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I found a way to install Microsoft Office 2008 using Terminal:

1. Type in "sudo installer -package" after that hit space

2. Drag the Office Installer.mpkg file from the CD or DMG to the Terminal window and type "-target /"

3. Hit enter and fill in your password

4. Wait for it to complete.

Edit You'll have to download and install the SP1 and SP2 updates manually. The AutoUpdate application requires an update before it can be used. The update it automatically downloads also uses a PPC-only installer file so that won't do you any good. However, after installing SP2 the AutoUpdate application is updated as well and can be used to install additional updates.

The way it looks right now this offers an 100% fix to the problem.

Edited by .Neo

for those who bought a Mac after June 8th 2009 you have 90 days from the date of your purchase to get Snow Leopard up-to-date DVD for $9.95 .........offer expires 26th December 2009.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/uptodate/

Parallels just released an update to Parallels Desktop 4 that supports Snow Leopard on 64bits :D

One app less between me and the 64bit kernell.

Hoping this is true, downloading the only update that is available, this would solve my main concern with incompatibilities in 64-bit. :)

Parallels just released an update to Parallels Desktop 4 that supports Snow Leopard on 64bits :D

One app less between me and the 64bit kernell.

Still not sure if I should go with Parallels or stick with VMware Fusion. Somehow Parallels always felt bloated to me. The version 5 beta looks nice though.

Hoping this is true, downloading the only update that is available, this would solve my main concern with incompatibilities in 64-bit. :)

It's true, the new build is 3846 (from 3844) and resolve many things.

.Neo, Paralells have been always faster for me, also it has better support for 3D acceleration (Both OpenGL and DirectX) than any other virtual Machine.

anyone set up a boot camp partition after install SL? Mine get's stuck at partitioning the disk. I tried booting the SL disk and repairing the permissions and repairing the disk but nothing has changed the outcome. I guess i will let it stay there for a while and see what happens.

anyone set up a boot camp partition after install SL? Mine get's stuck at partitioning the disk. I tried booting the SL disk and repairing the permissions and repairing the disk but nothing has changed the outcome. I guess i will let it stay there for a while and see what happens.

The new screenshot names are seriously getting on my nerves :p

Is there a way to revert?

MacPilot can change the name prefix still in SL

You know what else is really is that third party apps still use base 2 instead of base 10 like Finder, i always thought third party apps got the size information from the system

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Edited by Phantom Helix

My copy came today. I'd say the performance on my machine actually went down. Things take longer to open and it generally feels more sluggish especially the finder. I did an upgrade not a new Install. I know I'm going to get replies like 'Do a new install' or 'You should have done a new install' but I don't want to go through the trouble of setting my machine up again. Kinda disappointed actually I only got this Mac in Late feburary and I've not done any modifications to the operating system I barely have any preference pane items and it still hurt the systems performance..

yeah the upgrade took about 40 Minutes or so on my 17" MacBook Pro (Up to date Leopard installed, 2.93GHz CPU 4GB RAM 7,200RPM 320GB Disk with 140GB free)

Actually the machine appears to have perked up a bit and is a lot more responsive after I've left it for a few more minutes after the install completed. I didn't notice it doing any Time Machine backups or Spotlight indexes after the install completed (whilst it was still sluggish). And I did check to make sure it wasn't doing those before I gauged the performance.

My copy came today. I'd say the performance on my machine actually went down. Things take longer to open and it generally feels more sluggish especially the finder. I did an upgrade not a new Install. I know I'm going to get replies like 'Do a new install' or 'You should have done a new install' but I don't want to go through the trouble of setting my machine up again. Kinda disappointed actually I only got this Mac in Late feburary and I've not done any modifications to the operating system I barely have any preference pane items and it still hurt the systems performance..

How long has it been since you upgraded, after first run it can take awhile to re-index and re-build some caches

haven't confirmed this yet, but it seems that the "in-place" upgrade is actually like an archive and install even though it doesn't call it that,

it saves your user info/apps/settings all that like with 10.5 cleans the drive partition and then installs clean and re-injects your data as if you had done a clean install

and then used migration assistant to pull your data from a backup

that might explain why i had to re-activate a lot of my paid third party software

Edited by Phantom Helix

Since you knew this was coming, I might as well confirm it. With every Mac OS X release it's the same story: Weird unexplained behavior, underwhelming performance, missing files etc.

Don't upgrade, do an Erase & Install instead.

Don't upgrade, do an Erase & Install instead.

DO THIS. While I didn't have any 'major' problems with my original SL installation, I decided later to do an erase and install and the performance difference is like night and day.

Also, does anyone know how to make the new menu smaller when you click on the 'applications' folder in the dock? Everythings maybe 5 times the size it should be...

My copy came today. I'd say the performance on my machine actually went down. Things take longer to open and it generally feels more sluggish especially the finder. I did an upgrade not a new Install. I know I'm going to get replies like 'Do a new install' or 'You should have done a new install' but I don't want to go through the trouble of setting my machine up again. Kinda disappointed actually I only got this Mac in Late feburary and I've not done any modifications to the operating system I barely have any preference pane items and it still hurt the systems performance..

wierd....what are you systems specs? processor, ram and hard drive speed (5400 or 7200)?

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