TheMacintosh1

Feeling that Youtube was over saturated with Snow Leopard videos and thoughts, I thought Tumblr would be the perfect location for my thoughts. I received a copy of Snow Leopard Monday as a gift from my brother, and promptly placed the disc into my late 2008 MacBook Pro. Followed the routine steps, and left the machine for a snack. But I returned, with a completely gray screen, without a single trace of a cat or be specific a snow cat. I restarted the computer, and it booted back to Leopard.

Confused, I removed the disc from my computer, and reinserted it. Followed the same steps, and Snow Leopard began installing without a hitch. At the end, I saved 20gb from my hard drive! I was impressed by the gain of space.

But I’ve had a few minor issues when using SL. First off, Safari seems slower and in the first five minutes using it to check Twitter, it crashed. Not trying to be nick picky, but its not impressive when you install a new OS, and in the first few minutes things already start to crash.Logitech Control is famously known for not updating the control center for their mice and keyboards, so I am stuck with non customized MX Revolution. Being someone highly reliant on those buttons, I setup hot corners to facilitate until they update the software.

But overall, I’m satisfied. Snow Leopard doesn’t have the same wow that Leopard had. But it wasn’t advertised to be. I’m loving the small tweaks Apple placed in the OS, especially in expose, and I’m glad to receive 20gb in additional hard drive space. I’m not complaining about the minor issues, because with very new OS release there is always incompatibility. I’m looking forward when Apple update Snow Leopard so it can even faster and impress me more.