Lucid Nonsense


Snow Leopard

Saturday, 5 September 2009

Well, it’s been a week since Snow Leopard was released and so far things seem to be going quite smoothly. All the “major” apps, Quark, Creative Suite etc., all seem to work in their recent versions, and in fact the only app I’ve had refuse to work is the Vodafone software for my USB 3G modem. I would be surprised if Vodafone don’t get a fix out for that fairly quickly.

One of the big problems with Snow Leopard is in the fact that most of the neat changes are all under-the-hood, so it is still quite hard to come up with a list of things to show people how much better it is. Still, being able to say “faster, more responsive and less disk space used” is in reality probably all that is required to sell a £25 upgrade.

I’ll be updating our Snow Leopard Page shortly with details of some of the big changes in both the server and client versions of the new release, as well as what impact they’ll have in real usage scenarios and some of the new features that are available.

I am still really annoyed that ZFS was dropped though…


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