Apple’s Mac OS X Snow Leopard Review
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I’m sure you’re still laughing at my impression of a Snow Leopard, in honor of the newest release of Mac OS X. The upgrade is only $30.00, which is an excellent price. You should go out and get it right away, but I’m not sure if you’re ready to install it just yet.
The upgrade was painless. The trick to it is to take the disc out of the sleeve, put it in the drive, and click the Install button… and you’re done. From that point forward, it will show you if your applications are compatible or not.
Some people are saying that Snow Leopard is an awesome upgrade, and others don’t think so as much. I’d say right now, I’m seeing it split pretty evenly. I am enjoying some of the new features, such as Exchange integration on the desktop – it works flawlessly. I haven’t seen much of a speed increase, though. There are some nips and tucks around the operating system. The Finder has been completely re-written, which is awesome.
There are subtle changes, as well. I’m a little leary about putting it on all of my machines. Yes, it’s a great upgrade. The changes are incremental, but I’m not sure if all of my applications are going to be compatible, especially ones that I really need and use. So, I’m going to wait about a month of so to make sure all of my software is updated before I jump in.
What do you think of Snow Leopard? If you’ve installed it already, let me know your thoughts so far. If you have it but haven’t installed it yet – why are you waiting? I’m interested to hear about that, as well.
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10 Comments
Rodney Turner
August 31st, 2009
at 10:41pm
I’m enjoying Snow Leopard a lot. I’ve seen the dramatic boost in my applications. I checked my hard drive before the installation to see the available space and I had about 36gb left. After the install I had 64gb. I’ve also installed on two other macs with Tiger and the performance is great.
Bernie
September 1st, 2009
at 12:00am
Did you get a chance to boot into 64 bit? You have to hold te 6 and 4 during start up. I love it. I really have no complaints yet. Got my colloquy and streamdesk. I’m golden.
Adrian
September 1st, 2009
at 12:20am
the 2 best parts of my snow leopard upgrade that i can boast about are:
1. the annotations in preview (especially for PDF documents – as we get all our uni lecture notes in PDF format)
2. the speed with which the application “Teleport” works, the transition from one computer to another is now flawless, which it wasnt under leopard
yay apple for publishing such a fantastic os
Darren Wilcox
September 1st, 2009
at 1:56am
Hi Chris
I went out a got Snow Leopard on the day of it’s release it cost me a total of £25 from my locale Apple Store hear in the UK. I couldn’t not wait to get it installed I backed all my file’s up the night before as I wanted to do a clean install on my system. It took me about an hour to install that included all my software as well which was great. The install was went without a hitch and took up around 11 to 13 Gig so it has left me gigabytes of space on my system. Which as you probably know every gig count’s when handling media in the form of audio and video. I did have a problem with Mail but cant say 100% sure that it was Snow Leopard that was at fault as I know my email provider was doing some maintenance over the last week which as they have stated could cause loss of email service in some area’s but it’s working now without any problems. One other problem I have had is with my collection of screen savers because they are written in 32bit they wont run on Snow Leopards screen saver engine but am sure a fix is just around the corner. I have noticed a slight increase in performance both in 64bit apps and 32bit apps they seem to be more responsive as well as the actual desktop itself. Quick time look’s very sweet when playing media files and the new re written Finder just adds a little more icing to the cake in term’s of managing my files. The boot time is also quicker both from a cold restart and from the sleep mode so I can’t imagine what it’s going to be like on your SSD im looking forward to hearing your feedback on the SSD side of things as I am looking to purchase a SSD in the future.
For me Snow Leopard is step forward in the OS X series and make’s what was already a great OS even greater and slicker to use. Am happy with the purchase price and also the performance boot’s.
Billy Doyle
September 1st, 2009
at 4:02am
FTFF indeed. There’s always Path Finder!
But anyway, I installed it on both my machines on the first day, and everything is going well! It broke a few little extensions like Soundflower, but all has been fixed. CamTwist has issues with some effects, but Steve G is expecting to have an update out within a week.
All-in-all a great upgrade!
jake
September 1st, 2009
at 1:35pm
I’m really digging Snow Leopard, but I have my fair share of qualms as well. No more cut and pasting Address Book contacts??? Check the rest out here:
http://jakeandjake.blogspot.com/2009/09/qualms-with-snow-leopardbad-kitty.html
Fritz
September 3rd, 2009
at 12:12pm
Running Entourage (MS Office ‘04) in Snow Leopard is crashing all of my open apps about every 45 minutes. The buzz on the blogs says that upgrading to Office ‘08 won’t help. I hope a SL update fixes this.
It’s ALWAYS something …
Robert
September 7th, 2009
at 9:26am
MS office 08 does not work at all after upgrading to SL on my Macbook pro. Others say it works on their Macbook pro, so what the issue is, i don not know. Installed office 08 twice (after removing it wih application). But no luck.
I notice that when word is launched, it freezes at ” loading and optimizing fonts” at splash screen. In Activitymonitor i see an app called Fontcashapp is using 99.9 % of cpu time… so i force quit both ms word and fontcacheap….
Anyone?
Robert
September 7th, 2009
at 12:34pm
Did find solution: check double fonts in fontbook, and delete older fonts…
Should solve the problem!
Robert
Georgehd
September 17th, 2009
at 5:46am
I have not upgraded to Snow Leopard and I am glad that I have not. A number of programs are not ready – Soho Notes, 1Password, Quicken and possibly others. Quicken will not be ready until next year.
My Soho notes has stopped functioning because I upgraded to their latest version which is causing trouble.
All in all, I am happy to still use Leopard. Apple should have waited until developers were really ready to make an upgrade. What we have now is a combination of fixes that I would imagine will cause trouble.