Full FeedSnow Leopard as we go; the first week
Well, we are about a week or so into Apple’s new operating system release, Snow Leopard, and all we’ve gotten are wallpapers and disk space. It certainly has been an interesting announcement and release, as people on the Internet have been discussing the price and whether it even constitutes a new operating system at all. But that’s neither here nor there. And while I’ve gotten my hands on a copy of Snow Leopard for only $10 (through the Up To Date program), I have yet to install it. I certainly have reasons for this, but I also wanted to provide my thoughts on the popular consensus of this release.
The main reason I haven’t installed Snow Leopard is because I haven’t had time. However, that wasn’t the case at all with Leopard. While Snow Leopard is certainly exciting with it’s stability fixes, Leopard offered so many new features that I planned my other social events around it and installed it the first day. Although I certainly want to be running the latest and greatest from Apple, I don’t feel as if I’m in any rush to add this install to my laptop. However, this isn’t the only reason. I’ve also been closely watching the Snow Leopard compatibility wiki to make sure the applications I need to work will function in Mac OS 10.6. So far, it has been looking pretty good.
All of that said, it appears as if the public has taken the Snow Leopard release well. With some amazing marketing by Apple, it appears as if this $30 upgrade has made its way to many Apple users around the world, and even earlier than expected. While the switch from 32 bit operating to 64 bit hasn’t been an easy one for either Microsoft or Apple, I believe it will definitely pay off in the end. As far as Snow Leopard goes, Apple seems to have done a really great job of making the back end work as nicely as possible with existing applications and uses. While some apps simply don’t work, there haven’t been any deal breaking issues as far as I’ve heard.
Nonetheless, it appears as if Apple is hard at work with an upgrade already, so hopefully many of the existing issues will be fixed. I plan to install Snow Leopard this weekend as my Labor Day fun (yeah, I know, I’m a geek), so we’ll see how it turns out for me.
How was your first week with Snow Leopard?
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I can certainly see why some people feel that Snow Leopard is the equivalent of a Service Pack for Windows, but even though we can’t necessarily see the improvements and additions made to Mac OS X, there’s still a lot that’s been upgraded and improved. It’s more paving the way for the future, rather than ‘the future’.
Still, hope you get a smooth install. Let us know how it goes.
on September 4, 2009 at 01:10 PM - LINKEverything’s been running quite well under Snow Leopard this week. I was glad that it didn’t feel like I was turning my life upside down to use it. This really was a small update, but I think the price was appropriate. It really does feel like all the OSX metaphors are as tidy as they’re going to get. I’m really hoping that this is a sign that the next OS is going to be something to go gaga over. $30 is really easy to shell out and there’s little updates here are there that make me feel like I did get something for my money. I just hope that with Apple stripping out features of Quicktime Pro (fine for me, since I only wanted full screen and tripping anyway) and with Adobe seemingly doing less and less for the Mac platform, that we’re not seeing the end of Macs as professional tools.
I really see Apple headed towards a consumer electronics company like Sony has done. But of course, Apple will do it better. My Bravia TV doesn’t know when my PS3 is on or what else it’s connected to. I can see the Apple ecosystem all using something like Services so everything is improved when you add hardware to your Apple collection.
Of course, this is all off topic. I quite like Snow Leopard, but probably wouldn’t be as crazy about it if it was much more money.
on September 4, 2009 at 03:59 PM - LINKGreat, except Mail keeps crashing and it worked fine with Leopard!
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