However, I realized that all my network printers refused to work (I love how when you upgrade a new OS you always waste hours troubleshooting things that worked fine before!)

I cannot say enough good things about Snow Leopard

The only thing that "broke" with the installation was Smith Micro's Internet Cleanup, which is a buggy thing that often caused kernel panics on my Macbook anyway

freed up almost 20gb of space on my internal drive, externals load and eject with greater reliability, apps load faster, the one odd thing i've noticed is the trash takes a while to empty now, potentially connected to the new file system that freed up all that space

It speeds the computer up and refines several things.

It makes finding things a lot easier

Clean up some old files and free up space on the hard drive -- always a nice thing since I seem to be constantly running out of space.

One unexpected thing is that Mail runs much faster.

Worked wonders for my old apple laptop, makes the whole thing feel a lot faster

One of the great things about OS X is that you can clone a hard drive from one Mac to another completely different type of Mac -- in my case, from an 8-core Mac Pro tower

This "under the hood" upgrade paves the way for many great things to happen in the world of OS X software

After the Mac started up the first thing I did (and encourage) is to check for updates after the installation, none were required

after upgrading the memory and drive, it did worked perfectly on my macbook A1181 2.13 ghz mid 2009 and is easy to install.it is good thing to have this cd for future use.

Little things like this have make this upgrade not as smooth as I had hoped, and definitely not as smooth as past upgrades, which for the most part have been flawless

First thing I noticed is that I gained about 7GB

I like this OS just fine but the only thing I didn't realize that there were a lot of upgrades I needed to do on other software.

You also gain 7GB of disk space just by installing Snow Leopard without losing a single thing...something Microsoft could never do (at this point) and there's nothing wrong with

The first thing that you would probably notice after you're with installation, is that as promised by Apple, you'll get about 6GB of hard space back which is great

the funny thing is they all look the same to me..

(The way they give up is by saying, "Well the only thing left to do is a clean install of the OS, not preserving network preferences, and see if that works

It takes less time.(-)The most annoying thing is how they measure size

oh well...I have since upgraded to 10.6.1 and hopefully things run much smoother but overall, things worked well.

oh well...I have since upgraded to 10.6.1 and hopefully things run much smoother but overall, things worked well.

It crashed the whole thing and corrupted the hard drive.

but overall, things work fine.

Those are the 2 best things about the upgrade I have noticed so far

Maybe I am missing things I am yet to explore

Two important things

However, screw enough little things like this up and you'll drive us away

I went through with it and here are a few things that I experienced (positive and negative things I found thus far):POSITIVES:

Yeah, the kernel starts in 32-bit mode by default, but that is a VERY good thing, for compatibility with older drivers and other third party software that is not yet updated

It is the BEST, fastest, most dependable, most reliable computing thing I have EVER laid hands on

The only thing that I didn't like about this disc is that it only works for 1 Mac.

I can type my login until they work things out with Apple

It gets your computer ready for the "next great thing" from Apple, and does so seamlessly and (almost) effortlessly

This isn't a bad thing, since greater system reliability is more important than adding bells and whistles that ultimately take away from the user experience (i.e. Vista).EXPERIENCEI have only installed it on only one computer so far (running on an Intel chip and 4GB of RAM), but installation was a breeze, and Snow Leopard has been running smoothly so far

The most remarkable thing about Snow Leopard is simply that it can be installed on a Mac running Tiger

I reverted to Leopard (10.5.8) and other than wasting a whole day of my time and hers, things are back to normal.

Some things I wish to see later are an anti-theft gadget like Lo-Jack, and maybe free anti-virus installed, although I have good things to say about Symantec aside from the elevated annual subscription fee

One good thing though: system boots up and shuts down remarkably fast now

Applications that are no longer under active development, however, you can expect to lose permanently if you make this upgrade, unless Apple steps up to the plate and does the right thing

That works for their world as most things are free of charge

No huge new bells and whistles, but it does clean things up, and makes the OS footprint smaller

Why did I give it 4-stars?Nothing major went wrong, I have great hope for a 64-bit Apple future, the zero-effort ease of installing my new printer suggests great things to come and Snow Leopard didn't cost much.

You need to do a restart which doesn't guarantee things will come back working.

Makes things a lot faster

Apple did release a 10.6.1 update as of today (09/10/09) that corrects a few things such as the version of Adobe Flash being a vulnerable one

so things like Facebook will be useless very soon with this OS and older macs.

First, it is a good thing

The best thing about Snow Leopard is the hard drive space gained from the installation.

I spend $25 on this software, the damn thing didn't worked because it requires a intel-processor.

What happened was that only 3.2G was available because consumers were running a 32bit OS and not all the RAM can be used unless consumers were running a 64bit OS