicktime 7's bar always took up too much space for my liking, especially on my 2nd, 17"-but-very-low-res (1024x768), but now, it all works fine :) Aperture has gotten a bit slower since Snowy, not sure why Audio Hijack Pro doesn't work on Quicktime X (that or I need an update) Will is @beiju @marksheppard - Mark Sheppard Mo - @nevali http://xxloverxx.smugmug.com (photos - I recently hid all my existing albums and am working on creating portfolios, so keep checking back) http://xxxloverxxx.tumblr.com (Tumblr blog) http://twitter.com/xxloverxx (Twitter, obviously. >16,000 updates since last March when I joined!) Matt's Notes: Pre-ordered from Amazon, but shipping was too late, so cancelled order and ordered from Apple - Got late afternoon on Friday. Upon upgrading MBP had issues with partition map - had to nuke and pave to get it to work on the MBP. Believe this is from adding the 500gb hard drive using superduper! Had time machine backup, and selected file backup. Before nuke and pave - drug over home folder to external 1TB USB Drive Enable 64 bit mode - tried this didn't see significant difference (hold 6 & 4 key on boot) SL upgrade on white first gen macbook tokk about an hour - 70 minutes On MBP not really sure, walked away for a few hours - came back and it was all ready Jodi's Notes: Snow Leopard Installation went great on my Mac Mini 2.26 GHz, Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM. 45 Minutes standard install. HP printer driver for Officejet 5610 AIO no longer works. Had to purchase VueScan to access Epson Perfection 1260 Scanner. AppleWorks and Quicken 2007 will only work under Rosetta. I refuse to load Rosetta on Snow Leopard. Intuit needs to get off their butt and get some new code! They've had 2+ years. Snow Leopard fast! Load times faster. Graphics on my Mini and ViewSonic monitor are greatly enhanced. Colors brighter and crisper. Blacks blacker. Whites brighter. Any time I turn on my HP 5610 Snow Leopard automatically goes out and checks for the driver. HP has promised driver support. Come on HP! Gamma Ranges change from 1.6 -> 2.2, might want to change back if you do photo editing.