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Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
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Release Date: August 28, 2009
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 Snow Leopard Full of Bugs October 13, 2009
Elizabeth J. Laden (Island Park, Idaho)
6 out of 12 found this review helpful
Just Google "Snow Leopard bugs" and you will see that this OS has major issues, and that Apple is not proactively addressing them. On my computer, Snow Leopard freezes the mouse and does not recognize Airport. There is also a situation in which Snow Leopard completely erases all data, and the data cannot be retrieved. If you own Snow Leopard- Google "Snow Leopard data loss" before you do anything.
Massive Network Connectivity Issues October 6, 2009
Anonymouse
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
Something is seriously wrong with Snow Leopard. I did the upgrade to a mid-2007 Macbook and I, along with lots of other people, are having critical connectivity issues. It is not possible to use the internet reliably--I'll be browsing using Safari or FIrefox and I suddenly get error messages saying I'm not connected to the internet. Strange, though, is that several other computers on my LAN are connected and are using the internet just fine. I've tried all the suggestions on the various discussion forums but with no luck. Apple isn't responding at all. These problems started with the first upgrade after the initial release of Snow Leopard. When Apple steps up to the plate to fix this mess, Snow Leopard probably will be good.
Lots of bugs, should have been beta test release not a final public release October 29, 2009
B. Johnson (Minneapolis, MN United States)
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
Since upgrading from OSX 10.5.x Leopard to OXS 10.6.x Snow Leopard, I have several new and very annoying problems:
1. Mail constantly loses the passwords for 1-3 of my 6 SMTP email accounts, and prompts me to re-enter the password. I re-enter the password, check the Save box, and then have the exact same problem again the next day.
2. My printer hooked up to my Airport Express won't print unless I turn on the printer before turning on the Airport Express. I used to be able to turn the printer off when not in use and just turn it on when printing, and with OSX 10.5 my MacBook would print just fine. Not anymore.
3. My speakers hooked up to my Airport Express have begun randomly disconnecting again following the Snow Leopard upgrade. This problem occurred in early 10.5.x releases but was corrected in later 10.5.x releases. Apple appears to have removed the code which fixed the problem.
4. The latest version of iTunes, 9.x, which coincided with the Snow Leopard release, has removed the ability in List View to select a specific Genre. In iTunes 9.x, List View only allows the user to filter on Artist. It can still sort by Name, Artist, Album, Genre and so forth, but since the user can't select select and filter just a single Genre prior to sorting, it's a chaotic list and useless to me. This change in functionality was definitely a step backwards.
5. Bento 1.x is completely incompatible. I had a significant amount of data stored in Bento 1.x, and with Apple now publicly stating that Bento 1 won't work under Snow Leopard, the only choice is to extract the data and stop using Bento, or the user must pay for an upgrade to Bento 2 or 3. Since I don't need the new functionality in version 2 or 3, I just downloaded a trial copy of Bento 3, brought up my data, and exported it in spreadsheet format. Then deleted Bento.
6. FileVault -- I activated FileVault on my MacBook Pro under 10.5 Leopard, long before the upgrade to 10.6 Snow Leopard, then did the upgrade to 10.6 successfully with FileVault active during the entire process. Now I'd like to turn FileVault off (to take advantage of all the Time Machine features, many of which aren't available with FileVault turn on), but each time I try to turn off FileVault the de-encryption process runs for about 4 hours and then tells me "there was an error, that de-encryption failed...", and then just gives me a blank blue'ish screen (Mac Blue Screen of Death?) with a swirling OSX timer in the middle of the screen. I've let it run for 10 hours without it coming back. I have to turn the machine off by holding down the power button for 10 seconds, and then hitting the power button again to turn it back on. The machine comes up fine with all programs, settings, and data still intact and FileVault still active, and everything runs fine. Bottom line here appears to be that if you turn on FileVault in 10.5, then upgrade to 10.6, you can never turn FileVault back off. Just ridiculous.
I understand that Snow Leopard was supposed to be a operating system core upgrade aimed at improving performance. It would appear that the performance gains were the result of removing code which ensured stability and compatibility. Not acceptable. I'm in the process of back-migrating to OSX 10.5 Leopard, and will be attempting to either return the Snow Leopard upgrade to Apple, or sell it on eBay.
Time Machine users BEWARE September 20, 2009
Michael Jacobs (Birmingham, AL USA)
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
I had no problems with Time Machine in Leopard. I have two macs backed up with time machine to the same hard drive connected to an airport extreme base station (so the macs back up over my network). This worked fine for months until I "upgraded" to Snow Leopard. Now, one or both of the machines will get an error message: "The backup disk image "/Volumes/blahblah.sparsebundle" could not be accessed (error 109)." This happened within the first few backups after installation. I was able to erase the backup file, reformat the target volume, and perform a brand new time machine backup, which corrected the problem, but now I am getting the same message on the other mac. I think it was to do with the two machines trying to access the drive at the same time, which hangs up the writing of the backup file, permanently rendering it unusable. That's just a guess.
A google search shows that lots of other people are having this problem. So, if you have a similar Time Machine set up, stick with Leopard for now.
Snow Leopard Let Down October 8, 2009
D. Dodd
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
I was so hyped about the new OS. The price was great and I'm a long-time Mac user. Usually, everything just works. I thought, it would all just work even better.
So, you can imagine my disappointment when: not only have I noticed no performance improvements whatsoever, the installation also
messed up certain settings in my Word for Mac. It completely disabled the custom dictionaries, "Microsoft Office ACL [English]/[Spanish]." I'm a translator and these functions are indispensable. I haven't had the chance to run too many other programs with it yet, but I'm not expecting anything. I spoke to someone else, and they seemed to think it was great. Not so in this case.
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