o am i in trouble. last week i eagerly installed snow leopard on my macbook, and became immediately intoxicated with the new speed i had on the machine. this was despite the fact that snow leopard immediately disabled several of my favourite plugins. i should have taken this as a warning, but o no, not me, i had to try to install the thing on my partner’s nearly new top of the range macbook pro, while she was out. nice surprise for her when she got home. i thought.
about two-thirds into the installation (that encouraging blue progress bar creeping from left to right across the screen) it stopped with that sickly yellow exclamation mark triangle and the words i’ll never forget: ‘installation failed’. it suggested i re-try installation. again, no go. since then i’ve tried everything (you name it - target mode, verify and repair disk permissions, verify and repair disk) appointment with apple ‘genius’ (ha!) tomorrow. right now the machine is stuck in the greyscreen-shutdown-restart-greyscreen-shutdown-restart-greyscreen-shutdown … circle of hell.
i have found reports of similar experiences to this all over the internet. don’t take my word for it.
if you are going to install snow leopard, be prepared. and for god’s sake back everything up. twice probably. if you’ve decided to wait until they’ve ironed out the bugs, you might be wiser. i’m just saying.
it’s my gut feeling that apple rushed this out prematurely. 3rd party app developers have been caught with their pants down (the wonderful mailtags being a case in point, whose developer has been under so much pressure to bring out a compatibility update that the one currently provided has a list of bugs that rivals the insect population of the amazon basin).
update:
the hard drive on the macbook pro is apparently suffering from something called an ‘invalid node structure’. sounds nasty doesn’t it. apparently it’s near fatal. let’s see what the ‘genius’ says tomorrow
any comments?
