I usually wait until a version jumps up to at least 10.x.2 before upgrading to the latest release, but the nature of Snow Leopard made me jump on a couple days before the 10.6.1 update came out. A release created entirely to optimize the OS? No extra fluff to distract programmers and engineers?

I'll take that gamble... and so far, so good. :)



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Except that Apple as usual has changed enough to make 3rd Party compatibility a mess.

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UR A GUNTHER!

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Maybe you should consider allowing people to select multiple options in the poll. I'm sure many readers also have multiple machines running different versions of OS X.

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Yeah, that may be statistically relevant and interesting. But then, how do you distinguish people with several machines who did upgrade all of them? I guess this simple question is not up the task to get a complete view.


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The version of Geeklog we're running doesn't support multiple answers, so it can't be done.

The next version has some more-complex polls, but I'm not sure if "more than one" multi-choice is one of the options or not.

-rob.

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Maybe it's best to answer it as "what is the OS on your main machine?" I'm sure there are far more users that have one Mac than multiples, and the percentage that don't use one particular machine more often that others is likely statistically insignificant in regards to the data the poll is trying to glean.

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What is the Primary OS you use most?

By: mmnw
Yeah, that may be statistically relevant and interesting. But then, how do you distinguish people with several machines who did upgrade all of them? I guess this simple question is not up the task to get a complete view.

They could be added in as options in the Poll.

- running 2 OS versions 10.3 and 10.4
- running 2 OS versions 10.3 and 10.5
- running 2 OS versions 10.4 and 10.5
- running 2 OS versions 10.3 and 10.6
- running 2 OS versions 10.4 and 10.6
- running 2 OS versions 10.5 and 10.6
- running 3 OS versions 10.3 and 10.4 and 10.5
- running 3 OS versions 10.3 and 10.4 and 10.6
- running 3 OS versions 10.4 and 10.5 and 10.6
and so on.

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+1 to the multiple selection vote.

I am not jumping to SL, as it does not offer me anything new. A few co workers jumped to SL, and are feeling the "pain" as certain things are not working for them. Until everything I use is working (not in beta or alpha) on SL, I think I will stick to L.

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Yeah I'm running multiple versions too, I have 10.2.8 (several...), 10.3.9, 10.4.11 and 10.5.8

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in case yo didn't know it: http://update.omnigroup.com/ has some pretty interesting statistics.

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Snow Leopard has been buggier for me than I remember previous versions being. A sample of bugs I've experienced: 1) Half my widgets have mysteriously "broken" then "repaired themselves", more than once. 2) The cmd-ctrl-d popup dictionary doesn't work in Safari and Mail—but does work in TextEdit and a couple of third-party text editors. 3) In multiple text editors, SL randomly changes the typeface. In mid-sentence! (One developer told me it's happened to him too, and that it's a system problem.) 4) At least one core services animation effect is choppy instead of smooth. One third-party developer told me he's noticed it too, and that his app merely engages the system effect so he has no control over it.

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> "What version of OS X are you running as your main OS?"

Well, *me*, I am running a highly customized and unique version of an OS called "The Consciousness".
Very flexible, complex yet stable.
Haven't rebooted in DECADES...

;)

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Yup, also running "The Consciousness", although having sometimes problems waking up from sleep. Do you have that problem? Might be a haxie that I installed, called 'Unconscious' :P


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I'm happy shelling into Skynet.

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I upgraded to Snow Leopard before I should have. I use a non-Apple mouse with 8 buttons that I have setup to perform various Expose features, like show desktop, show all windows, etc. However, the button programming does not remain throughout the day. By the end of a typical day, half the buttons no longer do what they are set to do in System Prefs (along with other system prefs not working and other Finder bugs), but if I reboot, everything is fine....so, Snow Leopard needs a little more time in the oven before I would recommend anyone switch. Too many (difficult to reproduce) glitches with Finder and System Prefs at this point....I regret upgrading prior to 10.6.2. Next time I will definitely wait for the second bug fix release (or not upgrade at all).

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I'd upgrade, but at least three programs I use daily are broken or handicapped in 10.6. I'm waiting for upgrades or replacements.

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I'm waiting on app updates/upgrades as well. Every other day I seem to find another app which I use regularly that isn't ready yet.

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I'm on 10.6 myself, but to the 3 people so far who've said they're on 10.3, I still think that was the best (Expose being the single most important feature in OSX history for me, and it being the most stable and reliable that I've run). 10.6.1 isn't bad, though.

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I have an iMac G5, and thus I can't run Snow Leopard. I have Photoshop 7 and it won't run on anything beyond Tiger. I have two partitions on my iMac, one 10.4 and one 10.5. I live in 10.5 and 10.4 is there when I want to run Photoshop. I am waiting for the new iMac to come (any day now, hopefully!) so I can move up to Snow Leopard.

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Similar position here. G5 => PowerPC => no 10.6.

Of course, I'll upgrade when I get a new Mac. (Hopefully in the next half-year or so.) But it'll be a big job. I've gone for a Universal Binary every time I've downloaded or upgraded an app in the last year, but there are still plenty of old apps that were PPC-only. And plenty of command-line utilities I compiled myself. (The old "./configure, make, make install" becomes a lot more complex when you need to include two or three architectures!) And some widgets and scripts and plug-ins and droplets and stuff...

In fact, the biggest job will be Cubase. I'm still on Cubase SX, which is PPC-only, so for Intel I need to shell out $BIGDOSH to upgrade to Cubase 5. But I've still got lots of old songs saved with even older versions, which Cubase 5 won't import, so first of all I have to import and re-save them all in Cubase SX. Which is a lot more work than it sounds, given that the importer doesn't work very well, and I've had to recreate some old synth patches, and... Why is life so complicated???

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My work MacBook Pro and my personal Mac mini are are running 10.6. But I also support roughly 700 MacBooks and iBooks, of which about 2/3 are on 10.4 and 1/3 are on 10.5.

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I got my new MBP a week before Snow Leopard came out, but I'm waiting until I have time to do a pros-and-cons argument on it: what do I gain, what do I lose. It seems to me that I've read about a few features disappearing which I would be disappointed to lose, but I don't remember what they are. Since I was working with 10.4 until August, I'm still happy with the new-OS glow of 10.5. (Though the purple nebula graphic finally got on my nerves; I changed that last week. :)



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If SL was supported on my machine I'd upgrade to it. But right now, I'm waiting until the MBP gets updated w/ the new Intel architecture.

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You mean some chip past the Core 2 Duo, right? 'Cause the MBP has been Intel since forever.

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You just need three questions. One for each machine, in order of importance. Your fourth and subsequent machines are of little relevance.

Then present it as four graphs:

[AGGREGATE] ... [MAIN] ... [SECONDARY] ... [TERTIARY]

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Since my G5 iMac will not run Snow Leopard, the poll is rather academic.



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Who are the two people running 10.0 Public Beta?? haha I personally love all my Macs to be up to date with the latest and newest features available for them. It saddens me that my trusty TiBook will forever be stuck with Leopard, but I'm already pushing it using a 7-8 year old Mac anyways. Long live Snow Leopard!

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As it stands, there's no reason to do it. Other than break a lot of things... that's not a reasonable trade for speed when I already have a fast machine, or space, when space is inexpensive.

SL is *full* of bugs, and quite aside from the bugs, there's a very long list of things that no longer work under it.

No, not interested. My system works fine as is. And you know the old engineering adage... if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

But - I do appreciate you folks testing it for me. :)

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Between my lab and my home, I have 16 Macs, and only 9 of them are Intels, not including our two G5 servers. Replacing all the PPCs is in the works, but it won't be happening for some time. By staying with Leopard, I can still use the same software on all. Maybe I should take up a collection... Spare change, anyone?

Greg Shenaut

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haha- 10.0 public beta

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Three machines with 10.6.1 plus a PPC iMac in the kitchen which is maxed at 10.5.8.

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I'm currently on Snow Leopard 10.6.1. Last year I switched to a mac after 7 years of Windows XP and PC usage. I was immediately impressed with Mac OS X.
Up until the release of Snow Leopard I have never upgraded my computer's OS so it was a little scary upgrading from leopard to Snow leopard but the installation went fine without a hitch. Snow Leopard is fast, solid and reliable. 10.6 all the way, baby!

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One should note the bias in this survey: once a new OS comes in, it gets the lion's share of the posted hints, so users of older versions may tend to read the site less often. Therefore it's only natural that the poll is weighted heavily towards 10.6.

This isn't a criticism (it's just a fun poll), mind you; just an observation.

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I will remain on 10.4 forever or until either :

A: Mac brings Classic Back.
B: Word Perfect is rewritten to not need Classic.

I do not want or need any of the new features in anything pass 10.4

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10.6.1 on a MacBook Pro 15" and a Mac mini; 10.5.8 on an iBook G4 14" and a Power Mac G4 (AGP); 10.3.9 on a Bondi Blue iMac, even if I would like to try to upgrade it to 10.4.11.

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Rob - I was tempted to X-mas tree this - lloked like fun. But I went practical.

10.5 @ work
10.4 - 10.5* - 10.6 @ home

*primary

System stability on SL is great - like it much better than Leo. Still leaves room for improvement. MIssing stability for various 3rd Party Apps as per Apple usual changes.

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Yah, we need a multiple selection option. My OS's:

Macbook Pro: 10.6 (also, Windows XP SP3 in Boot Camp...)
Powerbook G4 1.67: 10.5
PowerMac G4 Quicksilver: 10.4, 9.2.2
iMac G3 (a highly updated Flower Power ed): 10.4, 10.3, 9.2.2
PowerMac G4 Sawtooth, and a iMac G3 DVSE: 10.3, 9.2.2
Playstation 3: XMB and Ubuntu 9.04 PPC ;-) (No, not a Mac, but still awesome)

I'd say that 10.3 is the most stable (had my iMac DVSE with 256 MB RAM running for 3 months once), but Tiger is close. Panther is also far faster on the old hardware than Tiger, but many of my essential apps are Tiger-and-up only. Snow Leopard is less buggy compared to PPC Leopard, in my experience, although Intel Leopard was about as stable once it matured. Now if only I could find a startup disk for my rescued Mac SE...

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Macbook Pro(new): 10.6
Macbook Pro(dead) : 10.6
Macbook :10.5
Powerbook G4 1.67: 10.5
Powerbook G4 867 : 10.4
PowerMac G4 533 : Server 10.4
PowerMac G4 1.4 : Server 10.5
Emac : 10.3 eeeeekkkkkkk !

Oh they all have their pro's and con's but got to love Mac OS...;-)


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How can anyone possibly be running the OS X Public Beta? It had an expiration date hard-coded into it. What software could you possibly use on it?

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Yeah, I think it would be better if the question were reworded to ask: "What OS are you using to read this question right now?" or maybe "If you're running Mac OS to read this question, which version are you using?"

Leave it to a bunch of geeks to nitpick over the parameters of the survey, rather than just answering it. lol o_o

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The ONLY reason I have not upgraded to Snow Leopard is because it won't install on my G5. Right now, I cannot justify buying a new machine just to run the new OS.

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