- Awful flash support in Chrome (browser of choice) on day one. Now working thankfully. If I loaded up a new tab in Chrome that used flash, literally the entire tab was transparent (wouldn't render at all). It was nice that flash-based ads wouldn't render though ;-) looked like a newspaper after someone cut out a few coupons.
- Spotlight couldn't even find pre-installed applications (e.g. Safari). Took a few days for this to work itself out.
- Finder was completely screwed. Had to go hunting for "Macintosh HD" and manually add a shortcut in the left pane in Finder (needed to look into the hard drive directly to rectify the XCode issue above).
- NTFS USB drives (MS Windows file format) no longer supported at all. This worked fine in Snow Leopard. Incredibly irritating, as I intended using my USB drive to move over files from a Snow Leopard machine. Disk utility refuses to mount the USB drive.
All this made for a poor out-of-box experience. Would love to have the option of getting the same new iMac, except running Snow Leopard.
- Can't install XCode 3.2.6 without a workaround (I need to be on the same version of XCode as my co-workers). I had to use this:
http://catacombae.blogspot.com/2011/07/installing-xcode-326-...
- Awful flash support in Chrome (browser of choice) on day one. Now working thankfully. If I loaded up a new tab in Chrome that used flash, literally the entire tab was transparent (wouldn't render at all). It was nice that flash-based ads wouldn't render though ;-) looked like a newspaper after someone cut out a few coupons.
- Spotlight couldn't even find pre-installed applications (e.g. Safari). Took a few days for this to work itself out.
- Finder was completely screwed. Had to go hunting for "Macintosh HD" and manually add a shortcut in the left pane in Finder (needed to look into the hard drive directly to rectify the XCode issue above).
- NTFS USB drives (MS Windows file format) no longer supported at all. This worked fine in Snow Leopard. Incredibly irritating, as I intended using my USB drive to move over files from a Snow Leopard machine. Disk utility refuses to mount the USB drive.
All this made for a poor out-of-box experience. Would love to have the option of getting the same new iMac, except running Snow Leopard.