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 Completely worthless! September 11, 2009
B. Ragaini (Boston, MA United States)
4 out of 10 found this review helpful
I installed Snow Leopard the day that I got it, and have had nothing but problems. First, iTunes now causes a kernel panic every time that I try to open it. Not very useful for an iPhone user. Now, in the process of attempting to fix that, all of a sudden Mail stops, and won't even open. So much for "It Just Works." More like "we're just as bad as microsoft now." And, three days later, after re-installing both SL and iTunes several times, and updating both of them to the newest versions, I'm still getting the same error. I didn't have this problem under 10.5, but this update is seriously making me consider switching back to windows.
Downgrade not Upgrade September 19, 2009
Thomas E. Bunge
4 out of 10 found this review helpful
Snow Leopard is a step backward and a real Downgrade. It won't recognize any of my printers, and after doing some research, there is a whole, and very long list, of printers no longer supported.
I reverted to Leopard.
Save your money and a lot of heartache and trouble.
Disaster of an Upgrade for Some Users September 21, 2009
Bacchus (Philadelphia, PA United States)
4 out of 10 found this review helpful
I received Snow Leopard as a freebie when I purchased a new Mac Mini with 3 gigs of ram. The Mini came with 10.5.6 Leopard pre-installed, along with the Snow Leopard install disk, and (thankfully!) the back-up install disks for 10.5.6.
I was a huge fan of Leopard. I had used it for many months on my old G4 Mirror Door with no problems. It was the best, fastest, most stable OS I'd ever worked with. I was perfectly happy with it on the Mini, but after reading many glowing reviews of Snow Leopard, and having the disk in my posession, I succumbed to temptation and broke the cardinal rule of sanity maintenance in the digital world: if it ain't broke, don't F with it.
The install went smoothly and everything seemed fine. I didn't notice any difference in my system, performance-wise, one way or another. The first problem came when I tried to access my old Stickies notes. For a decade and a half I'd kept all my passwords (coded) on a sticky, for easy access. And in all that time, I never had a problem importing my old sticky data after upgrading OS's or switching to new hard drives or under any other circumstances. It was one of those trusted conveniences of the Mac OS that I grew to depend on, and take for granted.
Now, however, Snow Leopard's version 7 of Stickies didn't want anything to do with my version 6 Stickies notes. I couldn't open them. I couldn't import them. Even third party apps didn't help. They were history. Useless old data imprisoned on a back-up drive.
After wasting a day trying every possible solution I gave up. It wasn't worth the hassle of wrestling with anymore.
Then I tried to work in Photoshop. I had a legally installed version of CS that had worked flawlessly under Leopard. Now, under Snow, it crashed every time I tried to use the resize tool. As soon as I hit the return key to exercise the function the program would vanish and my computer would restart.
By now I had visited the Apple discussion boards several times, and was aware that the Photoshop problem was rampant, as were several others. Meanwhile, some satisfied Snow Leopard users were exhorting other mackies to disregard any complaints, that any problems were exaggerated or fixable or things you could live with.
Uh uh. Sorry. Based on my experience, I gained nothing but a few gigs of free space on my hard drive, and lost plenty of important apps and data. There was no way it was worth riding out through patches and upgrades which might fix the problems.
I hauled out the Leopard disks, exorcised the demon Snow Leopard, and did a clean reinstall of my favorite Mac OS. For my purposes, it is just as fast and powerful as SL, and it WORKS!!!! I was able to run photoshop again, and even able to reclaim my precious Stickies.
Snow Leopard may work for you. But if you choose to install it, be sure you do a current back-up of all your programs and data and your existing OS before you insert that 10.6 disk in your drive. And if it screws up your system big time or kills your apps, don't say you weren't warned.
I love Apple. However ... September 8, 2009
John Galt (Central NJ, USA)
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
I really love Apple, but ... I installed Snow Leopard on my iMac only to find that there are no drivers for the HP All in One 5610 printer -- a very popular (and good -- and fairly new) printer, BTW. There are ideas from users for "workarounds" that have been posted on the Apple and HP message boards. However, there have been no official annoucements from the vendors as to when an "official" fix will be released. There was no warning ahead of time as to a possible problem. I expect this from other companies -- but not from Apple.
So, regretfully, I must give this product one star.
useless piece of junk, just lure to pay for the decelopment cost at worst of economic time September 26, 2009
Chih Lai
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
After 45 min installation, nothing like the ads said getting faster boot time or smaller footprint (4G memory, 160G HD 2.1 Ghz core 2 duo). Not loaded full 64bit function because non of my application running 64 bit. No interface improvement, search local drive for files still sucks. Why I want to pay $25 just for a white big cat picture? Smart Apple move for apple to get every dummy to pay the cash for boosting their quarter income balance sheet. I am not going to pay even one cent for Microsoft windows what. But I got lured by paying $25 for a big cat picture(dumb). Vista is backward of OS usability after OS X. OS 9 or the WME are the best so far, just simple and get things done. You do not need to read the manual or look for help, just turn it on, spend 10, 20 minutes on it, then everything works.
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