Over 55% of 9to5Mac readers now on Snow Leopard
It looks like the Snow Leopard transition is moving along pretty well, if our Google Analytics are any indication. A week after release, over 55% of you Mac users are using Snow Leopard (which includes PowerPC users who don't have the option). The bleeding edge 9to5mac community is probably a little ahead of the rest of the world but the stat is still an extremely positive sign for Apple. For the rest of you (on Intel), get updating!
For the work week, it was still the most popular version of the Mac OS (below) garnering 50% of the logged machines.
In fact, (impressive!!) 10% of you were on Snow Leopard the day before it was released! That is some early adoption!
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You should show or just say in the comments how many of you visitors run windows.
It would be an interesting statistic.
Well, for the graphic above you can see that Mac is 70%. Windows use is usually about 25% (people stuck at work? on Boot Camp?, researching a switch?) and iPhone/iPod, Linux etc. fill in the rest.
Interestingly, a small but significant percentage of "Mac users" are Hackintoshers.
How can you tell a Hackintosh versus a normal Apple?
So far I have been VERY impressed with Snow Leopard. Right off the bat I got a 20gb increase on my iMac that will be 2 years old in January. I only have 1 program in which I have a issue with but I really never use it, not too heartbreaking. Speed has increased as well, and the overall beachballness has decreased.
4 visits from PPC 10.6?
The iPhone dev tools on Snow Leopard can't build apps for iPhone OS 2.x devices. MANY iPod touch users have not upgraded to iPhone OS 3.0 and many many gamers are iPod touch users.
Hopefully, something will change and Apple will somehow provide a compelling reason for many iPod touch users to upgrade to 3.0 and/or provide Snow Leopard with the ability to build iPhone OS 2.x apps.
So how do you install Snow Leopard on a PPC Mac as Im not upgrading my Powermac for a while and I would really like 10.6 on it?????
Anyone! Anyone!
I hope that was a joke... You CAN'T put 10.6 on anything but an Intel Mac. The PPC 10.6 hits in the stats are incorrect.
why don't you show us that "AsSence Revenue" tab for a change ? :D
Because it is depressing as hell
Weird browsers show up sometimes in Google Analytics. Once I got "Mozilla Web Client" that was supposedly running on an iPhone. Maybe this means Firefox is coming out for the iPhone(!).
Does it show how many have SL but can't install it due to the installer not seeing the hard drive?
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=774367
I'm stuck with Leopard till I get another drive!
Nah, just reset your PRAM. That has been working form most people with this affliction
Since loading 10.6 I can't send any mail. Can receive but not send I now have to wait for 10.6.1 and hope it solves the problem.This is on Frontier telephone system./
Personal or corporate email? If an ISP who are they? Under Outgoing Mail Server what are your settings under Advanced ? SSL? Ports? Authentication?
I'm on my Macintosh SE/30 right now. Where's the stats for Motorola users? :P
good going :-)!
"over 55% of you Mac users are using Snow Leopard (which includes PowerPC users who don't have the option)"
What does the second part of that sentence mean?
"the stat is still an extremely positive sign for Apple"
Why? Apple makes trivial revenue from selling $29 upgrades. What would a positive sign (but not determinable from web stats) is how many NEW Macs with Snow Leopard installed are browsing the site.
There could never be 100% because there is a PowerPC subset using base of customers and they can't update.
55% is better than 5%for example because it means Apple has more $$ and their users have the latest OS. Windows would be an example of the opposite.
Nooooo problems! 24" 2007 iMac w/4 GB RAM. Everything just works!
Me too. No issues with any of my Mac:
2009 MBP 15"
2008 iMac
2007 Macbook
In all cases, it is quite snappy. Impressive what some optimizing can do.
Just imagine if all vendor apps (MS) were optimized for memory and performance.
Snow Leopard is buggy. Broke my code when I upgraded (I kept a copy of it) and I got the spinning wheel of death first time I upgraded. Reminds me of the view fanboys have of windows.
I've upgraded four systems so far no big issues. Just check to make sure you have latest versions of your apps. As a FileMaker user I did have to install the optional Rosetta. My son, at UC Brekeley, is holding off for a bit as there appear to be problems with MathLab and Mathmatica.
Snow Leopard Install gave me 25 gigs of free hard disk space, sick!
Nice to see the Mac drones forking over $29 for a service pack on the orders of Lord Jobs.
It looks like this transition is going very well. I would like to see Mr. Gates do this. casino