 agrall
join:2000-09-29
Tucson, AZ | reply to jmycknshk
Re: Snow Leopard Install Success! said by jmycknshk:after reading some of the comments, i'm surpsised how many of you didn't check compatibility. all the comments about stuff not working: » snowleopard.wikidot.com/check this out if you haven't already. Calgoo Connect not on the list... And doesn't work...  |
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agrall
join:2000-09-29
Tucson, AZ | reply to DoLeMiTe
said by DoLeMiTe:I started the installation and walked away for a bit. It said it would take about 45 minutes to complete. When I came back, it was on the login screen and I checked and I am still on 10.5.8...I'll try again and see what happens. Also I didn't notice the option to do a clean install instead of an upgrade. That happened to me too on the first installation attempt on my Macbook Pro... not sure what happened...
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Nope, I always keep my iMac display brightness at the lowest setting. After doing the 10.5.8 update all of a sudden it would always boot to full brightness, I had seen that I was not the only person experiencing this problem. I would have thought though that installing Snow Leopard would rectify the problem but it has not unfortunately. |
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 Titus PulloI came, I saw, I slept
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said by yanks:My Snow Leopard install went without a hitch but surprisingly it did not fix a bug that happened when I had updated to Leopard 10.5.8, since then my iMac would alway boot with the display at full brightness. It's still doing this even after Snow Leopard, bummer. That's more common than you think. My MBP can't decide to boot nearly dimmed out or at full brightness. Does that jig when waking too. Do you ever have the screen go black when pressing the button to dim the screen? e.g. you've booted (or awakened) the machine and it's full brightness, so you press the button to lower it and instead of the progress bar appearing allowing you to darken the screen the screen instead goes full black when you press the button?
Done the applecare reset(s) dance. The 'fix' was "it's really nothing to worry about."
yeah.
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 HexleyPremium
join:2001-03-12
Hollywood, FL | reply to yanks
said by yanks:Nope, I always keep my iMac display brightness at the lowest setting. After doing the 10.5.8 update all of a sudden it would always boot to full brightness, I had seen that I was not the only person experiencing this problem. I would have thought though that installing Snow Leopard would rectify the problem but it has not unfortunately. Fix for this is to keep your iMac on the Lowest brightness that isn't zero... in other words, 1 notch above it. For whatever reason, 10.5.8 doesn't remember 0 brightness so it defaults. Set it to 1 notch and it'll remember. A fix is on the way. |
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| Thanks so much for the tip! I set the brightness just a drop more than the lowest setting and it works just like you said. Much better. |
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Very smooth install! amazed at how fast my machine acts now! |
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 SKThe member formerly known as CowPremium
join:2001-05-18
Toronto | reply to J E F F
I'm having difficulty keeping up with it -- i.e. stuff's appearing before I expect it to!
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 TearAbiteD'oh
join:2001-07-25
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
kudos:2 | reply to J E F F
c'mon guys, what kind of hardware do you have, and what are you doing that you're seeing such better speed?
i cant see much, if any difference at all on my Mc'Air or iMac.. |
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join:2003-11-30
Minden, NV
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said by J E F F 
I hate going in there - it's a wallet magnet.
[/BQUOTE :Snow Leopard is the #*^%!*$ wallet magnet. I have the last fast PowerPC G4 and now I'm compelled to buy an Intel! I can't even sleep at night knowing I don 't have the best latest system. I feel like I'm back at system 7 again.  Maybe I am??? Oh yeah, with Nehalem and other fast goodies along with quad-core being sooo much faster Jobs has sucked me into at least an early 2009 model worth more than my car.  --
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Things I'm finding on my iMac so far:
Both Safari and Mail open quite a bit faster than with Leopard, especially from a cold boot. It's definitely faster going to sleep and coming out of sleep. Shut down is fast but it was with Leopard also, I really don't find it booting up much faster, seems to be about the same as Leopard. |
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ednj
join:2001-03-09
Hillsborough, NJ | Agreed with all the advantages of SL, but Firefox crashes as it never did before under Leopard. Safari works well and is fast, but I never liked the interface. I hope Mozilla can fix Firefox soon. |
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TearAbiteD'oh
join:2001-07-25
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
kudos:2 | said by ednj:Agreed with all the advantages of SL, but Firefox crashes as it never did before under Leopard. My Firefox runs great UNLESS i try to use the Help menu, then it crashes - otherwise it's rock solid. To fix your problem, make sure you are running the newest version (3.5.2) and try disabling your Add-ins one-by-one until you find the culprit. |
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Titus PulloI came, I saw, I slept
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said by Hexley:said by yanks:Nope, I always keep my iMac display brightness at the lowest setting. After doing the 10.5.8 update all of a sudden it would always boot to full brightness, I had seen that I was not the only person experiencing this problem. I would have thought though that installing Snow Leopard would rectify the problem but it has not unfortunately. Fix for this is to keep your iMac on the Lowest brightness that isn't zero... in other words, 1 notch above it. For whatever reason, 10.5.8 doesn't remember 0 brightness so it defaults. Set it to 1 notch and it'll remember. A fix is on the way. My MBP has done this from day one, and I'm now running 10.5.7
I've been escalated via applecare, and the fix is "don't worry about it"
There are some problems Apple is unable to fix, and I'm fairly sure it's a low-level problem related to the HW interface and power management.
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 RR ConductorHappy 40th AmtrakPremium
join:2002-04-02
Redwood Valley, CA
kudos:1 | reply to J E F F
Well, Windows has the BSOD, it looks like Apple now has the SPOD 
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