Re: snow leopard- worth it?

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ed <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

so snow leopard has been out a couple weeks now- so is it worth the
upgrade? i'm looking from a 'now' perspective- not a 'it makes a lot
of underhood changes that will be leveraged later on' perspective...
is it noticeably speedier (especially on a machine WITHOUT a nvidia
card)? seems like older benchmarks might actually take a performance
hit (which implies older apps might as well?)?

so are the improvements(?) worth the additional crashes many are
reporting?

Snow Leopard if anything seems more reliable here. No kernel panics or
system-wide freezes (then again, statistically I wouldn't have expected
any in the month or so I've been running it), and app crashes seem
reduced (except for two apps I had with specific Snow Leopard issues,
both of which have now been updated).

The real reason to install it is all the nice new touches, which take a
while to notice. You'll probably boot it up for the first time and
wonder what's new, and then spend the next couple of weeks noticing
little things. Some of them are related to performance, some of them
not. Here are a few that haven't been widely commented on:

- 1080p resolutions show up reliably now when connecting to TVs and
projectors.
- The system more reliably moves windows from a laptop's built-in screen
to a newly connected external display if that new display is
designated as the main screen.
- Progress bars in Finder copies move more smoothy.
- There's built-in support for many more scanners, even for things like
optional automatic document feeders (see Image Capture).
- A bunch of subtle animations have been added to the Finder.
- You can optionally minimize windows into their owning apps' Dock icons.

There are a bunch more. It really does seem like Apple engineers just
went through the entire system with a fine-toothed comb, made lists of
all the little annoyances that wouldn't normally be considered large
enough to actually assign resources to fixing, and went and fixed a lot
of them.

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