Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

Reviews for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

  • 5.0 out of 5 stars

    Good upgrade

    • Written by from Decatur

    I just installed Snow Leopard today on my iMac, which is about a year old. I'm one of those kinds of people that simply likes to stay up to date on things, but I was also interested in the Exchange update to Apple Mail. I use Mail as my default email client and I have a new Exchange email account through my school. I was a bit frustrated that I couldn't get it set up using Mail before, but now I was able to setup the account very smoothly without any problems. Aside from that, everything else on my system seems to be running very smoothly since the upgrade. I like the new QuickTime Player as well. It's a nice addition to 10.6. No complaints from me on this one.

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  • 5.0 out of 5 stars

    Perfect

    • Written by from Dover

    Works great...everything is seemless. Awesome Job APPLE

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  • 5.0 out of 5 stars

    Correcting JC from Westfeild

    • Written by from Beaumont

    "Snow Leopard: really, it's just terrible. it took the rock-solid, unbeatably stable mac I've been using for almost 2 yrs and made it as frustrating and hard to use as (dare I say it?) .... a PC! I upgraded using the Family Pack, which upgraded to Snow Leopard, Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and all the rest."

    It has took it. But it has a new powerful core. That's your Problem and some incompatible apps.


    "Since then:

    - overall system speed slower

    Yeah, something's up with your Mac.

    - Firefox takes > 30 sec to load

    Firefox always loads slow on boot up.

    - Google Chrome browser essentially unusable: locks & freezes frequently

    That's on PC too. It's Google's problem. Plus, it's a beta right now!

    - iPod shuffle frequently doesn't mount into iTunes or Finder at all (though nano and iPhone mount just fine)

    Problem with your iPod.

    - external Firewire 800 drive for Time Machine unmounts every time the machine wakes from sleep (have to turn off & re-start)

    Something about your Mac...

    - "Save As" command causes EVERY application trying to use it to freeze, about once a week. This includes Safari, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Word, Excel, Power Point, Firefox, Chrome. This includes the "Save As PDF" command from the print menu. I do a large volume of 'save as' work-- everything is PDF'ed these days!"

    Ugh, must I say it again. Your Mac!

    "I update software weekly and re-start regularly. Still one of the Mac faithful, but Snow Leopard is just _amazingly_ buggy and unstable. PLEASE come out with the next upgrade (and make it as stable and reliable as pre-10.6 OSes) so I can get out of this prison!!"

    "just _amazingly_ buggy and unstable" is that a new type of language? It takes time for a new OS, and all future Mac OSes will be built from Snow Leopard. So you're stuck with this so called "prison".

    As for your Mac. It sounds like an upgrade or a bloat of software makes it like that. You must have overused your memory.

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  • 5.0 out of 5 stars

    Certainly faster, small changes... worth $30.

    • Written by from Troy

    I got my first mac in 2008 (a black 13" MacBook upgraded to 4GB RAM), and rather enjoyed the switch from PC. I use both regularly and prefer Mac. After finally getting my dream computer 2 weeks ago (27" quad-core iMac) and having no issue with compatibility, I upgraded the MacBook to 10.6.3 as well. There are neat small tweaks, but the biggest difference is the speed. It does any and every process more quickly, with no issues of compatibility, and at a noticeably lower resting temperature. Easily worth a $30 upgrade, but mind that it IS computer software. It's not perfect and it's not the guaranteed end-all solution.

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  • 2.0 out of 5 stars

    Very disappointing. Should have stuck with Leopard

    • Written by from Surbiton

    The Snow Leopard has been bitterly disappointing. In almost 1 year since I upgraded via the family pack, that's all the iApps 9.0, I may have been able to shut it down properly about 10 to 12 times. Every other time it has just hung on some application or the other and have to hard reset.
    iPhoto 9 hangs. Mail hangs. Firefox hangs. Safari 4.0 hangs. Force quite has been the most frequently used command. followed by a hard reset.
    Can't go back to Leopard now can I ? Waste of money and waste of time really.
    Wait for the Arctic Leopard or African leopard or whatever will be released next.

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  • 5.0 out of 5 stars

    This is one fast, skilled cat!

    • Written by from Portland

    I've been using OS X for years now, starting with Tiger and then with Leopard. I was reluctant to upgrade for fear of bugs and kinks that would need to be worked out, but Snow Leopard has made my Mac run faster, Exposé is made much better (and I already thought it was pretty perfect), scrollable stacks are great, and this version of Quicktime kicks the heck out of the weak QT versions of the past, running fast without a clunky window and playing more file formats, including AVI. Your Mac will start up and shut down quicker, and all the native applications are tweaked and maxed out. You'll love Snow Leopard!

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  • 3.0 out of 5 stars

    snow leopard

    • Written by from Annapolis

    Very unstable - consistently fails to wake from sleep
    Customer support is only interested in selling extended support. hangs up, no closure on cases, and above all, no solutions or hope for solutions.
    No Cisco VPN support - bug asks for user name/password but no place to enter it.
    Long time Linux user - used to an ultra stable platform. What gives? FreeBSD is also very stable and X is nearly perfect.

    Your web browser - Safari is about as bad as IE as far as security vulnerabilities go - see the list at US-Cert.gov. Just fix it.

    I shoulda known that when Steven Jobs buys TV spots touting the stability of OS X, he took on the credibility of Bill Gates.

    Other than that, Snow has promise, but you gotta get off your butts and fix the broken stuff.

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  • 1.0 out of 5 stars

    Skip it and wait for the next OS update!

    • Written by from Westfield

    background: rabid mac user and evangelist for more than fifteen years.

    Snow Leopard: really, it's just terrible. it took the rock-solid, unbeatably stable mac I've been using for almost 2 yrs and made it as frustrating and hard to use as (dare I say it?) .... a PC! I upgraded using the Family Pack, which upgraded to Snow Leopard, Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and all the rest. Since then:

    - overall system speed slower
    - Firefox takes > 30 sec to load
    - Google Chrome browser essentially unusable: locks & freezes frequently
    - iPod shuffle frequently doesn't mount into iTunes or Finder at all (though nano and iPhone mount just fine)
    - external Firewire 800 drive for Time Machine unmounts every time the machine wakes from sleep (have to turn off & re-start)
    - "Save As" command causes EVERY application trying to use it to freeze, about once a week. This includes Safari, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Word, Excel, Power Point, Firefox, Chrome. This includes the "Save As PDF" command from the print menu. I do a large volume of 'save as' work-- everything is PDF'ed these days!

    I update software weekly and re-start regularly. Still one of the Mac faithful, but Snow Leopard is just _amazingly_ buggy and unstable. PLEASE come out with the next upgrade (and make it as stable and reliable as pre-10.6 OSes) so I can get out of this prison!!

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  • 5.0 out of 5 stars

    The Best Gets Better

    • Written by from Eugene

    The price is great. It does everything that Apple promises. I've used Linux, Windows and even an early version of the Google OS and Snow Leopard is by far the best.

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  • 5.0 out of 5 stars

    I love it

    • Written by from SANTA MONICA

    Can't live without it.

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  • 5.0 out of 5 stars

    Best OS X Upgrade

    • Written by from Bartlett

    I've been with Mac OS X since 10.2, and all I have to say is WOW. Mac and iPhone are so... extraordinary together. Good.

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  • 1.0 out of 5 stars

    We're not in 90s anymore

    • Written by from Marina Del Rey

    I have experience using both Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.6 I read a lot of reviews and listened many good opinions about Mac and Mac OS X and decided to give it a shot and ended up buying iMac 24'' 4GB w/ Mac OS 10.6. I never had so painful user experience, starting with a hard to use apple mini keyboard and magic mouse (forget about ergonomics) and ending up with using Mac OS - which didn't change sine 90's when I used it last time. I mean, seriously, it’s 2010 and you can still only resize a window from one little corner? You can't close an application using X button so they will stay your memory, if you used X button then you can't switch to this app anymore using Option+Tab (you will see only menu at the top - no windows left). The applications do not have main full window (e.g. Photoshop) so you desktop clogged with many windows which has nothing to do with an app you working with. Forget about using Parallels and/or Fusion (running Windows on Mac OS) - it is slow. It becomes very slow with multiple users (only me and my spouse use iMac - we are very active users) and I have to reboot the Mac OS X (which I would never expect from this OS) to be fast and responsive again. It is no faster anymore than Windows 7 in all aspects, it is no more stable either, I had it friezed last time during the software update. This is my personal experience and I hope it will be helpful for somebody deciding between Windows 7 and Mac OS 10.6

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  • 5.0 out of 5 stars

    It works, seems to be a little bit faster

    • Written by from Yorba Linda

    I gave this 5 stars because of the price and for amount of performance increase. My macbook pro is already fast and I rarely have performance issues with it after the upgrade I expect it to be a bit faster. The upgrade process itself was very easy the only down side was I had to compile my ruby gems to be 64 bit compatible. But your average user will not have to do this. I appreciate the amount of effort apple and the apple developers put into their OS making it simple for the user and reliable. There is nothing worse then having a bad OS.

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