I Haz Snow Leopard

Posted on 5th September 2009 by Gary

It was inevitable, but once I’d found out that a new version of the Cisco VPN client was available, the one thing that was stopping me from installing Snow Leopard, then a Snow Leopard upgrade was on the cards. So off to the Apple Store on Regent Street in London I went.

Once home, it was time to see what’s in the package, to which the answer was not a lot, as it was even more minimalistic that the Leopard box.


And then on through the best part of an hour’s worth of installation with a single reboot roughly half way through.

… and yes, I do have more disk space now that there’s no PowerPC support and so there’s no Universal binaries and yes, though it’s totally subjective it does feel a darn sight faster. Now to test Exchange 2007 support …

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One Response to I Haz Snow Leopard

  1. Shaun McDonald says:
    September 5, 2009 at 10:42 PM

    Actually there are still universal binaries in many cases. 64 bit and 32 bit Intel, rather than ppc and Intel (potentially 4 way 32/64/ppc/intel).