I picked up Snow Leopard today at my local Apple store. It was fairly crowded, but then, it always is. Just installed in on a new hard drive in an external case a bit ago. The installation took roughly an hour, but another 30 minutes or so to import settings and files over from with the migration assistant. Finally finished everything, fired it up and… well, it’s pretty much exactly the same as Leopard. A couple small tweaks that I noticed, the best was the improvements in how stacks are handled in the dock. Currently though, I have more negative things to say about it then positive. Well, just two negative things really. One is Apple’s fault and the other isn’t.
First, Quicktime 10 looks awesome. I love the interface overhaul they gave it, which makes it such a shame that it’s a complete piece of crap. Installing Perian at least got back .avi and .flv support, but no support for my .mkv files (how am I supposed to watch my soft subbed anime?!) nor can it play back .wmv files, even after installed Flip4Mac. Thankfully this issue is a non issue since you can install Quicktime 7. Good problem solved. Bigger problem? Driver support. I can’t install the drivers for my 8 button mouse (damn you Logitech), which makes it just a 2 button wheeled mouse with a lot of pretty but utterly useless extra buttons.
Tomorrow I plan on installing Adobe Creative Suite 3… Hopefully I don’t run into any major problems. Photoshop is supposed to work, with a few minor problems, but no word on the rest of the suite. Photoshop is the only one I use regularly anyways, since Coda pimp smacked Dreamweaver and made it his bitch. Funny, I never new Coda was a male until just now. I’m also hopefully that the rest of my software and games installations go smoothly Anyways, for now I’ve gone back to my Leopard install. It’s stable with all of my software and I can use all of the buttons on my mouse.
Posted by tgfoo at 10:34 PM. Filed under: Reviews • Technology • Apple •