Front Row performance on the mini takes a dive with Snow Leopard

MacBook 2.0Ghz 3GB RAM GMA950 and yes. . .FrontRow problems too. When scrolling the menus, it is very choppy and blurry. When loading a movie there is usually a long pause before the video starts playing. Also my fans kick on frequently now, in Leopard it did not.

I did an upgrade over my previous install of Leopard 10.5.8 and I see the speed increase with the native apps, but almost all of my third party apps are "broken" now and cannot be loaded since Snow Leopard doesn't support them. It has been extremely frustrating and now I'm trying to figure out the easiest way to downgrade back to Leopard 10.5.8 just to get my system feeling solid again and especially better FrontRow performance. My wife and I use my MacBook to watch movies all of the time and even now she is annoyed with how much time I spend fiddling with it and trying to troubleshoot performance issues. This is exactly how I used to use my Windows PCs, constantly tinkering trying to improve performance and never actually "using" my computer. I consider myself a "fanboy" but I think I've had enough of the Snow Leopard experiment for now. It's either I purchase a new Mac or wait for fixes, that's my dilemma with Snow Leopard right now.

Yet another reason why I won't be upgrading right now

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Not only is Front Row less responsive under Snow Leopard (especially when using media from my Air Disk), but there's a new issue when using my Apple Remote (and Rowmote for iPhone) to control Plex, it also controls my volume, launches Front Row, etc. I picked a bad time to upgrade my HTPC to Snow Leopard.

I wondering why they haven't updated Frontrow at all.

It still has all the same bugs and it's not 64 bit :S

And I wish they got rid of the Apple TV interface for Frontrow because it doesn't fit with OS X at all.

I just discovered I have the same problem on my core2duo mini. (smooth scrolling in Front Row menus is just a memory). Now to the interesting part: I'm still in *LEOPARD* - I don't know exactly when the problem started, but I suspect it was after the recent Apple Leopard update, to 10.5.8.

Can anyone confirm?

Front Row performance on my Core Duo 1.66 Mac mini blew chunks in later builds of Leopard. Plex is rocking 1080p rips under both Leopard and SL on my mini.

Everyting is working fine on my CoreDuo Mini With the GMA950 chipset.

I have our Intel core 2 duo Mac Mini hooked up to our HDTV. I upgraded because I had read that SL adds 1080p support for dvi output. After the upgrade I have the option to set the output to 1080i. ( highest setting our TV goes to) However, watching rip...ah..er...backed up dvds from an external drive is severely choppy. Everything is fine if I set it to 720p. I figured this was a limitation of the hardware. It would be cool if it is only a bug.

A lot of people missed the point here.... This is not a "problem" but a "feature": anything older than the Unibody MacBook pros is considered legacy hardware.

QuickTime X only supports 9400+ GPUs, and I don't expect 10.7 to change anything in two years (4 years old machines at that time, wow.... ).

So as sad as it sounds, just prepare yourself to buy new computers if you still think Mac OS X is worth any kind of sacrifice ( personally: if I'm going to have to change everything every two years, it's going to get above my means quickly, and not worth it anymore, considering that to the price of my hardware and OS X, I still have to add the price of a VMWare license, and the price of a Windows license too if I want to play my games ).

I haven't upgraded yet.. but i won't if this cause problems for Bootcamp since I use Vista MC for my HTPC front end needs..