Snow Leopard Upgrade
Well I finally bit the bullet and performed the Snow Leopard upgrade on 3 machines – my apple mac laptop and two others. I think I really held back on upgrading because I wanted to make sure that all of my software would work with the new version. But as time goes by it seems that most third party programs are coming into compliance.
Basically, the installation went quite smoothly. Each computer took about an hour – although I didn’t time it exactly. The newest Macbook Pro – which belongs to a family member, had no issues at all. I put the disk in, set it to install and walked away. The computer restarted on it’s own and when I got back I just signed in and was good to go – well, almost. Since the packaged disks have come out the Snow Leopard operating system has a new version. Automatically, Software Update kicked in and showed me a message that there was new software for my machine. I installed this which involved another reboot and then Software Update ran again – showing me that I had a performance update to install. After one last shut down everything was up and running.
The only inconvenience here was not having use of the laptop for some time. Compared to Windows – Mac OSX is a piece of cake!
The iMac upgrade also had no glitches. Again, there was the subsequent rebooting to bring everything up to date.
Finally on my older intel Apple MacBook Pro – I had a few issues. The installation went fine but when I came back to the machine, it appeared that it had not restarted. The screen was black. Not knowing what to do, I hit the power button a few times. Finally, the apple logo came up with the little round timer thing showing that the machine is working. But then a black screen again. Upon closer examination I saw that the screen, in fact, was dimmed – not off. I just adjusted the brightness with the keyboard and now I could see the screen. I then was able to log in and Software Update did the remaining update.
This issue seemed a little odd but thankfully was easily resolved.
So, in the end, my Snow Leopard upgrade was successful. I will now do a little exploring and report back with some of the new features that I am learning about.
Finally, just a note that the SN disk can obviously be purchased from Apple.com but there is a bit of a discount to be had at Amazon.com, on the single user version
