Wired Educator

Before you upgrade your school’s Macinotsh Computers to Snow Leopard, Apple’s newest operating system, you might want to wait for a few important updates.  Many Smartboard users have shared  various problems after upgrading to Snow Leopard.

Smart Notebook on my computer would not work at all after the Snow Leopard install.  Other users mentioned various problems ranging from issues with Smart Response not working, to crashes, complete inability to start the program, issues with flash, letters connecting, problems with the receiver, and MORE!  (Yikes: Click HERE to read discussions on the problems.)

Smart Technologies has no comment on the problems, however Twitter’s @SMART_Tech responded to @justcombs and @wozzza tweets that a fix is on its way for this Fall.  Discussion boards also suggest an update soon.

Snow Leopard also broke my compatibility with my school’s color printer, (I’m still searching for that printer driver fix) and will not run FileMaker Pro 8 at all.  FileMaker told me to purchase FileMaker Pro 10.  Yep, it’s expensive.

I really like Snow Leopard, but I am disappointed developers and Apple did not prepare us for a smoother transition.  Snow Leopard was indeed announced two years ago.

Please Post a comment if you are aware of any other incompatibilities teachers need to know about before upgrading to Snow Leopard.

Wired Educator gives a thank you to Justin Combs for the heads-up on the Smartboard issues with Snow Leopard. He was the catalyst for this story.

We will post an update as soon as we receive word of a fix.

Wired Educator will now continue the school year with regular weekly updates.  Send us your suggestions for posts.

Have an awesome school year.