Should I upgrade to Snow Leopard, or is it better to stay with Leopard? I need DTP to remain robust and dependable.
Jeff
Many of us report that running DTPO on Snow leopard is a problem-free environment. I personally am running 10.6.2 and PB8 on a Mac Mini (early 2009) and haven’t experienced anything untoward (except the capriciousness of this forum software…)
No Snow Leopard-DTPO problems over here. 10.6.2 and PB8. The only annoyance (because it takes some twiddling) is the new setup in SL for managing and accessing services.
Hmmmm… Has Apple provided help or assistance…? I don’t have time to be annoyed. Maybe I should stick with Leopard.
Hi Jeff,
I wouldn’t worry about annoyances WRT Services. Apple simply developed an new and (in my eyes) a more useful way of providing and presenting Services.
They are now pretty much application-specific in that when you are in Mail, for instance, and you click on Mail > Services, only the services applicable show up. You don’t have a full list with 80% of them grayed out.
The “fiddling” comes with the ability to somewhat customize Services and this is accessible by opening System Preferences, clicking on the Keyboard (!) prefs pane, then clicking on the Services tab. This is where you can add or subtract Services that you want or don’t.
For instance I have installed a couple of 3rd party packages of Services (Text Soap for one) that add such a long list of things that I don’t use, so I uncheck them. Text Soap does have a few extremely useful Services (Convert to word caps, convert to lower case, convert to Roman Numerals…) that makes it worthwhile for me.
Hope this helps!
Thanks so much, Tod. That really helps. And let me wish you all the good things in the coming year – health, joy, giving, receiving… and please pass that on to Bill deVille if you catch him on the road.
Jeff
While I may see him on the road, I’ll never catch him. His roadster goes a lot faster than my really old RAV4.
And wishing you the same!
I just redid my machine starting with a shiny new hard drive. I don’t know if it is the clean install of everything or OS 10.6.2 or a combination of both but my machine has never worked better.
A late 2006 17" MacBook Pro.