Snow Leopard 10.6
Mac OS X version 10.6 Snow Leopard
Mac OS X version 10.6 Snow Leopard
Apple
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Faster, Upgrade Install Worked Perfectly
By R. Auger
For 29 bucks, this is where OS’s need to start going. Make it better, don’t keep reinventing a wheel with more problems. Just keep polishes, slimming, and make it more efficient, and charge us a small fee for that polishing.
I took a risk and installed Snow Leopard 10.6, rather than a clean wipe, since I have so many plugins for Aperture and Photoshop, I didn’t want to spend my whole weekend reinstalling everything. I have 40gb of software, from Adobe CS3 to Logic Studio, to VMWare with Windows XP, Vista, and Ubuntu Linux. All my advanced stuff still works great and better, and the computer actually runs faster than before. Snow Leopard 10.6 just works great, and I could go on with life and keep using the computer.
I have been using Mac since the later days of Tiger 10.4, and have a unibody 15.3 Macbook Pro. Still use XP for Quickbooks Pro.
A SERIOUSLY GOOD TIP FOR MAC PEOPLE!!! I ran iDefrag from an external disk, I seriously recommend you have this program if you don’t already. If you install Snow Leopard 10.6, you must defrag, as your system files will be sprayed everywhere. I also use iPartition, to keep my files and OS on separate partions, along with a third partition for Bootcamp. This keeps some blank space between OS X with Apps and your files, making everything run smooth with temp files and new software installs.
Thanks to Snow Leopard 10.6, Bootup time and software load time have decreased, and everything feels snappier. Mail finally has all of the bugs out and doesn’t crash if you have it overloaded with folders and mail like me. I hooked up GoDaddy Exchange Server and love it!!! No longer have to use Entourage, thank God.
Docks pops up must faster and is more customizable. Spotlight and finder always load quickly with Snow Leopard 10.6, even with many programs open.
A no brainer to me.
Changes are Subtle… For Now…
By Lon J. Seidman
Having spent the better part of today with Apple’s latest operating system upgrade I can say that the transition to Snow Leopard 10.6 was a much smoother process than the jump from Tiger to Leopard. Today’s upgrade installation took a little less than an hour on my 2009 Macbook Pro.
The result? Subtle changes that definitely don’t demand you do this upgrade immediately. Still, many little annoyances are fixed, and performance has been tuned to the point that installation of Snow Leopard 10.6 results in a noticeably ‘snappier’ operating system. So far I’ve encountered none of the catastrophic upgrade gotchyas I experienced when upgrading from Tiger to Leopard two years ago.
It’s important to note that there really aren’t any major user-facing upgrades with Snow Leopard 10.6. When your system returns to your control after the upgrade process it will largely look the same — just polished. You will notice as you begin navigating through your newly refreshed system that things happen faster. Less beachballs, fewer pauses, and overall a much more pleasant user experience even with software written for earlier versions of the operating system (just make sure those apps are on the Snow Leopard compatibility list). The performance improvements in Snow Leopard 10.6 are noticeable. Very noticeable at times.
The real power of this release is going to come later on this year and next as developers begin working with the very important under-the-hood changes that Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 brings to the Mac platform.
As we saw with Leopard it will take time for the ‘snow leopard only’ apps to start appearing. Those who use their Macs to bill by the hour may want to wait until their most important app becomes a Snow Leopard 10.6 only version before upgrading. The snappier feel is great, but the real power of Snow Leopard 10.6 is yet to come — and waiting a bit will undoubtedly fix bugs that will be found by us early adopters in the coming weeks. There are simply no ‘must-have’ user facing features that have been the hallmark of previous OS X releases. You can nitpick me on the details but let’s face it – your system will be pretty much the same after this installs itself over 10.5.
My Tiger just shed it’s old stripes for new spots…
By James G.
My Tiger turned into a Leopard..A Snow Leopard!
This is the best $25 I ever spent on upgrading my 2yr+ old MA701LL/A MacBook 10.4.11 Tiger (next to the 4GB memory upgrade)! The “transformation” into a fast pouncing Snow Leopard 10.6 gave me an additional 11GB space on my hard drive..not to mention the tremendous jump in processing speed of various apps I have over the old Tiger OS!
Btw, for the record Microsoft Office Mac 2004 works on Snow Leopard 10.6 (with Rosetta)…
Also, VM Fusion works like a charm!
I even started out from a retail pack VM Fusion 1.1 and updated it to 2.0.5 immediately prior to the Snow Leopard 10.6 install. Remember, in order to run VM Fusion seamlessly…it is imperative that you update to Snow Leopard compatible Ver. 2.0.5
Want to have a headache-free Snow Leopard 10.6 install (like I did)?!
FIRST RULE OF THUMB: UPDATE ALL your apps/programs FIRST, before a Snow Leopard 10.6 upgrade!!
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