Snow Leopard Thread

[bitWISE]

Just finished my upgrade. So far my overall system doesn't really feel faster at all. After all the reviews I was expecting night & day difference. Finder doesn't seem any different or faster.

Spaces and Expose are noticeably faster.
The display-all-apps mode of Expose has improved nicely.
Quicktime is the same as the version running on the iphone.
Safari is mind blowingly fast.

So far all my apps work (some of my geektools scripts aren't working tho) just fine but I had to install a patch to the iphone SDK which required a restart.

Apparently not all systems load into 64bit mode by default. You can get the command to check what you're running, and the how-to make it use 64 here: http://www.ihackintosh.com/2009/08/snow ... d-to-know/

[obsidian]

Apparently, you can use the $29 upgrade disc as a full installation disc. Meaning users of Tiger (and an Intel Mac) can just pay $29 to semi-legally update the OS. I think the distinction between the upgrade and the full "software pack" with iLife and iWork is just to not piss off those customers who bought Leopard for the full $129.

I'll probably pick it up tomorrow and give it a whirl.

[DogMeat]

Will this work on AMD CPU's ?

[bitWISE]

Photoshop CS4 crashes every time I save for web. Had Flash player crash in Safari too.

[Don Carlos]

[seremtan]

it would be faster with a fresh install than an upgrade, no?

[obsidian]

Probably not much difference. It's not like it's Windows with a messed up registry and and tangle of .dll files or something.

[Grudge]

according to the 'tubes, an upgrade is the same as a fresh install (archive and install by default) more or less

[Deathshroud]

[Don Carlos]

HA

[bitWISE]

LOL nice. I'm actually pretty impressed they got 64bit Safari to run Flash.

I can't wait for a 64bit, GCD enabled, final build of Chrome.

[Deathshroud]

Apparently not all systems load into 64bit mode by default. You can get the command to check what you're running, and the how-to make it use 64 here: http://www.ihackintosh.com/2009/08/snow ... d-to-know/

I just tried the fix where it requires you to add arch=x86_64 to a boot config file and it did nothing for my Macbook 2.1 . Sucks.

[bitWISE]

Damn. Mine starts up in 64bit on its own so I haven't tried it.

[Deathshroud]

Well, apparently regular Macbooks don't have an EFI that supports a 64-bit kernel mode. Thus, it is unable to boot into a 64-bit kernel regardless of the CPU's support for it.

[bitWISE]

Transmission doesn't work, you will need to grab a nightly build:
http://transmission.xpjets.com/

Also, itunes seems to load considerably faster now.

[Doombrain]

think i'll wait for a bit

[bitWISE]

vmware fusion wont run if you're in 64bit kernel mode. But I just got into their private beta test today so hopefully a final release isn't too far out.

[Geebs]

Installing it on a MacBook air over my wireless network turned out to be basically impossible. On the other hand, it works perfectly well once installed, and I'm really not going to have a nerd strop about 64 bitness with only 2 gigs of physical ram.

Not even going to think about running the Mac Pro in 64 bit at this point as it'd break all of my recording hardware and with the speed with which audio companies update drivers, we'll be on 10.8 before anything's ready

[EtUL]

but...but...i thought it just works?

At least that's what the trendy guy on the commercial told me.

[bitWISE]

I love my mac but I still hate those commercials.

Installing it on a MacBook air over my wireless network turned out to be basically impossible. On the other hand, it works perfectly well once installed, and I'm really not going to have a nerd strop about 64 bitness with only 2 gigs of physical ram.

Not even going to think about running the Mac Pro in 64 bit at this point as it'd break all of my recording hardware and with the speed with which audio companies update drivers, we'll be on 10.8 before anything's ready

Actually, OSX has entirely different memory issues when it comes to 32bit versus 64bit and stands to gain the most performance from the transition.

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08 ... _bits.html

But I understand what you mean.

[EtUL]

I love my mac but I still hate those commercials.

Aye, the kind of mac user i can get behind.

As far as I see it they both have their merits. I've been brought up in windows, stored in XP and not convinced in my mac usaged that apple is better for me.

[Geebs]

but...but...i thought it just works?

At least that's what the trendy guy on the commercial told me.

I don't think the guy on the tv wrote the code for handling password protected wifi in the EFI (or whatever it is)... I suspect that the problem was the new wireless router doing the usual "behave wierdly until a restart mysteriously fixes the problem" bollocks. If I'd been using one of the new airport base stations which networks via the reality distortion field (all wireless transfers seem to happen at ten times the actual speed but at the end there's always still One More Thing left to go) I'm sure it would have been fine.

Bitwise, thanks for the link which unfortunately I totally failed to understand I think the biggest performance improvements for me are more likely to come when there's a better handling of multiple processor cores in Logic and its plugins, but I haven't yet had the guts to install SL on my desktop yet because some part of my recording setup is bound to break....

[Doombrain]

Just placed the order. Going to do the mac pro first and the MBP if all of CS works for me.

[menkent]

apparently there are a few issues with Snow Leopard:
system crashes
security
compatability?

[obsidian]

Installing right now... done in 25 minutes.