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The Mac OS Snow Leopard will soon hit the store by tomorrow. Currently I still use Latest Leopard Mac OS so is there any benefit if I upgrade to Snow Leopard & is there any differences with it. I might get one soon if it is a great deal to me.

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Soon.....

for the price they will be selling the upgrade at, $29, yes!!

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Mark Osborne
My life through an iPhone

Its only 10 USD if you bought your mac after june 8th 2009. and yes i plan to upgrade in a week or too. I want to make sure there aren't any obvious serious bugs.

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Canon 40D + 70-200mm f/2.8L IS + 50mm f/1.8
Manfrotto 055CX3 + 496RC2
www.thomaslowe.com

Have just upgraded. Seems a little snappier but that's probably more to do with doing a clean install and having not much installed yet. I've not noticed any vast differences although I've got a bit of hard disk space back. Still, it's an upgrade and the reports show improved performance so who am I to argue. I guess I'll notice it over time.

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Nikon D700 | 20mm f2.8 | 28mm f2.8 | 50mm f1.8 | 70-300 f4-5.6 | SB800 | flickr | serial photography

I see no reason not to. I would normally wait for the initial bugs to show their faces and for an update or two to be released but nothing major seems to have been reported yet. I'm in no rush to ditch Leopard though so I'll just wait a month or maybe more.

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Graham
Flickr

I have seen a couple of reports saying the bundled Nikon apps e.g. Nikon Transfer may have some bugs that need ironing out.

Nikon tech support release
http://support.nikontech.com/app/answer ... a_id/16522

Have a look here for issues with other apps people are reporting
http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/

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Nikon D90
Nikkor AF-S DX; 18-105 f/3.5-5.6G VR, 55-300 f/4.5-5.6G VR, 35mm f/1.8G
Speedlight SB-700

http://keystrokesukimages.com

Yes, I plan to upgrade as soon as I can buy the family pack in my local store. They only have the single user version right now....

I've upgraded my two Macs and my wife's as well. The upgrade itself was straightforward, I double backed up my data then did a clean install on each of the computers. Once they were up I recovered the data and reinstalled just the apps we actually use. That in itself was a useful exercise.

So far the only issues I've had have been no support for our HP printer and the Logitech Control Centre, Xmarks and ZumoDrive not working. I worked round the Logitech problem, Xmarks was released today and I used some 3rd party drivers for the printer. That just leaves ZumoDrive missing.

I've booted my MacBook Pro using the 64-bit kernel but found the drivers for my Huawei 3G dongle don't work so I've been running with a 32-bit kernel.

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Nikon D80, Nikkor lenses: 35mm f1.8 G AF-S DX, 50mm f/1.8 AF D, 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G ED-IF AF-S DX, 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED AF-S VR, SB800 flash
My photos on SmugMug

I've crossed over... to 10.6 that is. so far so good. the installation went nicely. First impressions, Finder is much more responsive.

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Canon 40D + 70-200mm f/2.8L IS + 50mm f/1.8
Manfrotto 055CX3 + 496RC2
www.thomaslowe.com

Upgraded laptop and desktop so far. Not had a problem with anything yet.