Comments on: Mac OS X 10.6: a quick look at Snow Leopard

By: gps car dvd

gps car dvd — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 03:17:52 +0000

Agree with the blog post – it’s a nice upgrade but I wouldn’t have paid full price for it, so good pricing on Apple’s part.

My only niggle so far is having to restart preference panes in 32bit mode to get them to work – here’s hoping over the coming months, they get upgraded.

By: Graham Phillips

Graham Phillips — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:19:41 +0000

Having installed Snow Leopard on my iMac, I was somewhat unhappy when it decided to dump links to all my music on the desktop. Almost 10,000 icons. Almost killed it. I had to go into Safe Mode and delete them all. Seems to be wworking a lot faster now that it was before

By: David Wright

David Wright — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:10:12 +0000

Which Deskjet do you have Rob? My network attached PhotoSmart PS2610 was still fully functioning after the upgrade, although I had read about possible problems. The HP drivers I used for 10.5 for printing and scanning work just fine.

By: Steve Cassidy

Steve Cassidy — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:24:32 +0000

the Apple guys said a lot of the space saving achieved was from leaving out printer drivers, and made “opportunity” noises when talking about compatibility issues – that is, they saw them as opportunities for “the market”.

Perhaps not coincidentally, my nearby recycling centre has a small electrics wheelie bin; it always fills up each week with perfectly usable looking inkjet printers…

By: Rob Sharpe

Rob Sharpe — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:39:36 +0000

Very simple upgrade to install – just press start and go and go to lunch. Everything worked fine after lunch and all my applications do seem a little bit faster. Big problem though is I can’t use my HP Deskjet printer! The only driver available from Apple (Gutenprint) does not support any of its features (e.g double sided printing) and HP do NOT intend to provide an update to their excellent driver available with Leopard. Strange because they DO provide an updated driver for the new Windows 7! A quick check on the HP website indicates that there are a great number of unhappy HP printer users around the world. If this is their way of trying to increase printer sales worldwide I know which company is unlikely to benefit. Looks like I will have to revert to Leopard on my iMac to produce any decent reports and use up my stock of HP ink cartridges.

By: Steve Cassidy

Steve Cassidy — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:52:33 +0000

While you were round the front, I was up the back, in the presentation. I agree with most of what you say – it does seem heavily biased towards laptop users though! They’re very pleased by the multi-touch gesture extensions (but have no plans for a desktop multi-touch pad), and have no idea what will happen when Full Icon Preview is let loose on a corporate file server made visible to the visiting mac that’s picking up an Exchange Mail account…

And Snow Leopard upgrade doesn’t like my 3rd party SSD drive in my Mac Pro. So I’m sulking (actually I would have blogged but the nice people at Moorfields didn’t want me looking at screens for a few days…)

By: David Wright

David Wright — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 06:44:20 +0000

On my machine, I would say 18GiB was space saving, 1GB an adjustment for the new counting scheme…

It also runs noticeably faster.

The problem here, is that Apple have done a lot of work under the hood, solving long standing problems (like the old Finder being re-written in Cocoa) and building foundations for the future.

I was listening to Andy Ihnatko on the way to work and I think he put it succinctly.

Snow Leopard is like redoing the foundations and rewiring a house and repairing the roof. They all needed doing and make a big difference to the structural safety of the house, but for the house owner and people visiting, there isn’t anything to see – unless you have used glossy roof tiles… Living in the house is a generally better experience, you aren’t waiting for the foundations to collapse any more, not worried about fire from faulty electrics and your bed doesn’t get wet when it rains, but, unlike a remodelled kitchen or a new bathroom, you haven’t got anything to point to…

By: Jean N

Jean N — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:25:44 +0000

How much of the extra disk space is real and how much is due to the new way OS X is counting megabytes and gigabytes (1000 vs 1024)?

By: Stu M

Stu M — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:35:29 +0000

The whole Apple OS upgrade concept is entirely different from that of Windows. I’m not really sure that Apple users are getting great value for money on this – more that there’s a bit of streamlining going on. If it’s a case of paying £25 for 9GB of disk space and a bit of zip, I’d sooner run Defrag for a few minutes and grab a couple of 4GB USB sticks. I’m sure it’d be cheaper.

By: Paul B

Paul B — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:47:53 +0000

Agree with the blog post – it’s a nice upgrade but I wouldn’t have paid full price for it, so good pricing on Apple’s part.

My only niggle so far is having to restart preference panes in 32bit mode to get them to work – here’s hoping over the coming months, they get upgraded. Also, my Widemail add-on doesn’t work in SL – apart from that I like the upgrade – it’s faster, and has a few, nice new features.