Snow Leopard has lunged upon me, and I’m getting into it. What I was stupid enough to overlook was the complete and total lack of 10.6 compatible drivers for my M-Audio Firewire Solo (wish I had an Apogee Ensemble, but I’m not made of money). Regardless, I followed some sort of hackish-workaround found here, and it worked, damn well I might add. Although I did have to uninstall/reinstall the actual drivers/program for it to work.
Now for the 2 hour process that is installing Logic. I’m very impressed with the amount of free space available from this installation. It told me I had 79GB of my 80GB hard drive. I read somewhere that this is actually Apple using the “guy from marketing” scale to measure the space. Whatever, my programs don’t seem larger, so that’s good.
And everything is So. Damned. Fast.
I’m still going to make good with uploading Nothing Fancy, but I need Logic for that. It’ll happen, quite soon.
October 1st, 2009 at 4:00 PM
I’ve heard a lot of buzz, (mostly “ehn”) about 10.6. So much “ehn”ing going on, that people don’t really talk about the speed boost.
DO you find it quicker? I’m thinking about going and picking up a new internal hard disk and installing 10.6. My macbook is 80gigs, and I’m pretty sick that my iTunes and Logic libraries are external. (And when I add in the 50gigs of Ableton Live… hmmm… i’d love to get away from the tether of my external.)
So… fast! Good to hear. Breathe some life into this not so old, but definitely not new (3 yr old) Macbook.
October 1st, 2009 at 10:59 PM
Did we buy our Macbooks at the same time? Is yours a MB Pro?
Anyway, yes, startup is definitely much better, and because 10.6 is all Intel, it shaved off about 6-7 gigs, I believe, which was nice. I have Logic installed with no loops no sound effects (basically, the garageband content as well as the jam pack instruments) and I have 47GB left.