I am writing from Apple’s broser Safari today, and the reason is not good news: Opera hangs and crashes, loads pages and stops midway. In other words, it’s completely unusuable. But well, I guess I can work with Safari as well for now.
EDIT: If you need a fix for Opera crashing, follow this link.
What’s happening is the classical OS changeversion problem: the software is not compatible anymore and needs to get updated. Of course, there’s no update when the OS was released just 5 days ago. Surely there will be one for each software pretty soon, but now this is just making my computer a bit too sensible.
The problem: 64bit. There’s software working only on 32bit, such as MultiClutch and PlugSuit, two very important pieces of software for Mac users. Multiclutch has also an extra problem, as it seems the libraries that it uses are not available in 64bit, which means it will take a bit before…
Wait a second, Safari is having problems: the page hangs, all links/buttons become unusuable at times. Writing this post is really becoming hell.
As I was saying, MultiClutch’s author is in troubles because he doesn’t have an easy fix for that piece of software.
This is all for today from the war zone, and I recommend you: wait a month after an OS is released, so the software can get updated first to match the new requirements. Else you’ll have a brick like I have now.
…the publish button is not working. What the…
…Alright, now I am on Firefox… trying to push on publish…
pwnt
LUUUULZ…
funny how the mac commercials always make fun of pc for having compatibility issues XD
I 2nd that guor, pwnt.
though you gotta admit that windows never really made that 32bit to 64bit jump yet. and back then with 16bit to 32bit… painful mess… anybody remember the protected mode 4wd driver?
but they have (i’m running windows 7 RC 64-bit) Microsoft did an excellent job on windows 7, so far I’ve had all of 1 compatibility issue (daemon tools) but already found another program that does the same thing
At least Microsoft has the excuse of everyone making drivers for their OS’s, which means compatibility problems are inevitable. Snow Leopard cut out the PPC code, so in theory, with Apple producing all their own hardware and drivers, there shouldn’t be issues where their own web browser freezes… running on their own OS.
Ah well. In a month, everyone’ll have forgotten about the system issues Snow Leopard had.
I’m a mac user. And I’m going to bash SL. Forgive me here.
Snow Leo’s 64 bit is (almost) a lie. The kernel itself, I believe, is 32 bit. However, while booting if you press [6] and [4] you can boot into 64 bit mode.
It’s a hidden feature that it is hidden that it is hidden.
Yes, it makes sense.
I have 2 mac partitions, so one is running Leo and one is running Snow Leo.
Yes, I’m using ordinary Leo right now.
There’s no problem buying Snow Leo now, but you’re just gonna get screwed for some apps, basically. But overall it’s okay. There are lists for the compatibility issues.
$30 is cheap too. For once I’m not getting it ‘off the boats’ if you know what I mean.
By the way, I haven’t even heard of MultiClutch, and I haven’t ever really needed PlugSuit (after all, it’s not like I’m riding an eva). What does MultiClutch do anyway? Is it something you use for developing the site or something?
The kernel is 64 bit since 10.5 Leopard, though most of the system was still running in 32 bit.
If the kernel wasn’t 64bit it wouldn’t run 64bit apps.
What SnowLeopard did was forcing 64bit.
Guess I shan’t update for a little while then..xD;
HaHa. Get a pc? :p
I got enough PCs to fill a room if I need.