My 3.06 iMac is SLOWER with Snow Leopard, is this right?

[ucla95]

Seems odd but my Mac is definitely slower with this Snow Leopard installed.
1) Is this anomalous?
2) Can I uninstall it somehow?

 

[djourd]

It should be a bit more responsive. You could always back up all your stuff boot from the install disc (press and hold c at bootup with cd in the computer) and use disk utility to wipe the drive and reinstall.

 

[kate-willbury]

sounds about right. snow leopard is buggy as hell.

 

[Hellhammer]

My iMac works flawlessly with Snow Leopard. Did you do an upgrade or clean install? If you did an upgrade, try wiping the drive and then reinstall it to empty drive

 

[uuaschbaer]

Just some general questions with the purpose of identifying the problem:
Which model iMac would that be (when was it released)?
Have you updated to 10.6.2?

 

[MJD Dawg]

You're NOT hallucinating!

Barefeats has some interesting benchmarks comparing SL to Leopard, albeit with higher end GPU's. Maybe it's all driver related but along with all the other well documented issues, me thinks Apple rolled out SL too quickly. And the 10.6.2 update didn't do anything for system performance. Quite disappointing.

http://www.barefeats.com/nehal16.html

 

[ucla95]

Interesting and disturbing. Tyvm