This morning I visited the Apple Store at the Eaton Centre and acquired a copy of Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6). Once I got home, I prepped my Macbook Pro for the installation. Just to be certain that all was well before doing the upgrade, I verified the integrity of my hard disk using the Disk Utility, repaired permissions, and then finally ran Disk Warrior to verify the directory structure of the OS itself. Since everything checked out fine, I proceeded with the installation.
As various parts of the system were being updated, my Macbook Pro restarted a couple of times. Also during this process several gigs of hard drive space were reclaimed as older PowerPC code was dumped from the system. Snow Leopard no longer supports the previous generation of processors, namely the ones based on the PowerPC architecture (such as G4 and G5). About an hour or so later, my computer restarted for the last time signifying that the installation had finished.
A moment later the grey screen appeared, followed by the grey Apple logo with the spinning wheel, then a blue screen, and finally my login screen. As soon as that screen appeared, I entered my password. Slowly my Desktop sprang to life. All the stuff which had populated my Desktop before the update eventually reappeared. As of this writing, it appears that the update was a success. Now to the task of what incompatibilities may lurk in this OS.
To find out what works and what doesn't in Snow Leopard, visit snowleopard.wikidot.com .
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