So, Erwin posted his first impressions list, which reminded me that I’ve done one of my own from time to time, so here goes.
I didn’t do a regular upgrade, and even then I don’t really remember how long it took last time,1 so I have no idea if it installed any faster. DiskWarrior seemed to be getting lost scanning my hard drive, so I did the format, install, restore dance. The installer’s install/restore mode didn’t seem to be working either, did those two separately.2 My free-space story seems much like Erwin’s, with an additional uncertainty point thrown in for good measure — Migration Assistant copied over my old /Developer directory (with a new name), so I had two copies of the developer tools installed for a while.
All that being said, here are a few things that I’ve noticed:
Pros
- Mail seems a lot faster.
- All of my Dashboard widgets survived.
- Mercifully, iPhone developers no longer have to download the entire developer tools package every time they want a new iPhone OS SDK.3
Cons
- None of my Menu Extras survived.
- Imagine, for a moment, that you had put Script Editor in its own Library (Window Menu → Library) under Leopard or other cats prior. You might have thought that you would now have an AppleScript Editor reference in there. You’d have been wrong. Instead, you’d now have a grayed-out, iconless reference to Script Editor.
- My nearby PC is still just as confused when I use “`” inside the window switcher4 as it was before I upgraded my Mac to Snow Leopard.