Customer Reviews and Ratings

My Macbook was running great under Leopard but then I tried upgrading to Snow Leopard and the install failed three times and hosed my system and now I can't even use the recovery discs. I still have a year of applecare so they will have to pay for it but beware.

33 of 40 people found this useful

Generally my 2007 iMac has worked fine (had bluetooth problems) but in December I upgraded to iPhone 4 which was not compatible with my version of itunes. To upgrade iTunes I needed at least leopard os (I had 10.4). That worked well but then I figured I would get the most recent os to avoid that problem in the future. Loading snow leopard worked fine, but once I did the system updates then my computer would
-freeze all the time
-id get the rainbow wheel forever
-it would not wake up from sleep mode
The only fix is to shut the thing off. A friend gave me some tips
1) reset pram: from off push pwr and cmd, and letter p and letter r all at same time while computer chimes
2) from off, press start button and hold
3) to boot in safe mode, from off hold shift key while computer turns on

80 of 103 people found this useful

I installed it and I was pleased with the speed of Safari and how glossy everything else was. Then I attempted to print a page from my Chemistry book and guess what. Well my printer didnt work. I tried installing printer updates and re setting my my printer but nothing worked. So what I have left is to simply get rid of the snow leopard and go back to the older version. I was planning on buying the Lion but why should I waste my money?

70 of 115 people found this useful

Upgraded from leopard to snow leopard because safari was out of date, i have aperture 2.1 version and it does not work, will not open, with snow leopard. im guessing i have to upgrade that now ,going to call in about that. i did notice that start up takes a few seconds longer but it isn't a big deal, i need to upgrade my memory anyway that may help it.

28 of 35 people found this useful

I am running Mac OS X 10.5.8 and I think it is unbelievable that in order for me to upgrade to the Lion (or now the Mountain Lion), I have to purchase all of the previous versions. I understand that it is definitely a lot cheaper than upgrading on a PC, but it's a waste of $29.99 (buying Snow Leopard to upgrade to Lion which is ANOTHER $29.99) or $59.98 (buying Snow Leopard AND Lion to upgrade to the Mountain Lion which is probably ANOTHER $29.99) as I won't even be using the versions I'm paying for other than downloading the next version. Pretty soon there will be softwares and programs that REQUIRE these higher versions, and I will pretty much be forced to upgrade. I don't understand why we are getting a new version every year. It just seems that once somebody gets used to one version, another comes out.

547 of 566 people found this useful

Snow leopard is awful. I got it because I needed a newer operating system to run maya and mudbox, but it was so not worth it. I've had it for about a week now, and I've gotten error messages I've never seen before, and had to restart my computer like four times. I've been having problems that I never had with leopard, and I'm seriously thinking about uninstalling it.

80 of 105 people found this useful

I am still learning about Snow Leopard,and so are thousands of other people. How do you do this or how do you that. So it seems crazy to me to bring out Lion,and i heard there is another upgrade Mountain Lion. You are just getting use to a system then they bring out another 2 versions. It`s OK for these whizz kids,because they are gifted with this knowledge. I wished i was gifted with this technical knowledge,but unfortunately i am not. Microsoft are the same. I was using Windows 98, and then they brought out Windows Vista XP or something like that. This made me change from a PC to a Mac, because a friend showed me about the Mac system. I found that the Mac system was very user friendly, don`t get me wrong you still have to work at it.

31 of 47 people found this useful

I put SL in and said good by to all the work I had on an External HD Lost most of the Iphoto files . I never saw Stacks.

37 of 50 people found this useful

I made the mistake of updating to Lion... BIG MISTAKE! I wanted iCloud but it isn't worth the problems that it has caused! PowerPC apps are now no longer supported, and if that wasn't bad enough the upgrade causes Safari to crash on a VERY REGULAR BASIS and Java no longer supports chat sites... I wish I would never have installed the upgrade! Do so at your own risk!!

119 of 141 people found this useful

After checking if my iMac (Intel Core 2 Duo processors and plenty of memory) was ok to upgrade and reading the review's I still stupidly went ahead and upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard.
Disc arrived very promptly and as always with Apple was well packaged. Snow Leopard didn't take too long to install and does look really good, but not much different from Leopard.
However I have now seen The Spinning Beach Ball of Doom more times in the last two weeks than in the previous THREE YEARS and FOUR MONTHS, since my IMac arrived on my doorstep.
Its slower, noisier, Safari crashes, and has completely frozen a couple of times.
I am very unimpressed. I might as well have a PC !
And my iPhone4 and iMac still won't talk to each other.

140 of 156 people found this useful