Snow Leopard vs. Leopard

Curious: What's the verdict so far?

 

Faster shutdown is the main one I noticed. Finder doesn't seem any
better.

That is a handy feature.

Some other features I noticed which I like:

- Dock Exposé.
- Minimising windows into the application instead of the right end of
the Dock.
- Finder search results window has more customization of columns.
- Ejecting disk which fails tells you which application is using it.
- iCal has regained an "inspector".
- More scanning support built into Image Capture and Preview.
- More information in the Airport and Battery menus.

Some I don't like:

- Dropping support for creator codes. I haven't struck this in a big way
but I expect it to be inconvenient.
- Teething problems with printer drivers. Hopefully get better over
time.
- Not enough customization of Finder search results. I want Size!

Some people might not like these:

- AppleTalk is gone. (I have a workaround.)
- File sharing with Mac OS 9 only possible with SL as the client, not
the server. (Both ways were broken prior to 10.6.2.)

Probably still a few "early bugs" which need to be sorted out. I have to
test my Firewire DVD writer again with 10.6.2 - it wasn't quite working
properly with 10.6 and 10.6.1 (only recognised as a burner if a readable
disc was in the drive when it was connected to the computer).

No.

(I'm willing to accept it. The menus look weirdly different to
everything else, though.)

If your network configuration permits, you could have solved that by
using Screen Sharing to the server and running the admin tools directly
on the server.

I'm having to do that (over the Internet) for some aspects of managing a
10.5 server from 10.6. There are some bits of the 10.6 server admin
tools which don't support 10.5 server.

 

It's been OK for me, I got it as a pre-order and I've not had any more
stability issues than with any other previous upgrade to OS X. Indeed
much less in the way of any real problems here.

My only gripe is the mods they did to the Energy Saving preferences, and
losing the presets in the battery menu item. It was quite handy to have
a 'switch nothing off' setting for the times I do a battery refresh (my
MacBook is left connected up most of the time).

Apart from that, only one or two broken third party things, but nothing
that was irreplacable (I did have a panic when CocoaBooklet stopped
working, but CreateBooklet works just as well).

 

Very pleased. The only reason I haven't upgraded both
machines is the lack of a driver for my scanner. But on
the machine I've upgraded, I'm very pleased. It's
faster, the small tweaks to the UI are, IMO, nice
improvements, and the upgraded Preview makes a big difference.
(The new gamma setting is nice, but that's easy enough
to change on Leopard, too)

 

I agree with you.

Also, my Magic Mouse is even better with it too! No lag and speed is
just not an issue.

 

You like the way they changed the Dock's stack appearance ?

 

I hate the fan and grid layouts - and I hated them in
Leopard, too. I use List view and - yes - think they've
been improved in SL. And they are *much* faster to display
and navigate then they were before.

 

[commenting on Snow Leopard]

I'm one who likes the grid view with large icons. As for the dock itself, I
use an applet, Docker, which allows me to change the appearance of the dock
so that it is like the list view, albeit in a straight line of icons along
the lower edge of the screen.

 

I have SL on 2 Intel Macs, and Leopard on my iMac G5. I prefer SL, but
don't have any problem using Leopard when I have to. the one problem I
see in SL has to do with the Novell Netware client from Prosoft
Engineering. Ever since I upgraded to SL, my aluminum iMac (mid 2007)
isnt' able to downlaod files from network drives, or open them in the
Finder. I can open these files in all programs I have tried, except, for
some reason, Preview, and I can then save them on my local drive. I can
also move files up to the network drives in the Finder, and copy files
either way using Terminal.app. Very strange...