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Snow Leopard's Best Improvement?

Benjamindaines

Benjamindaines

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For those of you that have already installed Snow Leopard and have been using it; in your opinion, what is the best new feature / Improvement over Leopard?
 
Much prefer QT X over previous player. Great to just have a thin border, nothing else when watching. Using 2 finger swipe to skim is also useful.
You get accustomed/Used to Snow Leopard v. quickly.
 
For me the biggest improvements will be HFS+ reading in bootcamp and being able to find out what the hell is still using my usb drives when I try to eject them. Dock expose is cool too.
 
Everything is a bit faster than in Leopard, especially Photoshop. Haven't really noticed anything major yet. Quicktime's screen recording and better iChat are the best so far
 
That is very useful! Though I suspect most of the time it'll just be Pro Tools that grabs control of everything 🙂
 
Not so much an improvement, but I'm happy they finally fixed disc repair. Used to <5 minutes, with Leopard it took 20-30, now with Snow Leopard it's back to <5.

Everything does feel a bit more responsive, but it's unclear to me whether that is because I did a fresh install or whether things are actually better. I think we'll start seeing the real benefit 6 months from now.
 
I'm not done playing with OS 10.6 by long, but at this moment I mostly like the speed increase.
It's rather noticible on my 2,4 alu MacBook. QTX doesn't look too bad either
 
Things just seem so much quicker and smoother for me. I'm really pleased with the speed and the little gui tweaks are nice too.

The dock expose feature is a genius idea too. No need to hunt for specific windows when multitasking.
 
Everything is faster. Xcode, MSOffiec, Safari. Great first impressions.

Not sure what to do with the 4-finger swipe. More learning....
 
You almost have to wonder if this could have just been an update in software update rather than selling a disk as Snow Leopard.
 
One of the small things I'm happy about is you can now show the date in titlebar without any hacks (system preferences > date & time > clock). Also the minimize to app (system preferences > dock) makes the dock look cleaner. Speaking of, upgrading reset the smoke dock mod that I need to find the files for again. aside from that I'm liking it so far
 
I'm running SL for a couple of hours now and everything seems solid. I even got Glims and Safari AdBlock to work (running Safari in 32-bit). I 'm just missing my iStat Menus, but other than that, the overall feeling is that everything is snappier indeed.
Upgrade went smooth, in under an hour, and all the tweaks are welcomed.

I just notice that Airport now has a new animation when searching for Wireless networks. Looks cool 🙂
 
powerbook911 said:
You almost have to wonder if this could have just been an update in software update rather than selling a disk as Snow Leopard.
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It'd be a pretty huge download. Almost everything changed, sometimes in rather significant ways (although generally not visible ones).
 
Catfish_Man said:
It'd be a pretty huge download. Almost everything changed, sometimes in rather significant ways (although generally not visible ones).
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Right. There are many things addressed in this version that just could not have been easily done through a service pack. If it made more sense practically and financially, they would've done a download, but it was just easily to offer a new version.
 
VSMacOne said:
I'm running SL for a couple of hours now and everything seems solid. I even got Glims and Safari AdBlock to work (running Safari in 32-bit). I 'm just missing my iStat Menus, but other than that, the overall feeling is that everything is snappier indeed.
Upgrade went smooth, in under an hour, and all the tweaks are welcomed.

I just notice that Airport now has a new animation when searching for Wireless networks. Looks cool 🙂
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One wierd thing is that iStat is working on my older iMac, but not on my new UMB.
 
In addition to some of the items mentioned above, I like the Set Desktop Background option in Finder. Also the ability to upload videos to Mobile Me from within QT.
 
All you fancy young folk with your new-fangled 64-bit processors!

Back in my day,.... well...

I have a Core Duo. 32-bit dual core Macbook Pro.

I don't see these speed increases, obviously. However, I have run into bugs already.

My favorite feature is the use of minimize is back with Exposé's preview option showing the minimized stuff. It's VERY useful and screen organizing.
 
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