Mac related - just ordered Snow Leopard -- anyone have experiences with it?

dd74 · 09-08-2009, 12:47 PM

I plan to install Snow Leopard this weekend. I do not plan to have anymore Microsoft apps on my machine. I'll go with IWork or whatever Mac touts. Maybe even Star Office.

holtjv · 09-08-2009, 01:10 PM

Just installed it. Restart is a bit faster, wakeup (if you just close the lid on the lapt) seems 2x faster--amazing.

The other doo-dads are whatever. I got 7 more gigs of space that I needed on my Air.

Def worth the $

holtjv · 09-08-2009, 01:12 PM

Oh and spotlight is also significantly faster.

Just on principle, get it. Any o/s manufacturer who makes their o/s smaller and faster deserves some praise. As opposed to the other one...

dd74 · 09-08-2009, 01:13 PM

Sweet! Sounds good.

Moses · 09-08-2009, 01:22 PM

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Originally Posted by dd74

I plan to install Snow Leopard this weekend. I do not plan to have anymore Microsoft apps on my machine. I'll go with IWork or whatever Mac touts. Maybe even Star Office.

I really like Pages. It's the iWork word processor. Funny, it seems more backward compatible with old Word documents that the latest edition of Word itself.

Jesset100 · Jesset100's Garage

Expose is worth the price alone.

dd74 · 09-08-2009, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Moses

I really like Pages. It's the iWork word processor. Funny, it seems more backward compatible with old Word documents that the latest edition of Word itself.

I have Office 2007 on my work machine, and have to dumb down every document I send to someone. Plus, the GUI is just dreadful. I hear the GUI for 2010 for Mac is even worse.

And, close to $400 for the software.

dd74 · 09-08-2009, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Jesset100

Expose is worth the price alone.

What's Expose?

HHI944 · 09-08-2009, 02:02 PM

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Expose is worth the price alone.

+1 the speed increases are nice also.

holtjv · 09-08-2009, 02:03 PM

Expose is a way to organize your apps into windows within the UI--so you can always have firefox and office running in the #2 window and photoshop and whatever in another, etc.

Expose is not useful for me at all as I have a laptop. I can see where it would be useful if you had a mongo monitor and needed to have several apps open at the same time. But maybe I don't have the right idea about it.

Pages and their ppt are superior. But the 2004 mac version of excel (numbers?) had some serious deficiencies as I recall--like couldn't freeze panes. Anyone know if they fixed that?

holtjv · 09-08-2009, 02:07 PM

here's a screenshot of the configuration for expose/spaces. think I'll give it another shot..

holtjv · 09-08-2009, 02:08 PM

Crap. Got expose and spaces mixed up. Sorry. Expose is excellent--also freaks visiting users out when they shoot the cursor to one corner and all the apps go away.

jyl · jyl's Garage

Alas, I cannot install Snow Leopard. I have been left behind. My iMac is a G5.

Maybe try OpenOffice for Mac? I have not, but OpenOffice for Windows is pretty good.

Office for Mac sucks. The interface is terrible. I think they do it on purpose.

RedBaron · 09-08-2009, 05:26 PM

I put it on my MBP, and it is definitely worth the $30!

widgeon13 · 09-08-2009, 06:22 PM

My HP all in one 1210psc won't run on it, which sucks. Seems like every other printer driver is available but that one, don't quite understand that.

campbellcj · 09-09-2009, 09:17 PM

widgeon13 - perhaps check HP's web site for an updated driver. It may have been released after Apple froze their build.

I loaded it last weekend and thus far haven't really noticed any change on my Macbook Air. However, I mainly just use this machine for browsing (Firefox) and sometimes work email (Entourage) so nothing too hardcore.

YTNUKLR · YTNUKLR's Garage

I bought the box set with iLife, iWork, and all that other stuff. I understand if you just buy the $29 upgrade for Leopard you just get the new operating system, but not ALL the new versions of the programs.

John (JYL) - You are in luck. I had a CS friend install it on Tiger (Mac OSX- 10.4) and that's what I have. Going to do the install of Snow Leopard this weekend.

Old mac laptop, but new OS, new SSD and maxed out on RAM. Works OK now, should work even better by Sunday. I love Mac GUI, Mac software, Mac thinking.

widgeon13 · 09-10-2009, 02:48 AM

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Originally Posted by campbellcj

widgeon13 - perhaps check HP's web site for an updated driver. It may have been released after Apple froze their build.

I loaded it last weekend and thus far haven't really noticed any change on my Macbook Air. However, I mainly just use this machine for browsing (Firefox) and sometimes work email (Entourage) so nothing too hardcore.

I got it squared away, just thought it was silly I had to hunt for it. There were all sorts of HP printers given as options except mine. Working fine now. I don't see much difference in having now installed Snow Leopard, actually think my MBPro runs hotter than before.

Still like Mac better than Windows though.