Lifehacker’s Hackintosh build upgraded without problems to OS X 10.6.2, but the same wasn’t true for hacked netbooks.
If you followed our most recent guides to installing Snow Leopard on a PC from start to finish or the updated guide to building a Hackintosh with Snow Leopard, no hacking required, you’ll be happy to know that I’ve tested my build with today’s 10.6.2 update to Snow Leopard and it’s working like a charm.
Apple today rolled out the 10.6.2 update to OS X Snow Leopard. This update fixes that nasty guest account bug we saw last month and in general tackles a whole host of bugs, stability issues and other various improvements.
Mac only: If you’re not a big fan of using the Terminal but love hidden features in OS X, Secrets is the preference pane for you.
Ask anyone who runs the eye-catching Plex media centre on their Mac about Snow Leopard, and you might see them wince. A new update fixes that painful Apple Remote incompatibility and also improves audio for those without 5.1 sound systems.
Quicksilver is easily one of our favourite tools ever, but since its future isn’t all that bright, die-hard users cross our fingers every time OS X updates. In Snow Leopard, Quicksilver stopped working for many users; here’s how to fix it.
With the Windows 7 release looming next week, tech site CNET decided that it’d be a good time to see how the two stack up against each other. It may seem unfair that the tests use a MacBook Pro booting Snow Leopard and Windows 7 in Boot Camp, but whether or not that mattered, the results are fairly balanced.
Apple pushed a Performance Update out for certain models running Leopard or Snow Leopard last evening, aiming to fix occasional hard drive performance issues the Mac maker says affects a small number of users.
Yesterday we mentioned that a particularly nasty bug in Snow Leopard was deleting entire user accounts. The good news: Apple has acknowledged the bug, claimed that it only occurs in extremely rare cases, and assured users they’re working on a fix. The bad news: Losing all of your user data—even if a bug is extremely rare—is a very big deal. [CNET]
