Snow Leopard Fail

Sep 21

Until recently, I have associated Apple products with reliability, power, simplicity and high amount of polish, extended from simply good products to support, maintenance and lifecycle.

Yup, I’ve noticed that no software is perfect, and Apple products are no exception. But somehow I have overlooked minor deficiencies so far because I have been able to meet my goals (which is the only thing that matters in the end) quickly with satisfying end result.

Alas, that was the Good Old Days, i.e. days before the Snow Leopard upgrade.

Now, I really like the idea of no new features, performance tweaks and all that is fine in the whitey cat release. But the amount of crashes is unacceptable. I mean, several crashes a day! Not even Vista or immature Linux distributions crash that often. And yes, I’ve applied the first SL update — it didn’t affect the crash problem.

Hopefully Apple will learn something and tests the release more thoroughly the next time.

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Comments

EdvardM

November 2nd, 2009 at 11:26 PM

Ok, as of 2.11.2009, Snow crashes far less often, but still about once a week I encounter a kernel crash.

In the good ol’ days my PC was stable running Debian, but the mobile phone by Nokia required a boot every now and then.

Now both my game launching system (aka Windows XP) and iPhone are both more stable than the Macbook Pro. Bummer..

Update 10.12.2009: Removing suspicious kernel extensions seems to solve the problem. I removed one audio kernel extensions as well as IntelliType driver
(by MicroSoft). Now it is more stable, let’s see how it goes.

Update 15.12.2009: Really, removing obsolete third-party kernel extensions (32-bit ones) as well as MS drivers.. I’ve
had no single crash! Leopard is stable again, and I was too hasty to blame Apple. Now, is this some evil ploy by MS or what?-)

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