Comments on: Mac OS X Stats: 12/2009

By: Max Dominik Weber

Max Dominik Weber — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:04:10 +0000

It seems that I fit well into your description of Coda users: I ordered Snow Leopard on day two. Also I wouldn’t want to work with Leopard anymore, because my server app is almost twice as fast, and doesn’t deadlock, since it can manage clients with Grand Central Dispatch. (I don’t think I’m very good at programming threaded apps.)

Oh, and how about a new statistic for march? I’d like to see how much it changed. Unison and/or CandyBar stats would be cool, too.

By: lukas

lukas — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:15:18 +0000

I’m very happy to see so many ppc and 10.4 user – that is my configuration as well and I’m still missing real reasons to upgrade – everything works just fine. Sometimes slow, OK, but works – compared to machines of my friends (intel/10.5 etc). I’m quite often asked to sort out some of their problems which I don’t know. 10.4.11 is raelly GREAT build, clean and tuned. I’m definetely going to stick to it, till the wheels comes off!
I hope and pray CODA is not going to drop 10.4. support in coming versions!
(You can understand this as a question and if it would be answered, I would be very happy – Thanks!)

By: bob therieau

bob therieau — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:02:49 +0000

The Leopards won’t run on my old hardware, which is running okay right now. A new Macbook Pro later this spring and a processor upgrade this summer should let me have four versions in the house running at once. Whee!

By: Pope

Pope — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:30:14 +0000

Staying with Tiger on my MBP because Photoshop 7 won’t work on anything after, and I can’t afford any Adobe upgrades for some time.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:22:56 +0000

For the 10.4 machine, it’s running some old OS9 program that gets used a few times a year but it’s vital. For the 10.5 machine, it has a pile of audio cards and software that I can’t afford to replace.

By: Dwayne Schnell

Dwayne Schnell — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:23:44 +0000

On a MBP, not upgrading just because I don’t want to deal with possible problems since my hard drive is a mess – though I suppose it’s a good reason to better organize and clean up my drive. Also don’t want to take the time to do it… “if it’s not broke, don’t fix it”.

By: David

David — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 02:11:41 +0000

I have 10.4.11 running on a PowerMac G4-450 Sawtooth and an iMac snow. I haven’t upgraded these two, because, well, I can’t — at least not without upgrading the hardware, and if I’m gonna do that, might as well replace the hardware. Unfortunately, that’s not in the immediate budget plans (especially since these two boxes do just fine without an upgrade with what I’m running on them). There you have it!

By: Jeremiah

Jeremiah — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:13:58 +0000

I’m running 10.6 on two 2009 MacBook Pro’s, and two 2008 iMacs. I also have 24 2008 iMac’s running 10.5, as well as four 2007 MacBook Pro’s running 10.5.

For those reticent to go from 10.5 to 10.6, I have zero problems with 10.6. I use my machine (2009 MBP 10.6) for Photoshop, Premiere, Encore, Final Cut, Motion, Illustrator, and Compressor. The only thing I noticed going from 10.5 to 10.6 was a MASSIVE speed boost.

- I’ve had no issues of any kind with 10.6 aside from a scanner software problem that was remedied with VueScan
- I realize that not everyone has newer tech like I do (I run a college computer lab) so my history might not be the same as yours.

For those with Snow Leopard issues, or who are sticking with Leopard – Snow Leopard should have been a patch for Leopard. It fixes some serious issues Leopard had (Memory leaks, etc). If you’re having an issue with Snow Leopard, did you do a clean install of it, or did you “upgrade” the computer to it? In my 20+ years of computer tech support, no OS upgrade ever does a 100% great job on it – and that includes Windows and OS X.

By: Jesse C

Jesse C — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:42:55 +0000

PageMaker. At work the Macs still need to be on 10.4 because we have thousands of old PageMaker files that we (rarely) need to get access to. But when we do, the import feature on InDesign just won’t cut it, so we need to turn to Classic and PageMaker.

I’m sure when CS5 forces our hand, all the files we will ever need will be updated by then.

By: Bill B

Bill B — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:37:17 +0000

I have Snow Leopard sitting on my desk, ready to install….again. I ordered it and had it delivered the day it was released, and I have never been more disappointed with any Mac OS release than I have been with this one. I installed it to find that my copies of Word and Excel 2003 do not work right with it….there was an issue with the system logging me out then back in when I selected “save” with either of them. Of course, when I was logged out, all my work that hadn’t been saved was lost. So I downgraded back to 10.5 (Unison 1.8.1 was weird with 10.6, too…some sort of artifact in the group window that looked like a blank document icon.)

This past weekend I installed 10.6 on a second internal hard drive, downloaded and installed all the updates, then restarted, to be greeted by either a blank grey screen, or the apple screen with the spinning clock-like symbol that just kept spinning and spinning. There was no progress from that point. I have researched these issues on Apple’s site, and this weekend I will probably try again, but I can’t help thinking this may be Apple’s version of Vista. (I hope this wasn’t too negative for you!)