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Did you get Snow Leopard?

Snow Leopard is out. Did you get it? I'm reading a lot of reviews and listening to some podcasts about the "new" OS and what I'm hearing isn't making me want to run out and get it. Here are three questions I have:

Is it worth $29?
Is it worth the time and hassel associated with installing a new OS (I like to do a fresh install instead of an "update")?
What fearture(s) sealed the deal for you?
If you had to do it over again, you would have...?

Tags: apple, computer, leopard, operating, snow, system

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Mel Sanders Permalink Reply by Mel Sanders on September 2, 2009 at 5:15pm
from my friends who have, it streamlines your mac's functions and could save up to ten gigs of space.
however, it looks like it's an Intel only upgrade - not for PowerBooks -

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Duke Brown Permalink Reply by Duke Brown on September 13, 2009 at 4:10pm
It is an easy and cheap up grade for apple with intel. Costs a little more for older versions. If you have intel based mac it doesn't take long at all. again with intel there isn't a need for a fresh install in fact they recommend not to, not sure why. Yes obviously I have installed snow leapard.

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Barney Wood Permalink Reply by Barney Wood on September 14, 2009 at 5:21am
BE CAREFUL! So far Snow Leopard is a good upgrade and definitely smooths and streamlines you Mac, but there are quite a few bugs in it. You might want to wait for the first Patch before you upgrade. I have had a lot of problems with it when using Final Cut Pro, Motion, a Telestream Product called "Episode" is useless right now and wont even open up. (The engineers are "working on the problem") Some software products that I use have separate Beta versions to use if you install Snow Leopard. Some of my iLife Products (like iDVD) are acting twitchy as well. For everyday computer user - you should be fine. For people who rely on their Macs for professional use like Video editing, graphic design, etc...just be aware that you'll encounter a few bugs. On another note, I bought a new MacPro 17 inch Laptop that came preinstalled with Snow Leopard and it works almost perfectly except for a couple things here and there. (iDVD doesn't work properly for example) I went to the Apple discussion forums and have seen all kinds of whacky things that are happening to people. So, just be careful when you upgrade! As I mentioned - you might want to wait until bugs get fixed until you upgrade. On the positive side - I definitely seem improvements in the performance of my Mac. Hope this helps!

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