This is the most buggy Mac upgrade I have ever encountered. Here are the issues I had, which are not as bad as others.
My stats: Macbook 13" white that is about 18 months old; 2GB RAM, more than enough space on the HD.
- When trying to upgrade via Software Update, the file failed a hash check, meaning that Apple was trying to send me a corrupted file. I tried restarting my computer, but the problem did not go away.
- Due to the above problem, I downloaded the update from Apple's website, and attempted to install it myself.
- Things went well until it wanted to restart, at which point the screen became completely garbled (it reminded me of a Windows 98 crash) and the computer kept trying to restart, but could not. The screen would go grey, then the garbled screen would re-appear.
- In the end, my only option was to hold down the power button to turn off the computer.
- Upon restarting, the computer proceeded to the main grey screen with the Apple logo, and then restarted.
- The second time around, it go almost to the login screen, up to the point where the mouse cursor was workable. It restarted again.
- Third time was the charm, the computer came back online and thankfully everything was OK.
Macs are just "supposed to work". This didn't. It sucked. I upgraded my 6 year old Dell to Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope last week and that went down a lot better. Easier to upgrade Linux than OS X? Who would have predicted this day would come.
The lesson to be learned is to backup your computer often, to an external hard drive. And don't just assume things will work, even if its from Apple.
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