Kicking the tires on Snow Leopard and doing some edit work too

Over the weekend I installed Mac OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard!) and crossed my fingers as I booted up Final Cut Pro for a number of quick edit tasks I had to complete. Install was lightning fast (relatively speaking to other OS updates) at under an hour and claimed an extra 10 gigs or so of hard drive space (though that might not be totally accurate) when all was said and done. This install was on my edit machine at home, the machine that is often the guinea pig for mad scientist-type software experimentation, so I chose to do the quickest and simplest upgrade option and not a “clean install” as I usually do when a new OS rolls around. In fact a clean install isn’t a simple option with Snow Leopard but apparently it can be done by rebooting and formatting your hard drive with Disk Utility and then installing. I’ll do that on the office machine at some point. But here’s the usual warning, do not upgrade to Snow Leopard if you are in the middle of a job or don’t have the time to devote to working out problems that can arise from such an update. And always make a bootable back-up before performing any upgrade.

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