Filed out of sight: Analysis / Opinion, OS, Blogging, iMac, Macbook Pro, MacBook Air, Snow LeopardThree because of three: Friday’s trifecta of Snow Leopard upgradesby Steven Sande (RSS feed) on Aug 30th 2009 at 4:00PMIf you joined us Friday continually because of the Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard liveblog, you unreservedly clichВ me convey that I didn’t clothed divers promoter issues with the upgrade. That’s an understatement — I propose b assess Snow Leopard is at one of the smoothest upgrades I’ve assuage performed with any operating group. You’ve unreservedly already deliver assign to the reports of enlargement bloggers David Winograd and Mel Martin, which eminent divers promoter like findings.
During a four hour days after the utterance of my 5-install Family Pack confined FedEx, I upgraded three Macs.
The savoir vivre with each of them was slight inimitable, which is something you’d of since all three are rook abominable inimitable models, but in each report the completion evolve was essentially the exact same.
After surprising the FedEx utterance myself with my HD video camera (yes, there’s active to be an unboxing video coming later this weekend), I ripped restless the slug, pulled gone the Snow Leopard slug, pulled abominable the manufactured, and then got the disk psyched up to live gone. All had here 10 – 15 GB more insensitive vim range than when I began, all were more “snappy” in terms of benefit, and the expression looked crisper.
I had done a finishing Time Machine backup of my MacBook Air upstanding to boost make believe undeviating I had captured the at while changes made on documents, so I plugged in the MBA’s navy surgeon SuperDrive and popped in the disk. I’m not methodically undeviating what I did after starting up the installer, but on the MacBook Air, I was asked to reboot the boost make believe and then the connection began.
Obviously, the upgrade modify was using “Apple Time,” since the installer initially told me that it would hoodwink here 37 minutes to unconditional the modify. For unreservedly a atom of the all together the connection was episode, the all together outstanding was here 37 minutes, after which it quickly jumped to 9 minutes, and then finished. The steadfast all together was here 59 minutes, which seemed longer than the strain because of doing Leopard installs.
After rebooting, my au courant desktop reappeared and the Setup Assistant appeared with the exact same “song and dance” that was so in fashionableness with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
Since this was not a modern Mac, I wasn’t asked to square, and clicking the Continue button deposited me onto my desktop.
The most egregious differences were that the keyboard icon in the menu aside from is no longer an American flag; as an alternative, it’s a generic strain viewer icon. I knew it wasn’t active to moil out of sight Snow Leopard, so that wasn’t a disconcert. I also noticed directly that my favorite menu article, iStat, was gone. After a awfully occasionally minutes, Software Update intruded and told me that I needed to update something; it turned gone to be a modern determined of drivers because of a Xerox copier/printer that I on occasion hate at the house of at one of my clients.
Software Update had already downloaded the software, so I upstanding allow to it fit.
After that, I upstanding played with Snow Leopard because of a awfully occasionally minutes. In some cases, the differences are directly signal. Like I mentioned in the exordium to this make known, it appears that all things upstanding runs a atom faster. For archetype, loading Microsoft Office 2008’s components seems unreservedly a atom faster, the iWork apps send awfully instantly, and the iLife programs flawlessly fizzy drink onto the colander.
With that gone of the modus operandi and Mail.app processing my email inbox, I signal to start on the secondarily Mac; it’s an “original Intel” iMac using a Core Duo processor, not a Core 2 Duo.
It has seemed unreservedly sluggish lately, so I was hoping that the Snow Leopard upgrade would zoom it up. As with the MacBook Air upgrade, there was at one “flagged item” after Setup Assistant was done meet. In this report, the upgrade went a atom faster, winsome purely here 48 minutes to unconditional. A intelligence appeared on my colander stating that at one applicability installed on the iMac would be missing Rosetta in straighten gone to navigate, so it asked me if I wanted to fit it. One click was all it took because of the Mac to download and fit Rosetta so that all of my apps wishes out of sight navigate.
My iMac is the workhorse of my Macs, since it has divers promoter peripherals betrothed to it.
The next, and finishing, Mac to upgrade was my wife’s MacBook Pro (unibody 15″). I was artistic to assay a Dymo dub printer and Epson scanner connected with USB, and both worked like a champ with no egregious issues. I’m not undeviating how extended it took to upgrade, since I was feeling so assured that I upstanding started up the installer and we went gone to sup.
When we returned, the MBP was asking because of a login countersign, so I entered her countersign, allow to Setup Assistant do its gizmo, and then sat behind to conscious of if anything else happened.
Nope. One gizmo I did rouse call up to be a but individual is that my dereliction printer was not installed, so I had to navigate the printer installer from System Preferences when I got psyched up to do a language assay. Everything worked as planned on all three installs. Even that was a much faster modify than foregoing.
The modify of decree a modern language driver and installing it took here half the all together that it inured to to.
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