Snow Leopard sucks

I upgraded my MacBook Pro (15” Santa Rosa) to Snow Leopard last weekend, and I’m really unhappy with it. It’s extremely buggy. I’m experiencing the following problems:

When I installed, I backed up my system to an external disk with Carbon Copy Cloner, performed a clean install. I then installed iLife & iWork, installed all updates, then used Migration Assistant to copy my user data over. No applications or settings were migrated.

For what was supposed to be a “no bugs” release, this is extremely disappointing.

2009/09/20
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Video problems for me too on my black macbook 2GHZ.

Also, I found too many applications were crashing, such as Office 2004 & Adobe CS3. Top it off with no driver support for my scanner, which worked perfectly in Leopard.

I too cloned my hard drive, re-installed leopard, then started over.

Jeff
2009/10/05

I clean installed snow leopard on a dual core 2.66 mac pro, with 7gigs of ram. Video playback is choppy it freezes, the audio continues on while the picture freezes. This includes quicktime 10 and 7. Adobe premier and After Effects CS4. Fire Fox and Safari both run buggy. Forget about youtube as the video nightmare continues. Social networking sites are also a nightmare. When I type a response I have to wait 20 seconds for each character to actually appear on screen. The same is true with my yahoo and gmail accounts. My favorite glitch is that when I hit restart the power light is lit, but the screen remains black. I am forced to shut down using the power button If I make the mistake of restarting instead selecting shutdown from the menu bar.. It is entirely possible that I am doing something wrong, but I believe the truth of the matter is Snow Leopard has turned my MacPr into a $4,000 paper weight. I plan to reinstall Leopard until Apple irons out the kinks or provides me with a way to resolve these problems. This upgrade has cost me too much time and money as is.

eyebore
2009/10/19

I am having stability issues with Leopard to. I transferred no Applications, only data. Many Applications freeze up (Safari, Firefox, Final Cut, etc…). The whole system stalls periodically.

Any ideas for how to fix this? I bought this macbookPro this summer (first mac) and am not happy with its performance.

Jeff M
2009/10/23

Snow Leopard does suck. Its like Vista for PC’s. I am so sorry that I upgraded, so many bugs Oh and now my email doesn’t send anymore. What next?

dawson
2009/10/29

I had major issues with network connections and Safari also had problems with Plug ins like Adobe Flash. The Apple forums are filled with complaints and the idiots on Apple forums blame DNS servers and third party software even though nobody had the issues before upgrading to Snow Leopard. I myself went back to leopard. Apple really needs to allow public beta testing on OS before a major release.

John S
2009/11/02

As IT at a University I’ve done lot’s of upgrades and clean installs of SL. All have gone well with none of the problems you’ve mentioned. AFAIC, this is by far the best upgrade Apple has released.

LJC
2009/11/04

I clean installed on a MacBook and mac mini
both have network issues or something.
Windows machines fine on same network.
Tide is turning Microsoft doing better apple
making mistakes. I reinstalled leopard problems
solved!

John s
2009/11/06

do NOT upgrade to SL if you are an adobe user…period

coomaraswamee
2009/11/29

Snow Leopard is very unstable. I have a 3.06 GHz Intel Core Duo w/4 GB DDR2 SDRAM. Should be fine for this OS. Oh and not for nothing but I’ve been a mac user since I was in my early thirties (That would be 1986 for who ever is keeping score). It is unstable across the board. Apple software is not exempt. iMovie just crashed. Safari crashes everyday. It is just unstable. Why aren’t others complaining?

Dennis
2009/12/03

My issue with snow leopard is similar to the above. It’s buggy for me, like a ghosting of the pointer sticks in the top left screen. If I leave the computer on to render things over night, when I get back the next day the system is froze. This could be a drive thing related to my RAID, but it didn’t happen when I used old leopard. Lost a whole day and overnight of FCP rendering because I had to force restart the computer.

The big issue I have is that QuickTime 7 won’t let you operate multiple windows. When I open 50 windows that need to be exported to the same codec, in old leopard I just hit APPLE E for each window and minimize, then walk away while it cooks. Now I have to sit there and babysit each one. That’s no fun.

Also uploading clips through Safari has changed. If I had a folder where I upload clips from, I would be able to return to the same folder easily through Safari. Snow leopard take you back to the root drive level every time, and then I have to navigate to my folder of clips each time. It doesn’t sound like a big deal when you do it once, but when you do it all damn day it’s really annoying.

I want to go back to old leopard. It was much more efficient. 64 bit is cute, but not at the expense of my highly efficient productivity of mundane tasks.

Also couldn’t get Epson print drivers to work, and there’s a bunch of other stuff like that.

Joe
2009/12/11

yhea!! Mine just suck all the harddrive, and turns out to bee slower. it is also 2.66 15 inch.
The most power full memory using soft wear I have is Adobe CS4 master collection……..only!!!!!!!!.

it has been to many complains Apple have to do something. :D

suckmytralla mydingdingdong
2010/03/28

FCS has been jacked since snow leopard. Constant crashes. Everything is buggy on my mac pro. Our video company relies heavily on our machines working correctly, this has been a major let down. Couldn’t get our printer to work, image capture hardly ever works, motion freezes up, final cut freezes up, compressor is slower than before, even safari runs slower than before. We upgraded because apple made it sound so sweet. Bad choice.

Andrew
2010/03/31

Since installing Snow Leopard on my MacMini with 2 GHz Intel Cor 2 duo, 2 GB 667 mHz DDR2 SDRAM. I’m having significant trouble maintaining my internet connection via AirPort. It won’t automatically connect and drops the connection often. I see the pinwheel of death all the time. Also, Time Machine bombs all the time and I haven’t been able to backup for months. I’m about ready to dump this system and ask Apple for my money back.

Tedshred
2010/04/11

Lots of trouble, first it didn’t recognize my iphone. Then printer drivers. Now preview just totally sucks, there is no way to skip thru an audio track like before. I cannot download anything from Microsoft either, whole reason for getting a new computer was to stream movies with my Netflix subscription. Bad news, Silverlight will not only refuse to download, Microsofts site is completely jammed up on my browser…

Patrick
2010/07/20

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