Put Snow Leopard disc in the drive. Double clicked on install Mac
OSX per instructions.
Field came up saying: To set up the installation of Snow Leopard
click continue, I clicked on all the continues I could find but
none worked. There is no typical continue button showing. I've
I loaded the Snow Leopard disc in the drive and a field came up saying
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On Dec 17, 2010, at 12:22 AM, Allan Streib wrote:
Leopard was a bit of a dog. I never upgraded my old G4 PowerBook
from Tiger because I had heard from several sources that
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i'm sure there is a faster keyboard command to get there as well
as for your troubles, i find it perplexing. if forced to guess, i'd guess
that you don't have the most current version of leopard on your machine, but
this is just grasping at straws
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Tim C bb...@crone.us wrote:
Leopard was faster on Intel, slower on PPC, from what I read.
Just to offer a contrary view, I like Leopard on my old Sawtooth G4
just fine (and have had every version of OS X on this machine to
compare to---I've had it since 1999 and
You must boot from the disk to install an OS on a Mac.
Insert disk, restart computer holding down the C key to boot from the
optical disk, and try again.
Or you can hold down the option key while re-booting and select the
snow leopard drive when it appears. Takes a bit, the open firmware
Boot from the CD.
-- Jim
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You need to boot from the installer disc. Do this by holding down the C key
(works on any Mac) from the moment you power on/reboot, holding down the key
until it is booted up.
Also: if the OS DVD is one that came with another machine, ie not a generic
retail copy, it may refuse to install if
Holding down the C did it. the download was uneventful after that.
I have a 688 page Dummies book on Mac OSX version 10.2 Jaguar,
and an 885 page book on Snow Leopard. I'd like to learn the basics
of the Mac OS from the Dummies book since it would be a lot faster
than the other more technical
Jaguar and Snow Leopard are fairly different in the details. At a very high
level the basics are still the same.
I would say forget the books, just play with the computer for a while. If you
open up something and wonder what it is, look it up and read about it. Macs
are generally made to be
On Dec 17, 2010, at 2:30 PM, Allan Streib wrote:
Jaguar and Snow Leopard are fairly different in the details. At a
very high level the basics are still the same.
I would say forget the books, just play with the computer for a
while. If you open up something and wonder what it is, look it
archer75 wrote:
Had the Mac and the PC hooked together on a little solid state
switch that moved the monitor, mouse, Keyboard,
printers, etc. back and forth between the computers. The
Macbook didn't seem to like that arrangement
because when I hooked the peripherals straight up to the Mac,
On Dec 17, 2010, at 6:57 PM, Fmiser wrote:
archer75 wrote:
Had the Mac and the PC hooked together on a little solid state
switch that moved the monitor, mouse, Keyboard,
printers, etc. back and forth between the computers. The
Macbook didn't seem to like that arrangement
because when I
Does anyone have an opinion on whether or not Snow Leopard is an
improvement over OSX 10.5.6 which came installed in my refurbished
MacBook?
Thanks,
Gerry
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Probably is. Here is the list of enhancements
http://www.apple.com/macosx/refinements/enhancements-refinements.html
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:23 -0500, archer75 arche...@embarqmail.com wrote:
Does anyone have an opinion on whether or not Snow Leopard is an
improvement over OSX 10.5.6 which
Quite a few improvements so I'll load it. Windows finally irritated
me enough that I
got the Mac out and am starting to learn it. Sort of like learning a
new language
since it's so different than WindowsXP.
Thanks,
Gerry
On Dec 16, 2010, at 7:47 PM,
my core 2 duo mini ran faster on snow leopard than leopard. it's been a
while though for snow leopard so i wonder if something new will come down
the pike soon enough
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 8:20 PM, archer75 arche...@embarqmail.com wrote:
Quite a few improvements so I'll load it. Windows
Leopard was a bit of a dog. I never upgraded my old G4 PowerBook from Tiger
because I had heard from several sources that Leopard didn't perform well at
all on the G[45] processors.
Snow Leopard, of course, is Intel-only anyway. So I'm stuck with Tiger on the
PowerBook. It's fine for that
Leopard was faster on Intel, slower on PPC, from what I read.
Daughter has Tiger on her G4, wife has Leopard on her Intel, and no
one is hounding me about upgrading the OS. At release time I gathered
that snow leopard was mostly a security and stability bump rather than
a significant change to
On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:41 -0500, Tim C bb...@crone.us wrote:
10.7 looks like it could be interesting, will we finally see a
normal consumer laptop with a standard touchscreen?
http://www.apple.com/macosx/lion/
Full-screen apps on a Mac is a radical change for Apple. They have never done
Tim wrote:
what comes after lion?
Siamese tom cat
-- Philip
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