I read all the articles that said I shouldn’t install Snow Leopard until I cleaned up my computer, but I couldn’t wait. I dug right in as soon as I got it. The install went really easy on both my iMac and my MacBook.
Here are the changes I noticed:
Hard drive free space -I didn’t take note on my Macbook, but on my iMac, I gained about 15 GB of space on my hard drive. That alone, made the upgrade worth it.
Speed – I noticed a difference in the speed of everything on my computer. My mail, calendar and address book opened faster. Firefox seems to be running faster.
Restart – Definitely faster
Finder – You can change the size of the icons in the finder and get a large preview of the document/picture without opening it up. This makes it a lot easier to find that one document or picture you are looking for. That is the control in the lower right hand corner (inside orange circle) that you slide to control the icon size.
This is the view of the finder in the pictures folder on the largest icon setting.
And this is the Documents folder on the largest icon setting. It will be much easier to find the pdf or Word documents I need now.
Dock – The orange arrow is pointing to the scroll bar that now appears when you open the Applications or Documents folder in the Dock. Now you don’t have to click on the Arrow that opens the Finder window to find the apps that start with a ‘Z’.
None of these changes are earth shattering, but they have made my life a tad easier and that is worth the $49 upgrade for both my Desktop and Laptop.
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great overview.. now if my tech guy would get on the ball…
One thing I noticed is that my hard drive capacity before hand read 465.24 GB and now it reads 499.76 after the install. Available changed from 246 GB to 264 GB.
You just made me jealous — I want a MAC but that will not be happening any time soon unless God drops one in my lap!
We got ours on Friday too. Waiting for hubby to update my computer!
WOW, that's a lot.
Get that tech guy to install it, Steph! Bust his butt!
So, did hubby install it yet?
Yep, got it done yesterday! I'm not noticing much difference. I hope he did it right. LOL!