Snow Leopard Unboxing

Just kidding, Murph doesn’t unbox.

But Snow Leopard did arrive today.  And while I was pleased last month that it seemed Apple was keeping to its word — it’s not about shiny new features —  I kind of wished there were a few more today.  That said, I admire the goal Apple set for itself here, and I hope Snow Leopard proves itself with increased stability and performance.

Here are a handful of observations:

• My in-place install took 40 minutes.
• I reclaimed 20GB of space.
• The text replacement feature doesn’t apply to Terminal.
• Screenshots are now named with a date-time stamp.
• The new Expose stuff is nice.  Hover the mouse over a window and tap the spacebar to zoom in.
• I’ve never really used Stacks, but I’ll give it another shot with Snow Leopard.

And that’s about as far as I got.

I had two issues with applications.  I’m a big fan of 1Password.  There’s a slightly unusual situation there. They have a beta that’s compatible with Snow Leopard, jumping the product to version 3. That product is still in beta but available now with reduced pricing.  Working fine for Murphy so far.  If you stick with version 2 you’ll need to run Safari in 32bit mode, which can be done by selecting Safari in Finder and bringing up its Get Info panel.

The other issue was with Airfoil.  Same thing:  I had to run Safari in 32bit mode to make it work with Snow Leopard.

That’s about all I’ve gotten to so far.