Reading all the reports about SL here on this forum and on other forums I get the idea that most people are having all sorts of problems with it. Overheating CPU's and all other kinds of weird behaviour. I received my SL in the the mail today but have decided to wait with the installation until there's a stable upgrade.
I'd rather keep on running nice and trouble free on Leopard 10.5.8
Macmini 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 2GB Ram,
Mac OS X (10.5.8)
You could have saved yourself a trip to fedex had you noted that apple offered you an online method for printing out a signature sheet to leave for the fedex guy. I did that and the disk was waiting when I got home.
Maybe good to know for the next time.
I disagree. I've had one minor issue with connecting to the internet which was easily fixed. All apps run as usual with no issues at all. Boot up is significantly faster. I really mean significantly faster. I was sat here going "wow, that was fast!".
MacPro, install OK, but Address Book now had quadruple entries for most cards. Had to delete about 1400 by hand.
MacBook Pro, disaster. Three regular install attempts. Machine was like molasses. An erase (with Disk Utility) and clean install from 10.6 disk. On latter, had major problems importing data etc from back-up (the permissions were blocking me from a lot of stuff and I would have had to change hundreds of individual files—I am the Administrator, but couldn't do a group change). So back to 10.5.8 from my bootable back-up drive (did it once already, and all was OK, but then tried once again to install 10.6 and yet another disaster). Just waiting for the recovery from the bootable back-up drive.
iMac. 10.6 installed OK but no printing on Epson printer, and simply could not connect to internet. Wiped drive clean and reinstalled old system from bootable back-up and all is running perfectly again.
This 10.6 install is the worst I've seen since I started using a Mac in 1984. It is worse than the original Aperture, for which Apple finally gave a sizeable reimbursement.
It is a huge disappointment and leaves me with some very big questions about the performance of the Apple system software people. We need a very big fix here.
Not a very nice thing to say devlin. Especially after the good natured and informative contact we have already had on this forum recently since I joined up here as a relatively new Mac user. A bit disappointed with your attitude to say the least.
Not a very nice thing to say Devlin. Especially after the good natured and informative contact we have already had on this forum recently since I joined up here as a relatively new Mac user. A bit disappointed with your attitude to say the least.
I'm sorry that some are having problems. It's frustration with that happens.
I installed SL on three machines. MBP and 2 iMacs and it installed flawlessly! 1Password graciously offered an update to their beta 1Password 3 to keep things working and that has been flawless, as well.
No disaster here! I created a separate partition for 10.6 on my MacBook, and all seems fine. So far, the only app that is broken is my Bento 1.0V2. Other-than-that, all my apps seem to work just fine. If this continues to be as positive an experience as it has been so far, I'll just purge my 10.5.8 partition soon. BTW, my MacBook, especially Safari, is noticeably faster in 10.6.
The solution to your dilemma is quite simple. Make a fully functional backup of your startup disk (which is a wise idea anyway), upgrade and check things out for yourself. If the result is not good, revert to the backup.
I have also suffered with problems trying to install.
My MBP ( earlier model 2007/8 ) got so hot it just kept shutting down. In the end i tried blowing cold air over it to get the install done but it got to 5 mins remaining and then i got the error message " Installer encountered an error that caused installation to fail.....contact software supplier for assistance" Yeah right... have you tried getting through to Apple at the minute?????
Up to now i have been extremely happy with my Mac and Apple in general but this really is not acceptable for £179 (just for an upgrade). It definately seems Apple has screwed the pooch on this release and there seems to be an awful lot of unhappy users about.....we can't all be unlucky???
My purchase will be getting returned on Monday for a refund as it is not fit for purpose.
Come on Apple, sort your stuff out or people will get you confused with that other lot!!!!!
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Did a clean/fresh install. Erase, partition and install. Took about 30 mins. Software update one item ARD. Repaired permissions, only item is SUID relating to ARD. Printed to my USB HP 1022 right out of the box. Imported Address Book, iCal, bookmarks. Installed iWork and iLife 09. One third party app checkbook. Noticeably faster than 10.5.8. Some slight changes in the interface and eye candy I personally do not care for, but it JUST WORKS. Best $$ I have spent. Oh, iTouch, shuffle, and iPhone all sync just fine first try. My suggestion is back up data and go for it. The board here is good for you to see what problems others may be having and to give you a feel for what software may not work and what hardware may not be happy. You will very rarely see the success stories.
Not sure if TD is replying to me or earlier post but i would be happy for any assistance in installing this update!!
I do not consider myself a techie but have the following points / questions ( which may or may not be contributing to my installation problem)
I have a MBP ( 2.16ghz intel core duo 2gb ram 500gb hdd ( installed after warantee expired )
I have only just found out that the installed hdd is not GUID which stopped the original install of SL
I thought i would be able to connect a 500gb USB drive and install on that, transfer/migrate settings and programs across and replace the fitted hdd with the new one.
I tried 4 time installing the SL on the external hdd but the MBP got so hot it turned off 3 times around the 20 minute remaining time.
on the 4th time i blew a fan across the laptop and the installation got to 5 minutes remaining and then an error message saying installer had encountered and error that cause installer to fail and to contact Apple.
What i would eventually like to achieve is install the update, transfer/migrate settings & Programs and have boot camp running for several small programs that dont behave under parrallels or fusion.
