Last year when I purchased my MacBook Pro, it was about three weeks before Snow Leopard was to come out. Essentially the upgrade DVD was free and has been sitting on my desk for the better part of the year.
So I finally bit the bullet and upgraded. A few things of note:
- The upgrade took quite some time. It was in excess of an hour, and I noticed it stalled from time to time. I whipped out the log file and realised that it was repairing the disk quite a bit. Had I not noticed this, I would have assumed something had gone wrong and rebooted the computer. Command+L gives you the log.
- iTunes got a library update (it takes quite some time).
- Evernote got a database upgrade.
- My git went missing, so I had to reinstall it. Bazaar was however still gainfully installed.
- MenuMeters disappeared. I had to get a more modern version online to ensure it continued working.
- There was a huge combo update waiting for me, to take me from OS X 10.6 to 10.6.4. It nearly weighed in at a gigabyte.
- Mail, which has been handling my mail since I ditched Thunderbird, went through a rather lengthy database upgrade. While it upgraded, I could not use mail. This process was about one hour long as well, which I felt took too long.
After over two hours, all I can say is my laptop is a lot snappier than it was before. Everything works as expected. I guess its time to start rolling it out on the iMac, and probably clean installing the MacBook Air for travel use.
Update: 16-09-2010 – Needed to reinstall Quicksilver, to B58, since the older release seemed buggy.