Snow Leopard still a mixed bag
I’ve been trying out Mac OS 10.6 a.k.a. Snow Leopard for a few weeks now. For the most part it looks and acts… just like Leopard! Still, I have run into the following annoyances:
- Doesn’t really want to do more than one thing if you only have 1 GB RAM, very noticeably worse than Tiger in this regard (never ran Leopard much on only 1 GB). I guess there are more
ints running in the OS & in basic apps than I would have thought, if it is the 64bitness to blame. - Doesn’t work with our older b/g Airport Extreme. Says it’s on the wireless network, but doesn’t configure TCP/IP settings — this is after much experimenting with various Airport settings. Search for ‘snow leopard wireless’ for a variety of related complaints.
- Doesn’t work with the Citrix XenApp web plugin. To be fair, this seems to be due to Citrix expecting Java 1.5 to be installed, which is kind of lame. Workarounds are reported on the internets, but then you’re managing your own Java installation, which seems to be one of the most vulnerability-plagued pieces of OS X.
My conclusion, as of 10.6.2: no reason to upgrade from Leopard, unless you’ve bought brand-new hardware that requires SL.