Comments on: Apple’s Mac OS X Snow Leopard Review

By: Georgehd

Georgehd — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:46:41 +0000

I have not upgraded to Snow Leopard and I am glad that I have not. A number of programs are not ready – Soho Notes, 1Password, Quicken and possibly others. Quicken will not be ready until next year.
My Soho notes has stopped functioning because I upgraded to their latest version which is causing trouble.
All in all, I am happy to still use Leopard. Apple should have waited until developers were really ready to make an upgrade. What we have now is a combination of fixes that I would imagine will cause trouble.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:34:44 +0000

Did find solution: check double fonts in fontbook, and delete older fonts…

Should solve the problem!

Robert

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:26:03 +0000

MS office 08 does not work at all after upgrading to SL on my Macbook pro. Others say it works on their Macbook pro, so what the issue is, i don not know. Installed office 08 twice (after removing it wih application). But no luck.
I notice that when word is launched, it freezes at ” loading and optimizing fonts” at splash screen. In Activitymonitor i see an app called Fontcashapp is using 99.9 % of cpu time… so i force quit both ms word and fontcacheap….
Anyone?

By: Fritz

Fritz — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:12:52 +0000

Running Entourage (MS Office ’04) in Snow Leopard is crashing all of my open apps about every 45 minutes. The buzz on the blogs says that upgrading to Office ’08 won’t help. I hope a SL update fixes this.

It’s ALWAYS something …

By: jake

jake — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:35:52 +0000

I’m really digging Snow Leopard, but I have my fair share of qualms as well. No more cut and pasting Address Book contacts??? Check the rest out here:

http://jakeandjake.blogspot.com/2009/09/qualms-with-snow-leopardbad-kitty.html

By: Billy Doyle

Billy Doyle — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:02:44 +0000

FTFF indeed. There’s always Path Finder!

But anyway, I installed it on both my machines on the first day, and everything is going well! It broke a few little extensions like Soundflower, but all has been fixed. CamTwist has issues with some effects, but Steve G is expecting to have an update out within a week.

All-in-all a great upgrade!

By: Darren Wilcox

Darren Wilcox — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:56:33 +0000

Hi Chris
I went out a got Snow Leopard on the day of it’s release it cost me a total of £25 from my locale Apple Store hear in the UK. I couldn’t not wait to get it installed I backed all my file’s up the night before as I wanted to do a clean install on my system. It took me about an hour to install that included all my software as well which was great. The install was went without a hitch and took up around 11 to 13 Gig so it has left me gigabytes of space on my system. Which as you probably know every gig count’s when handling media in the form of audio and video. I did have a problem with Mail but cant say 100% sure that it was Snow Leopard that was at fault as I know my email provider was doing some maintenance over the last week which as they have stated could cause loss of email service in some area’s but it’s working now without any problems. One other problem I have had is with my collection of screen savers because they are written in 32bit they wont run on Snow Leopards screen saver engine but am sure a fix is just around the corner. I have noticed a slight increase in performance both in 64bit apps and 32bit apps they seem to be more responsive as well as the actual desktop itself. Quick time look’s very sweet when playing media files and the new re written Finder just adds a little more icing to the cake in term’s of managing my files. The boot time is also quicker both from a cold restart and from the sleep mode so I can’t imagine what it’s going to be like on your SSD im looking forward to hearing your feedback on the SSD side of things as I am looking to purchase a SSD in the future.
For me Snow Leopard is step forward in the OS X series and make’s what was already a great OS even greater and slicker to use. Am happy with the purchase price and also the performance boot’s.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:20:25 +0000

the 2 best parts of my snow leopard upgrade that i can boast about are:

1. the annotations in preview (especially for PDF documents – as we get all our uni lecture notes in PDF format)

2. the speed with which the application “Teleport” works, the transition from one computer to another is now flawless, which it wasnt under leopard

yay apple for publishing such a fantastic os

By: Bernie

Bernie — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:00:27 +0000

Did you get a chance to boot into 64 bit? You have to hold te 6 and 4 during start up. I love it. I really have no complaints yet. Got my colloquy and streamdesk. I’m golden.

By: Rodney Turner

Rodney Turner — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:41:37 +0000

I’m enjoying Snow Leopard a lot. I’ve seen the dramatic boost in my applications. I checked my hard drive before the installation to see the available space and I had about 36gb left. After the install I had 64gb. I’ve also installed on two other macs with Tiger and the performance is great.