AHA!

Im not nuts. Word 08 works fine on my laptop with SL...No prompt for Rosetta.

 

The replacement disk works
My machine seems faster to me now. So that was worth the $25.

 

I am amazed how easy it was to get Mail connected to Exchange. Now I just need to decide if I like Mail better than Entourage.

 

Out of curiosity, which version of Exchange are running SL's mail against? They say 2007 is required but I've been curious if that's just for full functionality.

 

Came in the mail today, probably do a clean install tomorrow.

 

I wonder if it can do RPC over HTTPS. That's how I get my exchange.

 

We outsource our mail to Intermedia. They are 2007.

 

I assume that is what its doing. It's connecting to port 443 at the owa address.

 

I've had 8 kernel panic crashes since installing SL. Not impressed.

 

Yikes! Do you know the root cause?

 

What errors are reported in the console messages app?

 

Do I have to reinstall my apple protection plan disk after doing a clean install!?

 

I"m curious because i'm about to do the clean install... anybody know?

 

you have to reinstall everything. a clean install erases everything on your drive. I don't think you really need that disc it just got some utilities on it. Of course I haven't used one of those since the mac classic days so I don't know for sure.

 

10.6.1 is out! Holla back and let us know if the update fixes any of your problems.

 

^Update installed fine for me. i haven't used SL long enough to find any real problems. Loving the speed boost. Finally this iMac runs like I think it was supposed to.

 

I can't get my ipod touch to restore. I tried upgrading from 3.0 to 3.1 in Itunes 9 and it seems to have bricked my ipod. When I go into recovery mode, it goes through the motions but then comes to Error 21



The error 21 info I found online relates to 10.5.6.

I am running SL.

Any thoughts?

 

I forgot to add that I am running SL 10.6.1, but this also occurred with the previous version.

 

I booted from the disc but got no option for a clean install... How do I do a clean one?

 

nvm. The recovery worked fine on my Windows 7 machine. It seems that it was an SL issue.

 

 

Finally got a chance to install SL.

Couple things just wanted to share...

1) If you plan on doing a wipe of your hard drive, set aside lots of time. For and giggles I did a 7 pass wipe of my hard drive. It said it only needed 5 hrs to complete, but I think it took about 7.

2) The first time I installed SL after doing a clean install, it reported that SL could not complete the installation properly. This was after it already reported that it had completed the installation. This message was reported after I clicked the restart screen from the successful installation screen. So I performed the installation again, this time didn't get any error at the end.

Anyway, all up and running now, but now I have the task of getting all my applications installed and configuring everything again. Fun times.

 

Real men do the Gutmann 35 pass wipe.....twice.

Anyways, is everyone up to 10.6.1 yet? How's it going? Any better? Astro did 10.6.1 solve your kernel panic problem?

 

Still having battery issues with both MBP and MB in the house. Both computers had battery time cut in half, if not more. Kinda ridiculous. I'm thinking of downgrading because the MBP is fairly new at 60 cycles and I barely get 1:25 minutes out of the thing. (Oh to add, I put the battery in my buddy's MBP with 10.5 and it easily gets 2:50 on a full charge. So obviously it's SL.)

Otherwise, I really can't tell the difference in either computers. 10.6 is noticeable faster on the new MB though.

 

 

are you fans always spinning? Is your system hotter than usual? I'd use activity monitor to see if you're having excessive disk activity, cpu usage.

 

At least someone gets my humor.

 

 

If I clean install SL, can I use my time machine backup to restore my applications and settings?

 

^That's the theory

 

Should I trust time machine?

 

Or you could create another partition on your drive, install SL on that. then use the migration assistant to transfer over files and programs from you leopard partition and then once everythings good delete you leopard partition and extend your SL one. I'd trust the migration assistant more than Time machine at transferring files and apps, etc. That's what it's designed for.

 

^I think the migration assistant can work with a Time Machine backup. I've never migrated from Time Machine but I migrated from my mac mini to this imac and was impressed.

 

Marty McFly did...

 

So SL comes with Quicktime X. Does it provide any enhancements over Quicktime 7 Pro? I don't know much about Quicktime X.

 

And the drama continues...

Man, fuck Snow Leopard, this damn OS is pissing me off. Now my battery cannot even hold a charge and says "Service Battery" in my battery indicator. My battery is fairly new at 74 cycles. It randomly shuts off at 50%, too.

Glad I'm not the only one: http://discussions.apple.com/thread....39186&tstart=0

Apple better address this shit fast. I didn't get a new battery only for it to be zapped from a new OS.

 

10.6 = Mac OS X Vista

 

I have that same message on mine, you gotta take your computer in. I bet you hadn't ever noticed that in your system profiler that the battery status was "check battery" before you did the upgrade.

The reason I say this is because for the last year my MBP has been reporting "check battery" status in system profiler, but I never had a chance to take it into the apple store. And after i did the upgrade to SL, the "Service Battery" alert was displayed in the power meter (this alert is a new feature of SL). I think many times people don't know that there's a problem until it gets really bad. Unfortunately in your case it just happened to be when you upgraded.

Get a new batter under warranty if you have the apple care plan, or buy a new one.

FYI, my battery was reporting "check battery" long ago at around 70 or 80 cycle counts as well. They are sony batteries after all.

 

Also, check yoru system logs, perhaps there's something that is hogging up the battery juice. background process trying to do something, getting caughtup and stuck.

 

Every time my system comes back from stand by, it crashes any app that was open. I have to restart all the apps. This is a pain in the ass.