Apple: Yeah, Snow Leopard Is Worth It

August 30th, 2009

Been working in Snow Leopard all of yesterday and today; thoughts follow.

The Good

The Bad

Conclusion

While this OS X update doesn’t introduce as many new features as Leopard, it was never advertised as such and is priced accordingly. $29 is a fair price. I feel the speed and future stability will allow me to earn that $29 in productivity and then some.

6 Comments

  1. Timmargh says:

    I’m loving it, too — it’s much zippier than I anticipated.

    I got the upgrade for £7.95 thanks to the Up To Date program :)

  2. Mike says:

    Both iStat Menus and MenuMeters will be available soon. Waiting anxiously!

    Maybe it’s just the placebo effect, but it feels like things are faster after a clean install. I made time for one of those, and so far I think it’s been worth it.

  3. webomatica says:

    yeah kinda surprising how much I now realize I was using those
    utilities. Got used to glancing up at the menu bar to see how fast the
    network was going, what temperature the CPUs were, etc.

  4. papa says:

    Thankfully I only installed it on my mini so far. It broke a bunch of apps which are slowly releasing patches and getting updated. My mp3 squeezecenter server software broke rendering my stereo impotent :-(

    I dread having to go back and reinstall 64 bit ruby, rails, mysql, imagemagick and the like. I may hold off on upgrading the macbook for a few weeks while I see if there are any other kinks with the desktop.

  5. Mike says:

    Ooh, slightly more fancy, too.