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From : iwantgizm0s
Added: Aug 29, 2009
I got Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. I was impatient and got it at the Apple Store on the day when Snow Leopard became first available. I've installed Snow Leopard and I have my kpop tunes and videos playing happily on my Macbook. For this video, you can see what you'll get in the retail box. The retail box is really thin like for a music CD but it's a cardboard box. Well, you will primarily want the installation DVD and therefore the packaging doesn't really matter. Also, the one thing that caught my attention of the few new things in Snow Leopard was the new QuickTime X. When I heard of the new QuickTime X, I was wondering if I could still use QuickTime 7 and yes you can. And so that is what is also demonstrated in this quick video. You can upgrade from Leopard to Snow Leopard as well as upgrade from Tiger to Snow Leopard. The user software agreement does say you have to have Leopard in order to upgrade to Snow Leopard. Or you have to get the more expensive bundled version of Snow Leopard/iLife/iWork to go from Tiger to Snow Leopard. You can erase your harddrive of your existing Leopard/Tiger by using Disk Utility and install Snow Leopard as completely new also. I have two partitions on my Macbook's harddrive where one drive is the Macintosh HD and the other drive is my Data HD. The partition has to be a GUID Partition Table which it should already be if you partitioned the harddrive into two (or more) drives under Leopard. I backed up both drives using Carbon Copy to make exact image copies of the drives for just in case if the Snow Leopard installation failed. Backing up took the longest time to do. I then had to turn off the FileVault encryption. I'm one of those people who've used File Vault. (If you have problems turning off FileVault, then try using DiskWarrior if you have Tiger - that's the problem I had when I previously moved on from Tiger. If you're having problems turning off FileVault under Leopard, then you might be stuck and have to back up your home directory and then manually rebuild your home directory.) Then, I began the Snow Leopard installation. It took about 45 minutes or so to install Snow Leopard. And it all booted up fine in Snow Leopard. My custom boot screen and my wallpaper were all in place. The wi-fi settings worked and I had internet. My dock icons looked the way that I had them set up. Everything looked fine. The two software programs that I was worried that may have problems under Snow Leopard were Parallels and EyeTV. Both worked for me, but I needed to upgrade to at least Parallels 4 and EyeTV 3.1.3b1 (5275). I like using the OnyX maintenance software, but OnyX is not yet available for Snow Leopard. The Titanium forums for OnyX says to wait for next version of OnyX and that the Leopard version of OnyX does not work with Snow Leopard. Othewise, it looks like all of my other software works under Snow Leopard, but I'm guessing there may be a stray program that I may still have to upgrade. I don't think there are any awful real problems in running Snow Leopard for me. Hopefully, I would guess Snow Leopard will install and work fine for you too. Thanks for watching my video and reading this review. cheers, ruel P.S. Make sure that the box for QuickTime 7 is checked in the customize area during the Snow Leopard installation if you want both QuickTime X and QuickTime 7. Also, here is a link for tweaking QuickTime X including to have QuickTime X autoplay as a default: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=775514 Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
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