My Airport is USELESS with Snow Leopard..What will it be with Lion?
Mr Jobs,
Like you would every get this . I am super annoyed
wth Snow Leopard.I ususally wait for the second to last or
last version of an OS before I upgrade. The reason is
simple, my Apple computer has worked fine, I didn't
have any big need to upgrade and though I want to stay up to
date I hate to fix something that "ain't broken.:" Well
Snow Leopard has screwed up my MacBook Pro big time. My
trusty MacBook Pro 17 (old core duo) has paid the rent for
since day one.
I am a Shooter/Director and need my laptop to work. I am a
more than adequate FCS editor. Snow Leopard has sent me
into a spin! My airport is useless. There is no simple
path to older software so though I may be 60 years old I
still need to use tools I have used or at least be offered
the option of moving forward to new ones. It is NOT YTOUR
style.
I am writing this from my old G5, edit suite. My MacBook Pro 17 is not able to connect to my Airport. My sister-in-law is in the next room with her MacBook Pro (same year as mine but 15") and on lien skype-ing and chatting and surfing. I can connect for more than 30 seconds and my "update software" is at the top of the chain. *****! I will be re-formating my hard drive and going back to Leopard SANS SNOW tomorrow! And folks spare me the silly advice. If you buy an OS and install it and do the upgrades , it should work. That is what Apple is about. That is why I have bought and used Apple since DAY One. I sold my TI and Commodore when I saw an Apple!
I know you will NEVER read this, but I needed to vent.
If you do, I will super happy to hear you did, you are well
and that you have passed it down the line.
Stay well and with us for a long time and all the great
innovations!
Best
Brian Murphy
If I had a nickel for every time I saw someone blame a system update for something silly, I'd be quite rich by now. If you believe reports on public forums, every release of Mac OS X has been the worst ever, which is obviously not true to anyone who has actually used all those systems. So, while there may be a lot of people reporting wireless problems with SL, that does not make it fact that the cause of the problem is SL. Fact: I have not seen wireless problems with any Macs running SL.
But, you seem not interested in listening to such things. You know that it's SL's fault. So there's really no solution for you but to revert to Leopard. If you're interested in getting things working with SL, as I said, post back on a different topic with details. (Since you started this topic with a bit of a rant, it's going to be difficult for you to get help on this topic.)
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Hello to everyone on this forum,
I'm new on this forum as from today on.
My Mac is from 15th May 2011 : iMac 12,2 Intel Core i5 2,7 GHz mit 8 GB RAM memory and 27" screen.
There is an OS Snow Leopard v. 10.6.8 on it.
When there was an upgrade to te Lion available, I saw a lot of negative comments about programs that did'nt work anymore with Lion , so I waited to upgrade my OS at that time. The upgrade was also about 30 Euro.
Now that there is the Mountain Lion available and the upgrade price is 16 Euro, I may have do the upgrade.
Question
Is it possible to do the upgrade from my Snow Leopard 10.6.8 to Mountain Lion 10.8 without having upgraded before to Lion (the upgrade in between) without any problems - programs which don't work anymore (anyone on this forum in the same situation as me and already having bad experiences with it) ?
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Belgium (Europe)Is it possible to do the upgrade from my Snow Leopard 10.6.8 to Mountain Lion 10.8 without having upgraded before to Lion (the upgrade in between) without any problems - programs which don't work anymore (anyone on this forum in the same situation as me and already having bad experiences with it) ?
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