Overall, are you happy with Snow Leopard?

[paulsalter]

That's an immature attitude. Do you realize that the Finder is now showing you the correct sizes? Also, it doesn't handle files any differently.

So Finder is now right

What about other Apple apps
What about 3rd party apps
What about internet file sizes

If everything had changed then i would agree, the way apple has made this change is pathetic

As for claiming the post immature, thats is rich coming from you

 

[Hellhammer]

My positive and negative thoughts:

Positive:

- Overall snappiness
- Expose: better organized
- iChat: less bandwitch needed, better audio and video quality
- Time Machine: it's really faster

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Negative:

- iChat: no support for MSN or Skype
- Few bugs
- No adblocker for 64-bit Safari (yet)
- Some apps like OnyX doesn't work

IMO, it was worth the 29€

 

[Shake 'n' Bake]

Overall, I really like SL. Finder is much much faster, especially when browsing my server's iTunes music folder. It was slow and choppy in Leopard.

On the downside, Safari is way more crash prone. It crashes when I try to upload attachments to MR and sometimes for no reason at all. Another thing: changing the background of the Finder windows doesn't work. Xbench score is basically the same.

 

[TheSpaz]

Overall, I really like SL. Finder is much much faster, especially when browsing my server's iTunes music folder. It was slow and choppy in Leopard.

On the downside, Safari is way more crash prone. It crashes when I try to upload attachments to MR and sometimes for no reason at all. Another thing: changing the background of the Finder windows doesn't work. Xbench score is basically the same.

I can change the background in my Finder windows. Weird.

 

[Shake 'n' Bake]

I can change the background in my Finder windows. Weird.

It only works with some photos. I want to use the "Rings" desktop background, but it just doesn't work. The "Lines" series work, and that's about it. Haven't tried any personal photos yet, however.

 

[OllyW]

I've only had 2 problems so far since upgrading.

After installing Snow Leopard, I couldn't connect to the internet over AirPort on my MBP but that was quickly solved and I'm getting now much better connection speeds.

And I've lost support for my Samsung laser printer, but to be fair it has never been officially supported under OS X.

With the performance improvements and the (admittedly few) new features I think it's well worth the £25 upgrade.

 

[Maury]

Thanks for that great help, but you could be right about switching to another OS

Let's have another vote: who here believes paulsalter will switch to another OS because of the GB/GiB issue?

I vote "no".

Maury

 

[Maury]

My positive and negative thoughts:
- iChat: no support for MSN or Skype

Yeah, seriously. It's not like there's enough free code out there that does this. Get on with it already.

- No adblocker for 64-bit Safari (yet)

Have you tried the .css style sheet that does this? It works surprisingly well.

Maury

 

[Chupa Chupa]

OP: you left out the option to go back to OS9 in your poll. I'm sure someone here hates OS X; thinks its the crappiest OS ever and that OS9 rocks it and Apple should never have stopped developing it.

 

[macridah]

easy update for me, only thing I really had to do is wait ~45 minutes.

I thought my HP all-in-one printer software was messed up, but the HP software doesn't work cuz apple supports it natively.

For example--now I don't have to use the complicated hp scan pro software, etc, and just go straight to preview or image capture. And like always, much more simple the apple way. nice.

 

[runebinder]

I'd be happier if it continued what it started in the UI changes, for instance when you right click on a dock icon, the background is now black to match the stack view. Its really time for a dark menu bar option to match that. All this combined with the dock makes the user interface seem very mismatched and piece meal. But if I'm only complaining about a lack of advance in UI, things are overall good.

Got to agree that this is my major gripe with Snow Leopard, really like the white on black Dock right click menu's and annoyed that Apple didn't uniform them all, why are right click menu's everywhere else the normal black on white, plus add to that the black window theme for Quicktime X and it starts looking a bit mismatched. It's a shame as if they had done a complete theme with that, I for one would have been very happy. Also noticed my MBP runs a bit hotter than it did in Leopard. Last gripe is that you still have to log out when switching between the 9400m and the 9600m gt, would have thought they'd have fixed that.

However it is just 2 minor things and an aesthetic issue, overall I like SL, generally feels faster and more responsive, like all the little minor tweaks and additions, plus think it's a good solid foundation and really stable: no crashes for me

Can't wait to see how it handles in 6 months to a years time once GDC and Open CL is properly utilised by publishers.

 

[amoergosum]

I did a clean install today.
LOVE it!
Everything is faster.

 

[TheSpaz]

Got to agree that this is my major gripe with Snow Leopard, really like the white on black Dock right click menu's and annoyed that Apple didn't uniform them all, why are right click menu's everywhere else the normal black on white, plus add to that the black window theme for Quicktime X and it starts looking a bit mismatched. It's a shame as if they had done a complete theme with that, I for one would have been very happy. Also noticed my MBP runs a bit hotter than it did in Leopard. Last gripe is that you still have to log out when switching between the 9400m and the 9600m gt, would have thought they'd have fixed that.

However it is just 2 minor things and an aesthetic issue, overall I like SL, generally feels faster and more responsive, like all the little minor tweaks and additions, plus think it's a good solid foundation and really stable: no crashes for me

Can't wait to see how it handles in 6 months to a years time once GDC and Open CL is properly utilised by publishers.

Leopard's Dock was more inconsistent than Snow Leopard's Dock. Leopard's Dock had white menus on some icons, and stacks were black and the 2D Dock is black. I would hate it if Apple made all of the menus black, that would look ugly.

 

[runebinder]

Leopard's Dock was more inconsistent than Snow Leopard's Dock. Leopard's Dock had white menus on some icons, and stacks were black and the 2D Dock is black. I would hate it if Apple made all of the menus black, that would look ugly.

Personally I'd really like it, would be nice to be given a choice in themes, supposed I'm too used to Windows in that regard lol.

 

[Axemantitan]

I installed it about a week ago after using 10.4.11 on my mid-2007 MacBook with 2 GB RAM. So far, I have noticed that I have 2 GB more hard disk space available (and this is after having already used XSlimmer on my previous OS version) and that video quality in VLC appears better, in my opinion, than before (I originally tested that with VLC version 0.9.10 that I already had installed, though I have since upgraded to version 1.0.3 and it still better than 0.9.10 under Mac OS 10.4.)

I have also noticed that applications start slightly faster and that my wireless connection to my cable modem is more stable. There are fewer drop-offs in the connection and they are easily remedied by turning Airport off and then on again. It only takes a couple of seconds to get going again, whereas it would take several minutes in 10.4. Also, these drop-offs occur only once per day or even more seldom than that, whereas under 10.4 they would occur daily or even several times per day.

For the above poll that I started (and am now finally able to answer), I would put myself in the top category. It is noticeably better than 10.4 and I am happy with it.

 

[Techhie]

That's an immature attitude. Do you realize that the Finder is now showing you the correct sizes?

No, it is just calculating them differently. In many cases it can be way off, and the previous method more accurate.

 

[Axemantitan]

No, it is just calculating them differently. In many cases it can be way off, and the previous method more accurate.

I noticed this myself. I was preparing a disc to burn, and when I used Get Info on the folder that the items were in, it reported the size of the folder as 3.98 GB. When I transferred the items into my disc burning application, it reported their size as 3.7 GB. This discrepancy didn't exist in OS 10.4.