I received Snow Leopard yesterday. We currently have 5 Macs. I have a Mac Pro and a MacBook Pro (15″). Each of the boys have an iMac. And lastly, I have a MacMini connected to our Home Theater setup where we can replay movies that are on a very large Drobo with 4 drives that are 1 1/2 Terabyte drives which gives about 4 1/2 terabytes for actual storage due to redundancy.
I quickly updated 4 of the Macs (the MacMini isn’t done yet – hopefully today). Setup went great and I had no issues with any of the setups. I guess I don’t have any software that doesn’t run under the new 64-bit architecture that is Snow Leopard.
It’s not a high impact update though. My systems all seem pretty fast to me so I’m not sure I’m observing a “snappiness” increase that has been bandied about on many blogs. I’ve noticed some of the UI changes including stacks and the darker overlays. They are nice. I am looking forward to playing with the updated spaces and expose. Those seem like smart changes.
I haven’t yet touched Quicktime though this afternoon when I practice my Guitar, I should use it then.
On my kids systems, I am putting Bootcamp partitions for Windows. They use their Mac’s using OS X for web browsing and homework but they still like to play the occasional PC game and so need Windows to do it. I’ve got Xander’s system working and need to spend some time on Mitchell’s after I do my morning workout. Of course, this opens the door for all those PC games they haven’t been able to use for a while which means “Dad, can you install…” over and over again.
I did go through and explore using system profiler to see what runs 32-bit versus 64-bit in the app space. I also verified that the reports are true that it’s running a 32-bit kernel. At this point, since I use VMWare’s Fusion, I will be glad to wait a bit till VMWare updates their kernel extensions to 64-bit before trying to run a 64-bit kernel. I hope the wait isn’t too long.
Overall, it’s a good update and worth the $49 for the family pack (which as you can see, I use all 5 installs).