[mackandproud]

Long time Mac user, but rarely have I gushed over Apple software or hardware before. I LOVE Snow Leopard. Let me count the ways.

1. price. $25. That's just stupid good.
2. fonts are smoother
3. graphics are smoother
4. quicktime is absolutely pimp. The borders disappear and the controller box is tiny and minimalistic.
5. frees up disk space (13 GB in my case)
6. some gorgeous new nature desktop wallpapers

I'm a casual Word/web user, so I can't enumerate everything. But everything seems so polished and effortless. The price for what you get is crazy. Kudos!

[CharlesS]

I haven't been able to reproduce the NVidia graphics lockup that was driving me crazy with Leopard yet. I'm going to wait and see for a while before I say anything for sure, but if this was indeed something in the drivers that got fixed, then that alone is worth the price of admission.

[mackandproud]

One more thing that's cool. Not sure if it's an SL feature or if I just discovered it by happenstance. DVD player lets you watch the movie without the disk spinning all the time. Glorious silence!

I just discovered it in the course of re-calibrating my battery (unplugging the power adapter). I discovered I could watch the movie without that continual whirring noise. I reset the parameters in power adapter to those appearing in battery after calibrating, and beautiful silence while watching a DVD. Who woulda thunk?

[imitchellg5]

I was about to type a response in Windows 7 but the whole thing froze up. Back on OS X. Yes I love Snow Leopard.

[64stang06]

I've had 1 GUI freeze since installing SL on my MacBook Pro, but have not been able to reproduce it since. No matter, the OS has been rock solid since day 1. Can't say the same thing about Leopard, which was installed when version 10.5.3 hit the streets.

[mackandproud]

Leopard was a strange one. So, so many updates yet they could never iron out the bugs.

1. Qucktime was just disappointing. They just couldn't get this player to the point where it would display video without white (or green or red) border lines showing up on the scene.

2. Updating itself was almost traumatic. The last couple of updates wouldn't even start up the computer properly. You'd just get stuck at the blue screen and have to hard restart.

3. General sluggishness and bloat. It wasn't as slow as Tiger, but it never felt effortless. It was always bogging down on something. And I could never figure out how to make use of all those useful features. The more features you implement, the more time it takes to figure out how to use them. Sometimes less is more.

On a superficial note, I am really diggin' some of these new plant and nature desktops. So beautiful. And you can create your own slideshow of photos as a screensaver as well. Little touches that brighten one's day. Way to go, Apple.

[patrix]

Who put snow on my Leopard? Steve Jobs did!

I want Snow on my Leopard, not in my backyard!!!!

Yes please, put that Snow on my Leopard... ooh yeah!!!


I got a 32bit Core Duo original Macbook @ 2.0GHz.. And I'm happy. I know I won't get the fancy stuff, but I know software will work on my Mac for at least a couple more years till slowly 32bit phases out.. and if Finder is any indication of what GCD and the other improvements can do, I'm looking forward to other apps getting the SL treatment! (itunes, ilife, iwork, browsers, etc).

User experience-wise, it's all the little improvements and little details that add up to a big WOW for me, the smoothness of it, nothing jerky (ya hear that? GMA 950 and it works GREAT), nothing glaring at me or useless like the eye candy in Win7. It all makes sense, and all flows together, like snowflakes falling... not in my backyard!

Patrix.

[64stang06]

Originally Posted by patrix 

Who put snow on my Leopard? Steve Jobs did!

I want Snow on my Leopard, not in my backyard!!!!

Yes please, put that Snow on my Leopard... ooh yeah!!!


I got a 32bit Core Duo original Macbook @ 2.0GHz.. And I'm happy. I know I won't get the fancy stuff, but I know software will work on my Mac for at least a couple more years till slowly 32bit phases out.. and if Finder is any indication of what GCD and the other improvements can do, I'm looking forward to other apps getting the SL treatment! (itunes, ilife, iwork, browsers, etc).

User experience-wise, it's all the little improvements and little details that add up to a big WOW for me, the smoothness of it, nothing jerky (ya hear that? GMA 950 and it works GREAT), nothing glaring at me or useless like the eye candy in Win7. It all makes sense, and all flows together, like snowflakes falling... not in my backyard!

Patrix.

I think I noticed more of an improvement on my 2.0GHz Core Duo Macbook than on my Unibody MacBook Pro. Not saying my MBP didn't benefit, but I think the MacBook feels much smoother and quicker than with Leopard.

[richwig83]

To the OP:-

BUT SL is just an update... i dont see 25GBP as being particularly good JFM!