[OSX-Users] Re: Upgrading to Snow Leopard

[David Tarrant]

It might be worth noting that while Snow Leopard is 64bit ready, it  
doesn't boot the 64 bit kernel by default. Thus you will not be  
getting the speed ups which may result from the change to 64 bit.

http://macperformanceguide.com/SnowLeopard-64bit.html

Haven't tried it yet myself as i'm not with my snow leopard mac at the  
moment.

Dave T

On 7 Sep 2009, at 12:25, David Millard wrote:

> I've upgraded laptops at the same time, but even so I haven't  
> noticed much change.
>
> I am having an odd problem with Firefox though - it seems to stutter  
> or pause every few seconds (most noticeable when watching video, but  
> its also true for things like typing in forms and other  
> interactions). Safari is fine.
>
> Its quite disconcerting if you click on a link and there is a 1  
> second pause before anything happens. Anyone else seen this?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave
>
>
> On 7 Sep 2009, at 12:03, Nick Gibbins wrote:
>
>> First impression: very little has changed.
>>
>> Second impression: every problem I've had so far has been related  
>> to either the indexing for Spotlight, or with multiple/corrupt fonts.
>>
>> (at least it's now past the stage where Finder hung fifteen seconds  
>> after startup, and I can now run both Word and Powerpoint.  
>> Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 still crashes hard)
>> -- 
>> Dr Nicholas Gibbins                                     nmg at ecs.soton.ac.uk
>> Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group     http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~nmg/
>> School of Electronics and Computer Science         tel: +44 (0) 23  
>> 80598879
>> University of Southampton                          fax: +44 (0) 23  
>> 80592865
>
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> University of Southampton
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