[Igor]

i bought myself a copy of snow leopard january time and got everything all up and running but i havent done any updates yet. ive seen quite a few posts on here with quite a few people having problems doing or after theyve done an update

how safe is it to update? is it actually necessary to update? and is it beneficial to upgrade?

thanks in advance

[bmcclure937]

Let's put it this way... there have been more success stories than failures.

Be sure to create a backup and then follow the directions carefully and you should not have any problems. I upgraded 2 netbooks with .8.4RC1 and OSX 10.6.3 and know of countless friends and forum members who have done so as well.

Be patient and follow the directions and you will be fine. Also, backup!! People usually skip this step and then whine and moan if they screw up their install.

[wanger man]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE run time machine back up first then you always have a chance to go back. Just follow the instructions to the letter and you will have 10.6.3

[TheDoctah]

It's always beneficial to upgrade, eventually something will be released that requires the upgraded sw plus you get all the latest bug fixes and security updates, but if you're not into the latest and greatest, stick with what works. I was on 10.5.6 up until 2 days ago. Only now, have i felt that SL has matured enough to a permanent solution for me on my mini. Meklort has the drivers down solid too.

Make a back up and try the upgrade (following the instructions of course)

You should be successful, majority of the failures are due to people not reading first.

[Buckaroo Banzai]

It took a lot of time and energy to get my minis up to 10.6.2. with everything working.

What is the advantage to 10.6.3?
Any new exciting features or fixed bugs?

I feel like I should just run 10.6.2 until there is a major update.

Even my MacBookPro is still running 10.6.2.

Thoughts?

[wanger man]

Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai

It took a lot of time and energy to get my minis up to 10.6.2. with everything working.

What is the advantage to 10.6.3?
Any new exciting features or fixed bugs?

I feel like I should just run 10.6.2 until there is a major update.

Even my MacBookPro is still running 10.6.2.

Thoughts?

To be honest it's personal choice. If Apple did not deem it necessary to patch the OS then they would not have released a new service pack. If you are happy running 10.6.2 then don't bother with the update I wouldn't let all of the negative comments put you off though as long as you have a working back up you can change back if you wish.

I have not found any exciting new features yet so I guess it was just a bunch of bug fixes and security patches a bit like service pack 3 on XP

[charley]

Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai

It took a lot of time and energy to get my minis up to 10.6.2. with everything working.

What is the advantage to 10.6.3?
Any new exciting features or fixed bugs?

I feel like I should just run 10.6.2 until there is a major update.

Even my MacBookPro is still running 10.6.2.

Thoughts?

Here is the Apple change log About the Mac OS X v10.6.3 Update

[holmes4]

I would observe that if the thought of a software update scares you, you should not be running a "hackintosh" in the first place. One of the unfortunate side-effects of guides and easy tools is that some people find it too simple and get in over their heads. I see this with TiVo hacking as well - people who run "scripts" or buy "pre-hacked" boxes then are lost when something goes wrong.

With hackintoshing in particular, OS X is a moving target and Apple has a long history of making changes that break non-Apple software. It's not that they (usually) do it deliberately, it's just that they don't give a damn and throw things over the wall. Apple certainly doesn't lift a finger to help hackintoshers and I'm sure they lose no sleep if something they do breaks hackintoshes.

In my opinion, you should not attempt hackintoshing if you can't accept the risk of something going very wrong.

[Buckaroo Banzai]

I agree.
But that's what my IT friends are for.
Barter system. And I might just learn something along the way.

My wife and I both have minis running OSX nicely and I just don't want to rock the boat unless there is a good reason to update the OS.

Thanks though.

[Felixz]

big reason i discovered if you cross platform code html/java script stuff like that, file structures are now recognised on both platforms. good reason to go 6.3. as before i found it was a complete pain for a windows DW to recognise resources built on SL. or so the Apple bug fixers say as i haven't tried it yet..

I did some images a few weeks ago on my Mactbook, then nested them in a MouseOver script, you think IE could find them, only until i discovered each image had some kind of hexadecimal looking value #16504 that had to be attached could i get it to run. (any one else had that?)

i really hope that's fixed.

sorry that's not much of an answer to your question though, but it does show that an OS is a kind of work in progress process, updates get you to the latest and 'best' working formula.

if you don't feel happy updating simple don't. what you actually do on your computer 9 times out of 10 dictates if you need update or not, I like updating my Mini for the fun of bug fixing, sadly not much to report on 6.3 yeah had the no audio until re boot prob, but that wasn't anything to write home about

for example in the Mac world some people wont go past OSX.5.6 thinking it's the best update for Leopard.

I kinda agree with holmes4 and kinda not..