I've done three Snow Leopard installs now -- one in training, one on my production machine in the office and one on my MacBook. I love the way this beast installs. Most software installs just copy straight form the DVD to the target filesystem. SL does some nice stuff: it does the same source and target media / filesystem integrity checks (checksum on the install media and fsck on the traget filesystem) as 10.5 did, but instead of archiving the old OS then installing the old way, it creates a temporary partition on the target disk, copies the install packages there, removes completely the old system then replaces it with a new system.
This is a lot more reliable.
Not to mention that SL has a much smaller HDD footprint. Installing SL freed about 10 gigs of space on both HDDs I've installed it on.
Not to mention that I'm not getting a lot of calls about SL issues. Both Tiger and Leopard were big call drivers on release.
Only one glitch of consequence so far, and it is not Apple's fault. SL shipped with a metric buttload of print drivers for numerous popular printers. One large makes of printers, one whose name rhymes with "Pewlett-Hackard" apparently failed to deliver the drivers Apple was expecting
Saturday, August 29, 2009
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