Well, after it took me several hours to get this installed, I'm wondering why I bothered. I never was able to get it to install on my desktop machine, but have it running on my laptop.
Desktop-G4 PowerMac: Tried 3 times, got 'unknown error' all 3 times after it verified the DVD. 4th time, it worked, but wouldn't upgrade, had to install on another volume. Did so. Tried to transfer my data, didn't work. Just put it on there clean, got it working. Opened Safari, it crashed. Opened Mail, it crashed. Said forget it, I'll use the old OS on this, moved on to the:
Laptop-G4 as well: Installed with some minor issues initially. Not locating my drive being the biggest. Eventually worked.
After using this afternoon now, I have to say I feel like Safari/Wifi is markedly slower. In fact, its like I'm on a bad EDGE connection. Desktop is zippping right along on the old OS and its even a slower machine. So its not my cable/internet connection.
As far as features, I can say the only really useful addition for me is Spaces. That's awesome. Everything else is just extra and eye candy. Coverflow is a great way to look through your files if you have a lot of time to waste or don't have many files. I use my machines professionally all day, every day. I'll be sticking with the list view. Stacks is pretty worthless.
I knew buying this that it wasn't a real upgrade. I bought it anyway. Now I'm not only a little disappointed, but kinda upset that my machine actually seems slower than it was before, namely Safari/WiFi. Apple bloated the OS with a lot of gadgets that may appeal to soccer mom's, but in general the OS was already great for workflow, so not much they could have really done except to speed it up.
