Anyone install snow leopard and not notice a battery drainage?

seems like battery life is going twice as fast for everyone

My battery life appears to be the same if anything. I do know that after I first installed SL that it chewed up battery life with a new spotlight index and a Time Machine backup.
Do you have any peripherals attached?

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    There are ways to minimize, mitigate, and help avoid a lot of problems.
    Bootable backups.
    Zeroing a drive twice before using, and format it with SL DVD Apple Disk Utility for sure.
    Even a clean install should import old apps without having to reauthorize.
    If you must do an upgrade, do it from the SL DVD, after repairing the drive and be sure to use the SL version of Alsoft Disk Warrior (4.2).
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    10% is still too many. Yes, it is more sensitive to RAM and hard drive errors, doesn't like some controllers; most ext hdd cases; and enough software to make for test-only status. And it only IDs some known incompatible applications, drivers, extensions, etc and does not remove even those always in best manner.
    Plus, there are problems with the new Rosetta and the cache files it now uses. So some apps and plug-ins will cause more trouble. Not all are ready. Good reason to hold off for the months it takes.
    Other devices act different as far as on/off behavior.
    (Migrating from G5s to Mac Pro can cause all kinds of problems, weird behavior, sluggish system, and why anyone that went down that road was strongly recommended to NOT use Migration Assistant for any of their applications, and to ONLY do clean/fresh installs of any apps. If you skipped that day, didn't read the Guide to M.A., or didn't want to do fresh installs then, your system could have been on borrowed time. If you did do clean install of applications, great.
    Installing SL can result in a corrupt directory - I think and it "seems" to be happening, but no real proof, just gut feeling and instinct (underlying file system problem? weak sectors that pre-existed waiting to happen?).
    Remember all the "there just aren't a lot of 64-bit drivers" for Vista and XP? it's come home to roost.
    ... my guess is not enough incense and offerings. To hop into TimeMachine and SuperDuper backup images and pull the 1TB for another day (week, month, year).

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    My Bluetooth disappeared from my MacBook. How do I reinstall?
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    I installed snow leopard and now videos on my Xfinity home page won't play

    You may be in the same boat as me.
    I deliberately bought a refurb Feb 2011 MacBook Pro, because it would have originally shipped with Snow Leopard. I have to run an application for my job, which does not run under Lion.
    Unfortunately, Apple is now upgrading all Snow Leopard machines, before selling them as refurbs. I purchased a legal copy of Snow Leopard, and have tried various downgrade solutions that I found posted on the net, without success. No matter what I do, it always goes into "three beep mode" after trying to install Snow Leopard.
    The latest development came this evening, while I was talking to the "geniuses" at Apple. Apparently, there is now a firmware revision that loads the first time you run Software Update under Lion, and it locks the machine so that it can't revert to Snow Leopard.
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    Just installed snow leopard and can't open any of my word docs?

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    I just installed Snow Leopard and my Address Book now has only a very small percentage of the contacts I had. Is there any way to recover them? I'm ashamed to say I had not backed up this info. Thanks for any help!

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    AddressBook-v22.abcddb
    AddressBook.data
    AddressBook.data.previous
    Configuration.plist
    Images folder
    lastImport.plist
    MailRecents-v4.abcdmr
    Metadata folder
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  • HT1386 I installed Snow Leopard and have the latest version of iTunes. However, when I connect my iPhone, it charges and iPhoto opens, but iTunes doesn't seem to recognize the iPhone. It simply doesn't appear in the left column. What gives?

    I installed Snow Leopard and have the latest version of iTunes. However, when I connect my iPhone 4S, it charges and iPhoto opens, but iTunes doesn't seem to recognize the iPhone. It simply doesn't appear in the left column. What gives?

    http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1591

  • I've installed snow leopard and now my MX860 won't scan

    I've recently installed snow leopard and now my Canon MX860 won't scan.  I've reinstalled the scan driver from the Canon website.  Any other ideas?

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  • I re-installed snow leopard and my admin account is gone :(

    I re-installed snow leopard and my admin account is gone
    I became "standard user"
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    I've got the DVD original.
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    Thanks

    http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1278 and http://agrona.wordpress.com/2011/07/06/mac-os-x-10-5-administrator-user-changes- to-standard/ should point you in the right direction.

  • Just installed snow leopard and office for mac - now my computer is running very slow.  Why?

    I've recently installed snow leopard and office for mac - now my computer is running very slowly - why?

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  • I just installed snow leopard and now my itunes won't recognize my iphone. how do i fix this?

    I just installed snow leopard and now my itunes won't recognize my iphone. how do i fix this?

    http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1591
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  • Anyone install Snow Leopard on a 13" MacBook Pro and have any issues?

    Just wondering if anyone is this forum installed Snow Leopard on a MacBook Pro 13" and what occured if any?
    just want to know to really think before i upgrade.... getting really tense about this after seeing all these problems that are not only happening to third party apps but to the acctual system and native apps (safari, itunes, etc) Kinda Scared... i know Apple is a great company and does great things never imagined and im a big fan for 6 years when i was little, so i was surprised to see so many problems after release...

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    I don't seem to be able to find any updates to the mail program anywhere!
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    I re-reinstalled Snow Leopard and restarted. It is working fine!!!!

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