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09-17-2009, 12:26 PM
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Snow Leopard
I did Apple's default Snow Leopard install on both my desktop and laptop day one (I like the new). It went well, even installing via remote disk on the Air which lacks an optical drive. I was especially impressed how the Air update automagically resumed when it lost WiFi connection to the drive a couple times and I had to restart.
However, like with most updates I wasn't getting the performance I really wanted. Enter the clean install. Yeah, massive headache, but MobileMe takes care of a lot of the heavy lifting, downloading PIM data, Keychain and Preferences (including registration info and settings for apps that use them properly -- so I can download Coda for example, drag it into Applications, launch it, and see it's already registered to me, and has all my FTP sites locked and loaded), and my iDisk where I keep copies of all my working files. The results? Snow Leopard *flies*. It's frakken fast, especially at those little, frequent tasks that grind away like launching Finder. I've read that OpenCL and Grand Central will make video rendering and transcoding much faster. I can't wait. Right now they don't multi-core well. Hit those processors and I'll be super happy. 
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09-18-2009, 04:55 PM
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I did the install on top of my Leopard and I'm happy with the performance. You're tempting me to do a clean install just to see how much of a difference I might notice hmmmmm I'll have to think about that. The only thing I've noticed is there is a small lag when I run MS Office 2008 for Mac even with all the updates applied. I also notice when I run Fusion the Mac sides gets a little slower than it used to re-act in Leopard. So I'm waiting for Fusion to put out a newer version and see how everything acts. I'm loving Snow Leopard though the interface is sweet, it didn't mess up all my customizations I did in Leopard like I thought it might. The Expose is pretty cool although I don't use it much. The only thing I was looking forward to was setting up an Exchange account but still haven't been able to do it
 Anyone else here with Snow Leopard and an Exchange account in Mail??
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10-02-2009, 09:28 AM
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Anyone running Mac OS and Windows on a Mac have you ever noticed your temps? Go to Mac apps and Dashboard Widgets by iSlayer and grab istatmenu. It will give you a temp readout on your menubar along with other info. Now check the temps when you're in Mac OS only and then when you're in both OSes. I'm willing to bet it gets crazy freakin' hot which makes sense but it's just a cool observation. When I'm on my Macbook Pro with Mac OS I run a cool 35-45 Celsius(Canada) when I run both OSes that jumps to 94-96 Celsius
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10-02-2009, 11:22 AM
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I don't get those kind of temperature readings, and while it does rise when running Windows, I don't get those kinds of temps. At the most I get around 48C.
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10-07-2009, 09:38 AM
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Yeah I noticed that running just Mac OS by itself for a day in the second half of the day I got to the high temps anyway. I don't know why mine runs so hot I might take it in to the Genius Bar. I know if you work it harder obviously the CPU will heat up, being a laptop the cooling fans are dinky anyway. However while I'm at work it sits on a cooling dock and the fans never run more than 1500-2000 rpm and the temp are pretty steady unless I push it. I'm running both OSes at work. However at home I only run Mac OS and without the cooling dock after maybe an hour the temps will rise to like 94 or 95 and the fans will start going crazy at 6500 rpm and just keep climbing to around 7500 rpm and then after a minute or two the fans will just cut off back to normal speed and the temp will drop to like 60s or 70s range.
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10-13-2009, 12:17 PM
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I set my fan to work at a minimum of 2500 rpm. Yeah it reduces battery life, but I don't lose 1 hour's worth of charge. Maybe 20 minutes or so.
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