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15 Oct 2009
Apple has released a patch for a hard drive problem with its Snow Leopard operating system.
The company said in a statement that a feature in Snow Leopard causes the hard drive to "pause", or what other PC users would probably call "crash".
Like most Apple confessions of poor quality, the statement says that the problem affects only a small number of users.
However, the list of affected machines is as follows: MacBook Pro (17in Mid 2009), MacBook Pro (15in Mid 2009), MacBook Pro (15in 2.53GHz Mid 2009), MacBook Pro (13in Mid 2009), MacBook Pro (17in Early 2009), MacBook Pro (15in Late 2008), MacBook (13in Mid 2009), MacBook (13in Early 2009, MacBook (13in Aluminum Late 2008), MacBook Air (Mid 2009), MacBook Air (Late 2008), iMac (20in Mid 2009), iMac (24in Early 2009) iMac (20in Early 2009) and Mac Mini (Early 2009).
Rather than patch the problem, Apple has instead released what it calls a " performance update".
Snow Leopard was supposed to be to Leopard what Windows 7 was to Vista, but it is proving to have even more bugs than its predecessor.
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Rubbish Journalism
Put your bias aside and try to inform with your articles instead of invoke controversy.
Posted by: Sean 23 Oct 2009
Where is your defence?
When I read this I thought Oh dear! this will upset the Apple followers. The language is perhaps a bit provocative,especially to those who may be somewhat sensitive Are you going to defend yourself or were you just attemptng to give them some of what they tend to give to Microsoft? I am just another of the few left in 2009 who is still using Windows (actually XP,Vista, W7 RC and Linux but ex Mac, long ago )
Posted by: David 21 Oct 2009
Vista and Leopard?
There is no comparison between vista and Leopard. Vista was a demonstration of poor vision, design, and execution. Leopard was the opposite.
Posted by: Mark 18 Oct 2009
Wow...
"Snow Leopard was supposed to be to Leopard what Windows 7 was to Vista" You're kidding right? You say this as if Leopard had major problems to fix. It didn't. Comparing Leopard to Vista shows a tremendous lack of computing and technology knowledge. As for Snow Leopard's "bugs": I'm running it on an almost 4 years old production machine and aside from hiccups with one application, I'm getting my work done. Considering the amount of major underlying changes in the OS (OpenCL, 64bit, Grand Central etc...) I'd say that's pretty darn good. This is a very poorly written article...
Posted by: jade 16 Oct 2009
Typical
Don't you know, tech writers think they can earn street cred by getting all righteous on Apple all the time. It's funny how all the Apple haters get so religious about showing how much they hate Apple!
Posted by: Data 16 Oct 2009
Incorrect Summary - Not Such a Big Issue!
From my experience, the problem did not cause "crashes" but did cause "pauses" from which the affected Mac would resume 30 secs or so later without any after effects. It was irritating but not critical and didn't happen all that often. The problem was with recent hard drive driver/firmware not related to Snow Leopard. My system is running plain old Leopard but has one of the newer faster 500Gb drives which has been affected by this and an earlier "clicking sound" problem. So the "Performance Update" is a driver/firmware patch for the hard drive. IT seems to solve the problem - no "pauses" since installing it!
Posted by: Peter Reid 15 Oct 2009
Biased article
Wake up, it's 2009, nobody wants Windows anymore.
Posted by: Brian 15 Oct 2009
Whatever happened to unbiased journalism?
Where as I agree that the issue Apple fixes with it's update is a fairly serious one, the tone of this article is highly subjective and displays considerable bias. The language used throughout takes a deliberately accusatory tone, and many of the statements are based more on emotive perceptions than fact, e.g. "Like most Apple confessions of poor quality..." and "...it is proving to have more bugs than it's predecessor". There is a sense emerging in a number of articles that some of Computing's writers have an objection to Apple's products and/or their approach. This is entirely reasonable, however they should not air their views in news articles that are intended to be objective.
Posted by: Colin 15 Oct 2009
Snow Leopard has "more bugs"? Not on your life
Snow Leopard does not have more bugs than Leopard. It's a lazy, throwaway comment unbefitting journalism, even online journalism, and even V3's usually low standards.
Posted by: Cartman 15 Oct 2009