Just wondering what people actually think of their brand new Snow Leopard. Have you noticed much difference or do you feel like it was a waste of money?
As for me, I’ve noticed a few improvements but there are currently three things that annoy me, two of them not being Apple’s fault however. The first two are applications that don’t yet work in Snow Leopard, namely Reader Notifier and Logitech Control Center. I can live without Reader Notifier for a while, I can just go via Google Reader itself, although it’s not something I like doing. But living without Logitech Control Center when you have a Logitech mouse is very painful. I use both Exposé and Spaces and I activate them by tilting the scroll wheel left and right, living without that really hurts my workflow. The third thing is that they’ve changed the Play/Pause key to not just play and pause, but it actually launches iTunes as well. This is frustrating as I use other media players as well, I pause the music/video in another player and suddenly iTunes starts playing.
Exposé seems to have improved which is nice, it was a little buggy for me in Leopard, I also like that you can alt+tab within Exposé, very useful if you use many windows and Spaces (I use 4 Spaces). Another thing is that the image thumbnails loads a lot faster, and of course Quicktime X is amazing. When/if Perian adds support for .mkv files to it, I’ll most likely stop using VLC. EDI (02/09/2009 5:18 PM): If you install NicePlayer you’ll be able to open .mkv files in Quicktime X!
Other than that I haven’t noticed much difference, except for it being snappier than Leopard.
After installing Snow Leopard I’ve also switched from Firefox to Safari. Safari is incredibly fast in comparison and doesn’t munch on your CPU like Firefox does. I didn’t use a lot of plugins either, the only thing I miss is Rikaichan, but hopefully LiveDictionary will add support for Snow Leopard soon!
So what do you think and did you make a fresh install or did you install it over your Leopard installation right away like I did?
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See that is the difference between mac people and apple people. In windows world EVERYTHING is Microsofts fault even if it is 3rd party vendors problem that is causing headaches. In Mac more people seem to be honest that it is a 3rd party. so Bravo.
the alt+tab in expose sounds kind of funny, but cool.
I’m experiencing the same issues with iTunes starting, and it’s really annoying me. If I use the remote to control my Apple TV or iPod on the complete other side of the room, iTunes starts even though my Mac is nowhere near the remote or what it’s being pointed at.
Oh geez that’s even worse! I hope they’ll fix that soon =/
As much as I appreciate my MBP, it’s dying and I’m thinking my next laptop purchase will be a cheap, Windows 7 laptop. I do a lot of traveling, and my traveling took a heavy toll on this 3500 USD laptop. Instead of trashing another Mac in 2.5 years, I’m going to get a cheap Win7 laptop to use until I get back to the US. Then I’ll get a nice Mac desktop and maybe even another MB.
That being said, I can’t see upgrading this one to Snow Leopard when it could give up completely at any moment.
I see, that makes sense. I’d buy a netbook if I did a lot of traveling, and I’d run Ubuntu’s netbook remix on it^^
Funny you should mention that. I have a friend in Rome that just put Ubuntu’s netbook remix on an old S10 I think she said. She said it runs significantly faster than XP SP3 and is quite satisfied with it. If I can find a laptop that I can buy without an OS that would be great, because I actually have a legit XP disc in my closet, or I could use Ubuntu or whatever type of Linux I thought would be easy to use and fun. I’ve been really curious about Linux lately. Thinking about putting it on my wife’s old laptop for fun. She’s always complaining about how slow it is anyway.
I upgraded. Having a problem that since I upgraded I am faced with garbage text when I input Japanese in Microsoft word and other MS Office apps. Anyone know how to re-enable Japanese input after upgrading?
Otherwise the upgrade is fine. I’ll prolly swirh back to safari also.
That’s strange, Japanese input works just fine for me, although I don’t use the MS Office apps, weird if it’s just in those apps… Did you ask if someone else is having the same problem? If it’s just MS Office there should prolly be a fix for it soon…
Good to hear that everything else works fine!
Upgrade works fine for me, with just one or two minor bugs. When I’m saving a file in Safari and search in the Finder for the folder I want to save to, it freezes upon download completion. Doesn’t bug me much since I can just drag and drop anyway, but I do hope it’ll be fixed eventually.
I’ve yet to experience the play button thing since I’m still away from my home setup. I’ll see if it does the same for me next week!
I am glad to hear OSX users got problems to, so it’s not just Windows that has bugs and problems at start. But since more people use it you hear a lot more complaints about XP.
Haha, there are very few issues in comparison though. The ones I listed aren’t Apple’s fault either, except for the play/pause thing which isn’t a bug, but a feature they seem to have added. Issues like this are bound to happen to pretty much all new operating systems. I’m not saying that OS X is a perfect operating system though, there’s no such thing as a perfect operating system.
Oh and you should be comparing it to Vista or Windows 7, not an 8 year old operating system like XP^^
I try to avoid Vista as long as possible, never had it, saw it on a few PC’s and don’t want it. Windows 7 maybe, I rather wait till they release a few fixes.
Unfortunately I still don’t have the money to buy my 4000€ Mac. But a friend of mine bought a 13″ MBP yesterday at a local Apple retailer.
They said there’s a web upgrade uption for Snow Leopard.. but all he did find after the unboxing was the FAIL-piece-of-paper with instructions. He would have to fax !!! his serial number to Cupertino and would receive a DVD after that!
@hikky
LMAO What is Apple doing?
That beats me. Well, he bought the 29€ package today.