Snow Leopard

Well, it's here and I've installed it a couple of times now. I pre-ordered it for work and also got a family pack for home. I am pretty trusting of Apple's OS releases, but not enough to just dump it on my production machines. At work, I installed it on a Mac Mini that I use for testing. This currently had 10.5.8 on it, but is a plain vanilla Mac with no third party apps of any kind of special utilities. It went in very easily and took about 45 minutes to install. I've done some minor testing with it and have seen several of the new functions working and have not had any problems.

Then I installed it on an iMac at home. This particular iMac is used for work as a support machine and has several other applications on it, but isn't so important that I couldn't afford to wipe it and start over if I had to. Install time was about the same. When it was done, it came up and ran just fine. It did prompt me to choose some kind of system file, which I canceled out of since I did not know what it was. I did a check on the Apple user forums and it seems like it has to do with a printer driver. I have a couple of printers set up on the Mac, but because right now it's on a different network segment without any printers, I am wondering if that had something to do with it. I have rebooted the iMac and the message did not come up again. And speaking of rebooting, it seems that Apple is true to its word that shutdown and boot up are faster than before.

I have tried a couple of applications and the only thing that hasn't worked right out of the box is my Microsoft Remote Desktop program. It did kick an error. A quick trip to the Mactopia web site and a download of the latest version seems to have fixed that issue. VPN also seems to work OK as does my wireless connection to my Airport.

I run Back To My Mac and was able to see and do a screen share to my other iMac without issue. One thing that I do notice though is when I see my other iMac in Finder I have the Share Screen button, but not the button to connect at a file sharing level. I found that stopping and starting BTMM on the Snow Leopard iMac fixed that problem.