I typically install a new OS on a spare partition and bang on it a couple of weeks. I'm in the Apple Developer program though so this makes things a bit easier to do, as well as to provide feedback, but I see no reason why anyone else couldn't do the same. Once I'm comfortable that there are no major gotchas, I just wipe, install, and then restore the bits I want on the new OS. I agree, the folks who wait for months (years?) are just torturing themselves for the low low price of $29 dollars
I'd just use SuperDuper to back up the HDD to an external (bootable) USB drive before upgrading. If I ever need to boot back into Snow Leopard, after upgrading to Lion, I can still do it
I hope this doesn't mean they are not intending to fix the Wi-Fi problems being experienced by 2011 iMacs ? I guess with 2010 iMacs they released a firmware update, so maybe it will have to be an eventual firmware fix for the new models too.
It's your choice of course, but I always wonder why anyone does this (waits). it's not like the bugs and glitches in a new version of OS-X are really ever *that* bad. This is one of the better ones, but even the worst updates ever are only really bad news for a tiny fraction of users and if it's a serious bug it's usually fixed within a week.
I used to feel the same way you do, and I used to upgrade on the first day etc. Then when 10.6.5(?) came out, it introduced a bizarre wifi problem, that made my connection erratic and caused the wifi signal to drop out constantly.
I spent weeks (literally tens of hours) trying to fix this. I went to the Genius bar twice, rolled back the operating system to an earlier dot release etc. The Apple Support forums were filled with folks having the same issue trying hundreds of different supposed "fixes". It was probably the most painful experience I've gone thru on a Mac.
Apple eventually fixed it, (can't remember if it took until the next release?) but after that nightmarish experience I pretty much vowed to let each significant release percolate in the market for a week or two before I upgrade.
I didn't need Mission Control last week, so another week ain't gonna kill me. (Whereas the 10.6.5 wifi bug nearly did...)
Wasn't 10.4.10 and 10.4.11 released after Leopard (10.5) was released?
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I'd be very surprised if there is another dot update for Snow Leopard in the pipeline. Those who are hoping for this should prepare themselves for the possibility of it not happening.
It's your choice of course, but I always wonder why anyone does this (waits). it's not like the bugs and glitches in a new version of OS-X are really ever *that* bad. This is one of the better ones, but even the worst updates ever are only really bad news for a tiny fraction of users and if it's a serious bug it's usually fixed within a week.
Pretty much all the bugs I've encountered so far are minor video glitches and silly stuff that doesn't matter, with the exception of a giant privacy hole that has been introduced in Safari 5.1 and that's a "design choice" and unlikely to be fixed at all. Especially since no one seems to have noticed it yet or cares about it so far.
Maybe you could tell us about that hole in Safari so we can take you seriously. The only thing I noticed (Safari 5.1 for Snow Leopard) is that it's not blocking cookies - I have it set to block all cookies, but it's accepting them anyway.
Immediately after installing this update, having left the room for a couple minutes, when I returned my MacBook Pro seemed half asleep (the sleep light by lid latch was solidly grey; the screen was black; nothing could wake the machine; no external monitor showed anything). No amount of power cycling, magsafe power pulling, battery pulling, SMC (System Management Controller) resetting, target disc mode keypressing, could shake this state. I appear to now have a brick instead of a MacBook Pro, apparently thanks to this update.
Unbelievable. I tried leaving the power cord unconnected and running the battery down to nearly but not quite nothing. Then it started up (still without the power cord) as if it hadn't just freaked me out for several hours.
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I typically install a new OS on a spare partition and bang on it a couple of weeks. I'm in the Apple Developer program though so this makes things a bit easier to do, as well as to provide feedback, but I see no reason why anyone else couldn't do the same. Once I'm comfortable that there are no major gotchas, I just wipe, install, and then restore the bits I want on the new OS. I agree, the folks who wait for months (years?) are just torturing themselves for the low low price of $29 dollars
I'd just use SuperDuper to back up the HDD to an external (bootable) USB drive before upgrading. If I ever need to boot back into Snow Leopard, after upgrading to Lion, I can still do it
It's your choice of course, but I always wonder why anyone does this (waits). it's not like the bugs and glitches in a new version of OS-X are really ever *that* bad. This is one of the better ones, but even the worst updates ever are only really bad news for a tiny fraction of users and if it's a serious bug it's usually fixed within a week.
I used to feel the same way you do, and I used to upgrade on the first day etc. Then when 10.6.5(?) came out, it introduced a bizarre wifi problem, that made my connection erratic and caused the wifi signal to drop out constantly.
I spent weeks (literally tens of hours) trying to fix this. I went to the Genius bar twice, rolled back the operating system to an earlier dot release etc. The Apple Support forums were filled with folks having the same issue trying hundreds of different supposed "fixes". It was probably the most painful experience I've gone thru on a Mac.
Apple eventually fixed it, (can't remember if it took until the next release?) but after that nightmarish experience I pretty much vowed to let each significant release percolate in the market for a week or two before I upgrade.
I didn't need Mission Control last week, so another week ain't gonna kill me. (Whereas the 10.6.5 wifi bug nearly did...)
I'd be very surprised if there is another dot update for Snow Leopard in the pipeline. Those who are hoping for this should prepare themselves for the possibility of it not happening.
It's your choice of course, but I always wonder why anyone does this (waits). it's not like the bugs and glitches in a new version of OS-X are really ever *that* bad. This is one of the better ones, but even the worst updates ever are only really bad news for a tiny fraction of users and if it's a serious bug it's usually fixed within a week.
Pretty much all the bugs I've encountered so far are minor video glitches and silly stuff that doesn't matter, with the exception of a giant privacy hole that has been introduced in Safari 5.1 and that's a "design choice" and unlikely to be fixed at all. Especially since no one seems to have noticed it yet or cares about it so far.
Maybe you could tell us about that hole in Safari so we can take you seriously. The only thing I noticed (Safari 5.1 for Snow Leopard) is that it's not blocking cookies - I have it set to block all cookies, but it's accepting them anyway.
Both Snow Leopard and Safari were up to date before this update.
I did all the permission stuff, used Onyx to cleanup...
Weird.