The day Snow Leopard came out, I looked at the compatibility
list, didn't see any deal-breakers for me, and upgraded that day.
Of course, I made very sure that my Time Machine was working
and updated a clone of my hard drive just before upgrading
just to be on the safe side. It was cheap, easy and safe for
me to upgrade, so why not? Apparently, many users feel
this way about it.
I wasn't completely problem-free, but the problems were
manageable enough that I didn't feel like I needed to revert, and
all my issues seem to be fixed now. The main problem I had was
with EyeTV which was listed as "compatible" but should have
been listed as "compatible with some issues". It would take so
long to launch and get to the point of presenting a live TV
window that for a while I thought it was hanging. Most users
didn't have this problem, I was just unlucky. I eventually figured
out that I needed to start the program a long time before I actually
wanted it, and an update last week fixed the problem altogether.
I really like Snow Leopard. To give just one example, I really like
the control over Flash that I have in Safari on Snow Leopard.
I can quit the Flash plugin process and not be bothered by
annoying flash ads on any of my open pages. If I actually want
flash content on a page, I just refresh the page.
I don't regularly use layout or presentation software, so the font
problem is not an issue for me, but it doesn't seem like a particularly
big one for anyone. As I understand it, is only a problem with
character spacing for Type 1 postscript fonts, and then essentially
only for Keynote or QuarkXPress, and then only for documents
created in Tiger or Leopard and moved to Snow Leopard.
What other odd Snow Leopard behaviors have you been seeing or
hearing about?
On Oct 5, 2009, at 12:00 AM, COMPUTERGUYS-L automatic digest system
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From: "t.piwowar" <[email protected]>
Subject: Crazy Adoption Rate for Snow Leopard
Are people out of their minds? This report says that 20% of Macs are
now running Snow Leopard. That's insane. Apple has shipped its first
updates to X.6.1 but there are still many reports of odd behavior. The
one about fonts is a show stopper for me. Maybe it is the $25 price
that got everyone moving. Has any one on the list upgraded to Snow
Leopard?
"Eighteen percent of Mac users are running Snow Leopard just one month
after its release, according to Web metrics firm Net Applications.
That‚s a remarkable upgrade rate for the latest iteration of OS X,
especially considering Snow Leopard is Intel only. Overall, OS X now
represents 5.12 percent of the worldwide OS market, up from 4.87
percent in August. While that might seem like a small increase, it‚s
up 37 percent from a year ago, and the platform is seeing a continuing
a steady rise. In contrast, Windows has now fallen below 93 percent,
though the release of Windows 7 will likely result in a temporary
spike. Nonetheless, OS X is moving up, as is iPhone OS. "
http://theappleblog.com/2009/10/01/snow-leopards-leaps-in-market-
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