My First Thoughts on Mac OS X Snow Leopard

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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