Snow Leopard not yet ready for use

Having installed SN all I can say is I'm glad I didn't have to pay the full price for it (I had a qualifying machine).

Very little visible difference from Leopard and the tweaks in performance and in the applications aren't really worth shouting from the roof-tops. All in all definitely not worth the money.

Personally I think it should have been free!!!.

tungtranminh wrote:
Because I know many people praise 10.6, faster,... so I bought it with 29USD. Now, I cannot try to >run 64bit to see it. What a waste!
No, My Mac supports it (MacBook is core 2 2Gz, 2 GB of memory,..). Why I say so because I run >Terminal and type: ioreg -l -p IODeviceTree | grep firmware-abi , then it shows "firmware-abi" = ><"> means my Mac supports 64bit Kernal and 64bit, right? Please help >me more. If my Mac cannot supports 64bit, then buying Snow Leopard does not make sense? So I >lost my 29USD?
TUNg

For God's sake, educate yourself before you post such rubbish. Sorry for the strong words, but YOU CAN SEE 64-bit in action in Finder, in Mail, in... just open up Activity Monitor and look in the column "Kind" - if it says Intel (64 bit), it's already running in 64bit. THERE IS NO NEED TO BOOT INTO 64bit KERNEL. Do you even know what that means?!

If only they had never posted 64bit anywhere, everyone complaining about not being able to boot into 64bit mode would just be raving about the incredible speed of Finder and Mail now instead of searching for ways to "experience 64bit by pressing a number combo".

dear oh dear...

EDIT: btw: it's $29 dollars.... I've happily spent that for the speed improvements in Mail alone. Or for record-fast sleep/re-boot times. Or for a better Expose. Oh wait, I got it all for $29. I am happy with that actually. And I installed it on five computers over the last few days. No issues.

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Schrodinger56 wrote:
Having installed SN all I can say is I'm glad I didn't have to pay the full price for it (I had a qualifying machine).

Very little visible difference from Leopard and the tweaks in performance and in the applications aren't really worth shouting from the roof-tops. All in all definitely not worth the money.

Personally I think it should have been free!!!.

Forgive me but I think your signature says you run a G5. Obviously there is not a big speed improvement going to happen... Wonder what better investments you've bought for $10 or $29 lately...

JonasLondon wrote:

Schrodinger56 wrote:
Having installed SN all I can say is I'm glad I didn't have to pay the full price for it (I had a qualifying machine).

Very little visible difference from Leopard and the tweaks in performance and in the applications aren't really worth shouting from the roof-tops. All in all definitely not worth the money.

Personally I think it should have been free!!!.

Forgive me but I think your signature says you run a G5. Obviously there is not a big speed improvement going to happen... Wonder what better investments you've bought for $10 or $29 lately...

Perhaps I should amend my signature to Intel 3.06Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo with 1TB hard drive 4GB 1067 MHz DDR3 Memory, this is my new machine which is the 'qualifying machine'. Ergo I stand by my original evaluation of SL.

I don't think Apple would have considered a G5 as a qualifying machine seeing as they've stopped making them 😉

i've been using the newest vmware fusion, as i stated before, and it does work on snow leopard but its slow. boot up in windows xp is fairly quick, but logging in is a different story. it takes longer to log into xp now. hope they fix it.