Maze Talks About: Mac OS X Snow Leopard

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maze
– 1. September 2009Posted in: Gadgets, Geekiges

Snow Leopard arrived today. And here are my two cents about installing it on 4 different machines:

MacBook Air 1,1 | 1.6 GHz Core 2 Duo | 2GB RAM | 80GB HDD

Install took about 30 Minutes, everything works like a charm. Shutdown takes about 2 (two) seconds which is extremely fast, startup time is about 50 secs, which is a bit faster than under Leopard.

MacBook Pro 5,1 | 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo | 4GB RAM | 500GB HDD

Install took about 30 minutes as well, and to be honest I had some problems after first time booting into Snow Leopard:

  • coreaudiod consumed all free RAM at once making it impossible to work. Simple solution: open up Activity Monitor, kill the process, open up a Terminal, and type 
    sudo rm /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/coreaudiod.plist

    after that reboot. More information can be found at the Apple support forums.

Mac mini 1,1 | 1.83GHz Core Duo | 2GB RAM | 60 GB HDD & MacBook 5,1 | 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo | 2GB RAM | 160GB HDD

Installation took about 50 minutes on the Mac mini – it’s not the fastest machine Apple has ever built – and about 30 minutes on the MacBook, but it’s a neat media server.

Everything works like a charm too.

Incompatible Software and Workarounds

An almost complete list can be found at snowleopard.wikidot.com. Here is a list of apps that work with Snow Leopard (at least with m Macs):

My Compatibility Chart for Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Name Working? Solution
iWork 09 yes  
iLife 09 yes  
Firefox 3.5.2 yes  
Last.fm yes  
Adium 1.3.6 yes  
Skype 2.8.0 yes  
Coda 1.6.5 yes  
Transmit 3.6.7 yes  
xTorrent 2.0 yes  
Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection 2.0.1 yes  
Pixelmator 1.4.1 yes  
Mailplane 2.0.13 yes  
Nambu 1.2.1 yes Delete preferences, 
rm -rf ~/Library/Application Support/Nambu/
Logitech Control Center 3.0 partially Exposé via button doesn't work, instead assign "Open Application: Exposé" to desired button. "Show Desktop" doesn't work at all. "Spaces" and "Dashboard" work out of the box.

Exchange Sync

Works absolutely flawless in Mail, iCal and Address Book, and is the one feature that made me buy 10.6 in the first place – Multiple address books and calendars be gone! You can now sync your Google Calendar with iCal too.

Dock Exposé

Nice to have. Enough said.

QuickTime X

Okay, but I often need to concatenate movie files and save it as one file which works with QuickTime 7 but not with X. Luckily Snow Leopard offers you to install QuickTime 7 as well, which can be found in /Applications/Utilites.

Screen Sharing

Is now executing keyboard shortcuts on the remote machine instead of the connecting one.

Anything else?

No, not really as far as I’m concerned.

Should I buy it?

Yeah why not ;-)

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