received today. Just installed. Completed within 50 minutes. Followed the easy instructions and crossed my fingers that the upgrade did not lose any info. Dont panic when the screen goes black about 15 minutes into the upgrade. It then reboots.
Installation was fine, and so far applications are running much better than under Leopard. Safari, iTunes and iPhoto all load almost instantly on my early 2008 Black MacBook.
However, there is ONE BIG PROBLEM! Torrents are almost dead. I normally run Vuze, and have been lucky to get more than 1-2 k/bs when trying to download files with high numbers of seeds. Thinking this might be a Vuze problem I've downloaded uTorrent, which is slightly better but is still really struggling. The other really odd thing is that when using either program, web surfing in Safari or trying to connect to MSN is a no go, even though Vuze or uTorrent is downloading at a few k/bs. VERY ANNOYING!
On my Mac Pro (v1,1 dual Xeon 3Ghz) I have a strange website issue: being a Pom, I often read the newspaper websites from the UK (and also because I like actual news rather than info about cats up trees in Timaru...!) and often The Times website. They have comment sections on the stories which I write in sometimes. Safari 4 before SL - all good. Safari 4 after SL - comments have vanished, although page layout looks fine. Comments are still there somewhere, because if I look at the website on my iPhone I can see them!
On my MBP: the Safari icon in the dock was not automatically replaced with the new 64 bit Safari 4 and so would not launch until I manually deleted it and dragged the new one from the Apps folder.
That's it so far - oh, also had some ECC errors on one RAM module but I do not know if they were there before or not as I had not looked for a wee while.
I did a "clean" install and then restored my apps/prefs etc. from a Time Machine backup. No issues other than iStat not working and they've promised an update very soon.
Very pleased that my wireless _finally_ behaves correctly, and the machine actually shuts down properly now rather than needing a forced power-off every other time. Only using an old early-2008 plastic macbook, but it feels a bit snappier. (Not so sure about Apples deliberate disabling of 64-bit kernel on Macbooks though, irrespective of them meeting the requirements).
Startup 39s, shutdown 4.9s. Both comparable to my WinXP Desktop machine.
I recommend the free "AppFresh" program which checks all installed applications for updates and installs them if wanted. It saves a lot of mucking around.
aperfectcircle: However, there is ONE BIG PROBLEM! Torrents are almost dead. I normally run Vuze, and have been lucky to get more than 1-2 k/bs when trying to download files with high numbers of seeds. Thinking this might be a Vuze problem I've downloaded uTorrent, which is slightly better but is still really struggling. The other really odd thing is that when using either program, web surfing in Safari or trying to connect to MSN is a no go, even though Vuze or uTorrent is downloading at a few k/bs. VERY ANNOYING!
I got something down with Transmission at ~600KB/sec, no issues there. Check that it hasn't reset the preferences and is now trying to use a port that isn't open on your router.
Apple have certainly caused some confusion with the 64 bit v 32 bit kernel thing, judging from the web chatter.
My Mac Pro dual Xeon 3.0 (v1,1) seems to have only 32 bit EFI capability so I don't think it will load a 64 bit kernel (although I admit that is slightly more complex than my comfort zone) but as far as I can tell, unless I plan on installing an amount of RAM that would cost as much as a small car, it won't make the slightest difference.
It zips along pretty quick with everything - I can't really say that I expect speed to be an issue for my workflow any time before I replace the machine in 3 years or so.
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