anyone with a mac upgrade to v10.6? I'm hesitant, I have parallels and that's incompatible and "may be removed during the upgrade."
http://www.macworld.com/article/142424/2009/08/snow_leopard_changes.html EDIT: P.S. My copy is in the mail and should arrive any day now.
I use my MBP for work in a production setting, so I'm not updating. I've got too much software that might have issues or will require upgrades which will cost me $$$$. Plus I'm terrified of what SL will do to Fusion... The only way I'm gonna install SL is if I do something like this: http://lifehacker.com/321913/build-a-hackintosh-mac-for-under-800 I'm really tempted!
Upgraded - love it I got the US$10 up-to-date upgrade disc, because my iMac is relatively new (24", 2.66Ghz, 4GB ram, 9400M). 10.5 was already quite zippy, but under 10.6, its even faster. Some things are noticeably quicker, like loading thousands of photos in iPhoto. Before, took about 45secs to do anything. Now, ready in about 20secs.. Shutdown is unbelievably quick. Before: took around 40secs. Now, 6secs. Blink of an eye. There's alot of flak against Quicktime X, but I personally love it. The trim feature is exactly like 3GS, but exporting the movie only allows iphone/appletv/imac resolutions in .m4v file format. But if you had Quicktime 7 Pro anyway beforehand, you can still select that app to export to AVI or MPEG instead. I also love zooming up the tiled files in Finder so that I can see the photos and videos instantly. Wish the PDF quick browsing extended to XLS and DOC files too, but maybe later.... Oh, and installation took me 30mins to upgrade from 10.5.8. The timer was precise. All in all, a great upgrade. For those who use the mac for business, I strongly suggest that you get a hard disk in a FW800 enclosure, and run Superduper to clone it. If anything goes wrong, you can instantly boot up from that external disk (Preferences > Startup Disk) and work from there until you can rectify the problem. I cloned my disk with FW400 enclosure. It works, but rather slowly. Enough for casual use, but I would imagine business users need all the speed they can get. Good luck and enjoy! EDIT: I also ran VMWare Fusion 2 to run WinXP pro, and so far its all working just fine.
Im using SL now. Not much to brag about except that everything runs much faster now. Its pretty hard to explain why its faster or the significance behind the speed boost because of all the technical details. If anyone is interested, Ars Technica has a 23 page review of SL lol
Thanks for the rundown, hkiphone. I will be one of those critical of the new Quicktime. It is currently one of my most used tools and I'm afraid it will get dumbed-down like iMovie was. Everything else sounds great, however. Glad to hear Fusion made a relatively smooth transition as well.
I can see where you're coming from. I always use Spotlight for running apps, so it didn't make much difference to me, as a I type "qui" and it's already found Quicktime X and Quicktime 7. Plus you could always plug them into the Dock for quick access too. But going forward, I hope that QT7's features will slowly be integrated into QTX. Oh, another thing I love about QTX is chapter access. If you have a movie encoded with chapters, then you can click a button and view the chapters visually like on a DVD player! Slick...
Put it this way, it's never a bad idea! If you do backup, the only thing you lose is time. If you don't backup, you lose everything, including your time and your sanity. I highly recommend SuperDuper to clone your internal hard disk. If there's any problems at all, you can boot from that and continue working/playing until you figure out what happened.
