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)
Well, I've been a major critic of Apple quality over the last year as a quick search on these forums will confirm so, in the spirit of fairness, I am obliged to report that Snow Leopard does seem to be a significant improvement.
My approximately two year old MacBook has been extremely unreliable since soon after I bought it. I've always suffered from the "elp!" syndrome and it couldn't hold a wireless network connection for more than ten minutes. Often it refused to shutdown and had to be switched off by holding the power button down.
A few weeks ago (before updating to Snow Leopard), I put in a second wireless access point on 802.11g and switched my Airport Extreme Base Station to high-band (5GHz). This seemed to solve my network drop problem - confirming my suspicion that it was due to RF congestion.
I upgraded to Snow Leopard about a week ago and haven't had an "elp!" since. Also, the machine now seems to shutdown reliably and reasonably quickly.
There does seem to be an issue with external USB drives that are formatted NTFS. I have a LaCie drive containing a lot of documents that were created on a PC - I was browsing through them on my MacBook a couple of days ago and it crashed with a kernel panic repeatedly after a moderate number of file accesses. It is very repeatable and the machine sent diagnostic dumps to Apple after each reboot. Hopefully this will be sufficient to allow them to produce a patch.
Following the appalling reliability of this machine for nearly two years, I shall need a bit more convincing before I give Apple a clean bill of health, but on the current showing I am quietly optimistic that they have fixed most of the problems.
Very good call. I would hold off this. This has been the harshest OS X update I've been through.
In fact if you're used to the Mac way of a document-centric workflow where you have no main default application for various file-types you may wanna stay away all together. It's a million changes like that, unadvertised and unexpected that's really getting me down.
Mark00 wrote:
In fact if you're used to the Mac way of a document-centric workflow where you have no main default application for various file-types you may wanna stay away all together.
Before you duck & run, would you mind explaining what you mean by this statement? AFAIK, the OS has always assigned a default app to open any document, but at least in recent versions a right or option click on a document icon always brings up the "Open With" contextual menu that lets you choose another app to open it. You can hold down the option key when you do this & "Open With" changes to "Always Open With." You can also just drop a document icon on an app icon if it can open it.
This has not changed in Snow Leopard so I'm mystified by what it is you think people should stay away from in it for a document oriented workflow.
I'm kind of interested in what an Application-oriented workflow is. I've always created documents, or data in all of my workflows. How would staring at an Application produce anything useful?
