Penguin Follower's Journal: Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard

Wow... honestly I can't believe the speed boost in everyday things that Snow Leopard gave to my 2.5 yr old Mac Pro today. Seriously, it feels like a new machine again. I bought the upgrade only because it was so cheap pre-ordering it for $29... I really wasn't expecting much of a difference. All of the re-written apps leap on screen the moment I've clicked on the dock I swear. Of course, they did not re-write iTunes, so it's still slow to load up (ok slow for this machine... not really that slow in the world of computers ;)

Also, Grand Central Station really does work! :) I've got a ton of apps running right now and previously when I would do this just to see how the machine would take it, it would only stress one or two cores (of 4 total) unless I fired up Carrara 3D. Now, when just massively multitasking I can actually see all 4 cores doing something instead of just one or two cores getting spiked for a bit. Nice :) The system is just nicely responsive no matter what.

All of this is purely subjective of course - no hard benchmarks for you here. All I can say is I've already got my $29 worth. ;) So far I haven't run into any show stoppers (like I did with Leopard at first). But, I have only been using it for about 8 hours so far.