Well it’s here finally, I ordered mine from Amazon for a cool price of £22.99 delivered and for that you get a tiny little box that looks exactly how any apple user would expect.. Beautiful.
Once opened (bloody shrinkwrap) you can upgrade within Leopard or do as I did reboot, hold down “C” and install from scratch and repartition the laptops drive… I choose this so it was a clean OS install and my work, music and apps we’re saved on my time capsule anyway…
Well once the install went through I got the first run wizard like any other time, this was crunch time would Snow recognise my Leopard time machine backups? Yes it did indeed… 30 minutes later after a full restore of my documents, etc I was happily typing this with all my applications, preferences, documents, etc working perfectly.
The new redesign of Snow seems to have made a big difference with my MacBook and has made the following big impressions within minutes of using it:
- The dock is now much smoother, and more snappy when clicking using the tackpad
- I am able to open apps such as iTunes, iPhoto, Pages and Keynote at the same time with very little lag, the whole experience seems more snappy.
- Quicktime now looks better, no more silver borders round the windows…
- The footprint of memory for the OS has been reduced by about 5Gb of my machine… so clearly they’ve had a spring clean!
All in all this is well worth the £23 so far… It’s a small price to pay to prepare your Mac for the latest software, etc.
I will post updates if I find anything else of interest…
For now, drool over the screen-casts on YouTube…
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