Snow Leopard Notes & Cautions – Part1

My Apple Snow Leopard disk came Friday via Fedex, just as Apple promised.

Upon getting home I started the install process.  The quoted time for install was 45 mins, and that was pretty accurate.  I did an install over the top of my existing Leopard 10.5.8 installation on my Aluminum iMac 24 Dual 2.8Ghz with 4GB ram.  All-in-all the installation went 100% perfect.

Here are some observations so far:

• The default desktop background image of the auroa star field is more purple than Leopard’s
• Quicktime icon is new and cool
• Quicktime video playback is borderless
• Observed a bunch of 64-bit apps in Activity Monitor
• Expose has some improvements, click-hold an app icon in the Dock finds the open window
• iTunes appears unchanged

Application Compatibility Notes:

• VMware Fusion 2.0.5 works fine wih Windows 7 RC1
  
• Adobe Lightroom 2.4 works fine
• Photomatix Pro 3.1.3 works fine
• Handbrake 0.9.3 works fine
• Firefox 3.5.2 works fine
• Plants vs. Zombies game works fine
• Drobo Dashboard 1.5.1 with firware 1.3.4 works fine

In part Part 2 I will provide more in depth observations.