I recently upgraded my laptop to Snow Leopard and have, as of yet, not been wowed by it. Whilst in conversation with a friend I defended the OS and demanded that the latest release was not a Service Pack as he suggested and is an entirely new OS. I installed it and expected the world to tremble as I booted up, I wanted to see an instantly noticable improvement for the ‘average’ user such as myself.
No such luck
Since installing the update I have not noticed an increase in speed as was anticipated and to make things annoying I have had to completely reconfigure my local web server and find a new Subversion application to use. It took me about a week to recover fully from the upgrade. The laptop has been sadly crashing (albeit not catastrophically) once a month or so.
On the bright side though, and there is a really big bright side, my laptop now sports the latest version of the OS. OSX is still as pretty and user friendly as it ever was and, after a month or two of use, you really start to notice the differences and little tweaks that have been added. I had problems before the upgrade with deleting ‘locked’ (?) items from my trash (there was a keyboard shortcut I now know) but now there is a handy dialogue box that asks about it on emptying the can. There are a few other stylistic changes I notice although I am aware that the major change is the extension of integration of Cocoa which is nice (apparently).
