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Lew · 09-09-2009, 21:17

Picked up my copy from PC World today. Installation was nice and painless on my MacBook and it's nice and fast.

I did have a problem installing it on my Mac Mini though as the optical drive has become very finicky just lately and it wouldn't mount the DVD. Luckily it seems you can make an image of the DVD in Disk Utility and restore the image to a partition on an external HD and it'll happily install, which saved me a load of faffing around with target disk mode. I wasn't expecting huge improvements in speed as it's an older 1.5GHz Core Solo model (so no 64-bit goodness) but it's still noticeably faster than Leopard.

09-09-2009, 21:17	#21
Lew Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Fleet, Hampshire Age: 54 Services: VIP50, TiVo Posts: 2,869	Re: Snow Leopard: First Impressions Picked up my copy from PC World today. Installation was nice and painless on my MacBook and it's nice and fast. I did have a problem installing it on my Mac Mini though as the optical drive has become very finicky just lately and it wouldn't mount the DVD. Luckily it seems you can make an image of the DVD in Disk Utility and restore the image to a partition on an external HD and it'll happily install, which saved me a load of faffing around with target disk mode. I wasn't expecting huge improvements in speed as it's an older 1.5GHz Core Solo model (so no 64-bit goodness) but it's still noticeably faster than Leopard.