Snow Leopard has no keyboard brightness control, why?

Why does Snow Leopard have no brightness control on the keyboard ? Also why will the magic mouse not wake the screen from sleep ?

For brightness F14/15.
For magic mouse: Sys Prefs>Bluetooth>Advanced

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You need to move to Windows 7, because Apple is now releasing a new OS X version annually and it's playing havoc with people's hardware and software.
Windows 7 will get support until 2020, that's 8 years of software stability, however you do need to make System Restore disks, boot disk and another on a hard drive to self restore (like TimeMachine is for OS X)
Apple has no plans to change their currrent behavior as all they care about is selling new hardware with a shiny new OS X verison on it.
If you wait to move, what will happen is you'll lose that full 8 years and will have to swtich to a newer Windows sooner
Windows 7 machines are still widely avaialble, despite Windows 8 (a failure) being pushed currently.
Running three OS X operating systems on one machine is quite a chore reserved for only seasoned computer geeks, then it's only going to last X months as the next OS X version will be released, then the next a year after that.
Another method would be to get a virtual machine software (virtualbox is free) and install Windows 7 into that to ease your transitition if you cant' spring for a Windows 7 machine, preferablly a tower that will last a long time.
Here is a method to run Snow Leopard in Parallels, however it's a unapproced hack and not for the comptuer newbie.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1365439
We have no control over Apple's OS X release cycle, nor the third party developers who make their own decisions what to support.
Our only choice as users to stop using both products and seek software/hardware stability.

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http://discussions.apple.com/click.jspa?searchID=-1&messageID=6183892
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Please advise:
Upgraded to Snow Leopard last week. After the install and software update (10.6.1), my iMac (24-inch : 2.66GHz,2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) totally freaked out: freezes during start up leaving the wallpaper but no menu bar or dock; apps like Safari, Firefox, and even iTunes crash the system and won't force quit; iPhone won't synch. I restarted up in Safe Boot mode and it worked fine, albeit with the limited functionality of Safe Boot.
I thought it was a bad install, so I restored the computer to 10.5.8 using Time Machine. This took hours. I installed Snow Leopard again, the crashing and freezing started immediately. I repaired permissions, verified fonts and all the usual suspects, but no problems were apparent.
Tech support suggested first that I remove all startup items. The computer finally booted up, but then crashed minutes later. I called back and the new guy suggested I erase the hard drive, then reinstall. He suggested I set up the computer first, then migrate all my data from a Time Machine backup as if I had just bought the computer. This took hours. As soon as my documents, settings, and apps came over, the system started crashing again.
Now I have a computer taht only works in Safe Boot mode. I guess I can just restore 10.5.8 using the Time Machine (again). is it possible for year-old Mac is not compatible with Snow Leopard? Is all this crashing soing any harm to my system?
Suggestions? I've never experienced problems of this magnitude with Apple software. I'm a relatively expereinced user, but have never seen anything like this.

Crashing is not great for a machine or system. No, your machine is Sno compatible. I would go back to Leo again--using TM, Then, I would make a bootable clone of this system on an external firewire 800 drive. This installation is your backup and fail safe device. Restoring the clone to your internal will be faster than from TM if you ever want to go back to Leo again.
Then, I would do an erase and install of Sno. In doing an erase and install, I would first repair disk. I would just use the quick erase method. At the end of the installation process, you will have the opportunity to restore your data and other things to your new installation from your clone or your TM. I would restore only my data--and from the clone. After doing so, I would reinstall all apps by hand (not by restoring from the clone). Repair permissions after your install is complete. I would use the same user name and password that you now are using on your Sno install. Be sure and be connected to the internet when installing and that all peripherals are unplugged.
I definitely would not restore your users and settings from your Leo install or your TM. If you do, then you may bring your problems to the new install. Above I said to reinstall your apps by hand. You might choose to take a small risk and to restore them from your clone to keep from having to reinstall all your apps assuming that reinstalling them would be a daunting task. If you are missing items after your install, then they will be in your home folder on the clone.

Brand new 27" iMac with Snow Leopard has constant hard disk activity

I just purchased a new 27" iMac which was an upgrade for my 24" with Leopard. I have used my older machine for a good year and not noticed any hard drive activity when idle.
Now on the new machine with Snow Leopard I constantly get hard disk activty every few seconds.
This will happen from:
1) Restart
2) leaving at login screen
3) loggin in and not running anything.
4) Computer screen in sleep mode.
5) well, all the time really.
I have looked at the activity monitor and can see spikes every 5-10 seconds.
I have turned off all processes possible, watched processes for CPU spikes, etc to no avail.
Is anyone else having the same problem and if so can they suggest a fix? I originally thought it may be something writing to a log every so often but I have no idea what and how to find it.
Using iStat just confirms the activity.
Hope you can help as this is driving me mad!
Message was edited by: RedDwarfUK

RedDwarfUK wrote:
I havent really installed much as well. Here are the list of programs I have installed.
Adium
Firefox
New icons
app cleaner
skype
spotify
chicken of the VNC
GoToMeeting
Cisco VPN Client
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I would start by checking each of these items, making sure you have the latest versions of each & that they are compatible with Snow Leopard. Do the same for any Firefox extensions or any plugins associated with any of these applications. In particular, chicken of the VNC hasn't been updated since 2006 & what little compatibility info I can find for it suggests it supports only Tiger (10.4) & 10.3.9. The Download Xmarks page indicates that it is beta software.
Also note that some of these items may do more than just run as applications. On first run or install, some might install startup or login items, or preference panels that remain in effect even when the application is not running. Check /Library/StartupItems & /System/Library/StartupItems -- both are empty by default, so anything you find in them is suspect. Likewise, check the System Preferences > Accounts > Login Items tab. Anything you find in them that does not appear to come from Apple (like iTunes helper) is suspect. Also check the "Other" category of System Preferences.

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I installed Snow Leopard and now safari will not work. The Airport connects to my home network but will not load any pages. Is this a common issue that can be fixed?
Advice to resolve this issue would be much appreciated.
Many thanks

Gastonw wrote:
I tried everything you suggested, but I still can't go on the web. Safari keeps saying that it can't stabilize a connection with the server.
I have no idea on this.
However, the iMac is well connected to the internet, because on my MacBook, I can see it under 'Shared'. Do you have any other options?
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First:
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Second:
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This happens on both my MBP and iMac so it's not a hardware issue and to be honest appears to be getting worse.
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