I like Apple. I own a bad ass Apple Mac Pro and I’ve always used boot camp on it, with Windows Vista 64 bit. I fackin HATE Vista so when Microsoft came out with Windows 7, two things were going to happen. One, I was going to kick Vista’s dumb ass to the curb and two, I’d see about getting a second computer to make work easier. Use the Mac for video editing, the PC for everything else.

So… I get the second system set up, it’s awesome. Windows 7 and none of the Vista hassles. +1 Microsoft.

Apple releases Snow Leopard as their bright shiny new toy and I grab it, thinking… Apple can do no wrong, their OS is amazing right?

Wrong.

Ever since installing Snow Leopard, my computer has been one sluggish pile of poop. My Mac Pro will be fine and then go to sleep for no reason, and won’t wake. I will be encoding HD videos for the site and poof! System goes to black screen, and nadda, she no wakey.

I have screen saver shut off, I’m very knowledgeable on computers so yes, I am 150% sure it’s not a setting I have screwed with. Hell, shut of the screen saver, power settings etc and what else is there to do? Damn thing still crashes/freezes/sleeps, whatever you want to call it.

I googled and I see Apple had this issue once before with MacBook Pro’s, when they moved from 10.5.6 to 10.5.7. It was some issue that would cause a kernel panic and boom, sleep baby, sleep. So they come out with 10.6.0 and right off the bat they have that retarded issue where if you use a guest account, it’ll wipe your main account. That’s just stupid, but on the upside, nobody uses my comp so guest account is never in use.

So they fix this with 10.6.1 or 10.6.2 and all should be fine. Nope. 10.6.2 and my system goes nappy time whenever it damn well feels like it. I see a ton of others posting in Apple’s forums about this as well. the support board is lit up with Mac Pro Freezes and Mac Pro Crashes on Sleep and Mac Pro Hangs etc.

Fail. Major fucking Fail.

So, I decided Snow Leopard is very much like Vista. In fact, I’d go so far as to say Snow Leopard is Apple’s version of Windows’ Vista. It’s seriously that buggy. They were prob in a race to deliver ahead of W7 and whoops, left some bugs. Software companies do this almost always anyway, get it to release candidate phase, release and let the first batch of humans that run it to basically be beta testers.

Fuckers.

So, Snow Leopard, suck my balls. Please.

I have gone back to Leopard and yes, this means I have to reinstall every single piece of software on my box, but then again, this might be a good thing. After all, new installs usually mean a cleaner system. Maybe this was a good thing.

I shall view it as a good thing.

Bryci was smart when I got Snow Leopard, she was like… ummm… I’m good. I don’t want to upgrade. I should have followed her lead on this. grumble grumble. Why do women always know what’s best? (rhetorical)