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Just installed 3.1 and all is well, but I'm not sure if I like the new interface. version 2 is on Apple's official DOA list.

Sothink SWF Decompiler - had to re-register the product.

(I seriously recommend iWork instead of the core Office applications, and Address Book, iCal, iChat and Mail for your email and IM needs.)

I deplore the Entourage user database blob, so that and Messenger is untested. Microsoft Office 2004 - Excel, PowerPoint and Word.MenuMeters - 1.4b1 released 9/1 works again!.

MAMP - The MacCetera web development sandbox is running just fine!.

Little Snitch - 2.2b1 was released recently.

while "broken" in ways too numerous to mention, it isn't fully dead, yet I really wish that 10.6 would have finally put this bad dog down.

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Internet Explorer for Mac v5.2 - don't laugh.

iMovie HD - mentioned only because it's a legacy product.

Image2SWF - had to re-register the product.

HyperSpaces - 1.0b9 was released today.

CyberDuck - 3.3b1 was released yesterday.

Canon Poweshot G5 Camera and Lide100 Scanner support utilities - not extensively tested at this point, but they launched.

Adobe Web Design Suite CS4 - Acrobat, Bridge, Contribute, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash Pro, Illustrator, Photoshop, Soundbooth, etc.

AppleWorks 6.2.9 - extremely unsupported legacy for my very old legacy documents.

Age of Empires III - my current time sponge diversion.

1Password - 3.0 beta test available with free signup.

and my increasing list of things that work:

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Note that I did select Rosetta in the install options. stay tuned, as I will be keeping this up-to-date as third-party vendors catch up with Apple's surprise "early release" of 10.6. The following will be an updated list over the next several days.

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( time +0:42) - Upon login, the "Welcome to Mac OS X" video played, and my registration info was sent to the bean-counters in Cupertino. (If it does this for more than a half-hour or so, you can begin to panic though.) Let the spinner spin, and go get a cup of coffee to calm your nerves. As Douglas Adams wrote: DON'T PANIC! This is normal, and thinking that you Mac may be hung would be a serious mistake here.

Very important – The blue screen with the tine spinning gear may run for quite some time depending on your system.

The 12 minutes of spinning gear on blue was somewhat expected, as I have almost 300 GB of stuff on my boot drive - with some applications dating back to far earlier generations of cats including Cheetah and Jaguar.

( time +0:41) - After waiting a more than a few minutes for some "first time in a new room" stuff to happen, I beheld MY login screen sitting nicely on a newer Leopard-esque nebula background image. ( time +0:29) - My MacPro completed the install, and rebooted from my upgraded boot drive. ( time +0:10) - My MacPro rebooted from the DVD to perform the second phase of the install.

The 10.6 install process is truly elegant:ġ - Insert the DVD and run the installer from your running 10.5 system.ģ - Wait 10-15 minutes while the necessary components are copied to your boot drive.Ĥ - Restart from the DVD to finish the install, which runs faster because all the installs are happening from your faster hard disk.

Insert the DVD and launch the installer, which restarts your system from the DVD to run the installer.Ģ - Select the Install options and start the install.ģ - Wait for 20-30 minutes while the DVD is examined to ensure that everything could be read.Ĥ - Install all the goodies from the DVD.

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Here's how a Mac OS X install went prior to 10.6:.This is the first major change in OS installs, and verifying that the DVD is good and all the data is readable is absolutely free!

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(start time) - The pristine DVD with the snow-capped Leopard is in the top bay of my MacPro doing the first phase of the upgrade install - placing all the 10.6 install packages in an installer folder on my boot drive. ( time -0:25) - I'm back in my office, running a final clone of my Mac OS X 10.5.8 boot drive with the newest copy of SuperDuper (2.6), followed by a pre-install "backup now" to my TimeMachine drive. ( time -1:40) - Like a kid looking out the frosty window at the season's first snowfall dreaming of snow forts and snowmen and snowball fights, I looked in the window at my #2 Apple Store this morning (Bayshore, as Mayfair opens tomorrow following a remodel), where I bought my Family Pack of the newest cat from Cupertino. Well, today (August 28) winter struck everywhere as Apple released Max OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard. While Wisconsin does get honorable mention for notable winters, we usually don't have the bad rap that Minnesota, or Buffalo, New York do when it comes to unreasonable snowfall. Marc's Notes: Comments, Ramblings, Rants & Tips First Snow in August