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Snow Leopard 101: For Smart People Only
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[Ray Chung] “Aw crap. “
First, you attribute my excellent advice to another… That’s grounds for public flogging.
And second, you respond with the words above and you didn’t even put in a single exclamation mark. Very poor form.
Everyone, I think we have a good candidate here for lots of snickering and giggling. Start practicing and get those derisive comments ready…
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.
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I, for one, am planning on getting a brand spanking new 10k RPM drive (Western Digital Raptor), to install everything from the ground up in my Mac Pro. I’ll have my original drive in air-tight storage just in case I need to go back. I’ll have Snow Leopard, the new Final Cut Suite, all my pro-apps and plug-ins running crazy fast!
Of course, this is all dependent on if I ever get any of my invoices paid. 🙁
Winston A. Cely
Editor/Owner | Della St. Media, LLCMac Pro 3GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
4 GB RAM | Final Cut Studio 5.1.4 | Aja Kona LHe“If you can talk brilliantly enough about a subject, you can create the consoling allusion it has been mastered.” – Stanley Kubrick
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[Winston A. Cely] “I, for one, am planning on getting a brand spanking new 10k RPM drive (Western Digital Raptor), to install everything from the ground up in my Mac Pro. I’ll have my original drive in air-tight storage just in case I need to go back. I’ll have Snow Leopard, the new Final Cut Suite, all my pro-apps and plug-ins running crazy fast! “
Well, we know Winston is smart. That’s one small step for mankind…
Okay, so let’s hear from some of you aren’t so smart. Who wants to live on the edge? Who wants to defy the odds? Who wants to prove to the rest of us that we’re just silly worry-warts? Come on, we know you’re out there… Who’s willing to speak up for just winging it and hoping for the best?
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.
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I will be willing to do a upgrade install! But it will be done on the clone. I really want to test to see if there is a really speed improvement with SL. But I will eventually do the clean install, so I guess I will be in the 1/2 stupid or 1/2 smart class.
I also have FCS3 on a removable drive for testing and I will probably upgrade that to SL also. That gives me a drive that I bounce from MBP to MP.
So the craziness is for testing only but on production machines.
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I’ll be the guinea pig!
I’ll still make a bootable OS 10.5.8 clone just in case, but using your own sound logic,
I will still have a usable back up just in case. If everything gets totally FUBARed on the Snow Leopard drive, I can always just nuke it and start from scratch (like I would have to do anyway). It took me a full week to install all the apps, drivers, plug-ins, enter the 20 digit serials numbers, etc. etc. when I outfitted my new Nehalem less than a month ago! And so far I have been one of those (lucky few apparently) who has never done a clean erase and install on any of my MAC systems, and have never had any trouble or problems whatsoever. It will be an interesting experiment, but I WILL still have my CC backup just in case!Dual 2.5 G5, IO, Kona LH, IO, Medea Raid, UL4D, NVidia 6800, 4Gig RAM
Nehalem Octocore 12 GB Ram, Nvidia card, MBP, MXO, MXO2 mini, Windows Vista Adobe Studio CS4, Vegas 9.0, Lightwave 9.6, Sound Forge 9, Acid Pro 7, Continuum 6, Boris Red 4, Combustion 2008, Sapphire Effects -
Now please, do not mock and humiliate me, but I do run Windows XP on my MBP only because I need to use AutoCAD from time to time. I am ordering Snow Leopard and will follow this advice but in doing this clean install of my Mac OS, will it wipe that off my Windows install as well?
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Biscard (Roth): First, you attribute my excellent advice to another… That’s grounds for public flogging.
So you got that part? ;DAnd second, you respond with the words above and you didn’t even put in a single exclamation mark. Very poor form.
Everyone, I think we have a good candidate here for lots of snickering and giggling. Start practicing and get those derisive comments ready…
Actually…I was looking okay until you brought up the ‘bad gambler’ part. ;-D
In all seriousness…I always do a main drive clone every time I do an OS update (combo/downloaded). so I wouldn’t think of not doing it with something as major as going to Snow Leopard when that comes. Secondly, I’m looking to get a newer MacPro sometime soon, so I’ll probably wait and install everything fresh on that. I want to make sure that all my peripherals/equipment have cacthed up as well…CalDigit, Blackmagic et al…..and wait to do it in between projects.
As for the gambling….if 2’s and 3’s ranked higher than Jacks, I’d be the mac-daddy.
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[Eric Nicastro] “I am ordering Snow Leopard and will follow this advice but in doing this clean install of my Mac OS, will it wipe that off my Windows install as well?”
Good question!!!
If I were you Eric, I would clone the system drive and test both the Mac and Windows partitions to see if you’re able to boot both from the clone. If so, then you’re covered under any circumstance.
Meanwhile, I’m pretty sure can do a fresh install to a specific partition on a drive in a dual boot configuration, but others will have to either confirm or deny that, as I’m not running such a configuration here.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™
A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, Indie Film & Documentary, and Film History & Appreciations forums.
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[Eric Nicastro] ” I am ordering Snow Leopard and will follow this advice but in doing this clean install of my Mac OS, will it wipe that off my Windows install as well?”
I’m pretty certain you can simply wipe the Mac side of things to do the fresh install of Snow Leopard only. This is assuming that you would either Boot Up in Windows or Mac and you don’t use something like Parallels to run Windows inside of the Mac desktop. if you did this, then you would most likely want to start from scratch with a clean drive and partition it again for Windows and Mac.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author.
Credits include multiple Emmy, Telly, Aurora and Peabody Awards.
Owner, Biscardi Creative Media featuring HD Post
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I think the easy thing for everyone to remember the correct to think about Snow Leopard is
“What Would Zelin Do?”
He would definitely tell you to erase your system and do a clean install or he will come over to your house and wipe that smug “upgrade” smile off your face.
That’s always my credo when installing / updating stuff. WWZD. Because I really like to keep his visits to a minimum……….
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author.
Credits include multiple Emmy, Telly, Aurora and Peabody Awards.
Owner, Biscardi Creative Media featuring HD Post
Biscardi Creative MediaCreative Cow Forum Host:
Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple Motion, Apple Color, AJA Kona, Business & Marketing, Maxx Digital.
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