Snow Leopard, we like it

A few weeks ago we wrote a blog post about the new Apple operating system Snow Leopard’s pending release. We could not wait to get our grubby mitts on the new operating system.

Several of us in the office have been using snow leopard for nearly a month now, our thoughts so far is that it is very good operating system. Ok … its not massively different from the previous version, leopard. However there are many behind the scenes tweaks which make is much more streamline and feel a lot smoother to use. Going back to leopard now, the previous instalment feels very clunky to use.

Once of the biggest improvements we have noticed is the speed. The amount of time which the operating system takes to shut down at the end of the day is staggering. When you have a load demanding programs running such as photoshop and dreamweaver etc .. the operating system still shuts down remarkably quickly.

However there are some minor niggles which caused us a few problems. Firstly, one of our wireless printers in the office will not work with snow leopard, mainly due to lexmark not pulling the finger out and developing any drivers for it in time. However the WI-FI drivers for lexmark printers i expect should be released shortly. Also on our systems we all use Adobe CS3, this became very slow and clunky under snow leopard, se we were forced to upgrade.

Going forward, these bugs should be sorted out … lets se how it compares to windows 7. If Microsoft keep up to their normal tricks, OSX should be far superior.

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