Today marked the launch of Snow Leopard, which Apple has Dubbed "The world's most advanced operating system. Finely tuned." I became "that guy". I was not only waiting for Snow Leopard this morning, I was the first one to the store. Was it worth it? Well, early on I'll say yes.
The install was quick (for an operating system) and painless. The installer estimated 45 minutes, and from the time I hit install to the time I was back to the desktop for the first time it took just over 40 minutes. Before installing, Leopard was reporting 34.23 GB of available HDD space. After installing Snow Leopard is reporting 46.73 GB available. It's never a bad thing to regain 12 and a half gigs of space (Okay, it's bad if you accidentally delete a video file that you need to give to a customer or your picture folder and you haven't backed up your files, but then, shame on you). As for performance, I've seen a dramatic change in the time it takes to boot my system (from a over a minute down to 45 seconds), better load times for my applications (Aperture loaded after only once 3 bounces in the dock, Final Cut opens in what appears to be about half the time), finder seems to get my results just a hair faster. Overall, I can say that I notice the difference in day to day work.
There's not a lot in the way of user interface changes and major new features, but what changes there are are more then welcome. I'll get into those (and their usefulness) when I've got a couple more days to play around with them.
So, day one, is it worth the $29.00 point of entry? By all means, yes. Would I have picked it up day one if it were $129? Again, give me a few days and I'll make the verdict.
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