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Topic: Snow Leopard - Your impressions and how much space did you recover?

43 replies / Originally posted by dave / Latest reply from ryan / Topic is closed

By dave

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Snow Leopard just arrived this afternoon! I installed it on my 15-inch MBP unibody (preferring the upgrade path over a clean install) and it took about 55 minutes. Just booted it up for the first time and immediately checked free disk space.

Before install: 118GB free
After install: 138GB free

20GB free! That's awesome!

How much space did you save and what are your impressions?

Posted 5 months ago

By jimfarley

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After the GiB/GB conversion, I got back roughly 13GiB. I like all the little improvements, very welcome all around. Very few incompatible apps so far (Glims plugin for Safari and a network monitor app). The Cisco VPN support is great - one less mediocre app (the Cisco client) on my machine. Sadly, I can't comment on the Exchange support since our IT team hasn't upgraded from Exchange 2003 yet. The ability to jettison Entourage would have been worth the Snow Leopard upgrade price alone.

Posted 5 months ago

By MAYxDAY

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I don't think that the speed improvements are extremely noticeable but I recovered about 10GB on a 2.4GHz iMac.

Posted 5 months ago

By dbag65

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Early 08 MBP 2.4Ghz

I noted all info on my drive before I installed. This OS counts a MB as 1000 bytes, not the old standard 1024. That math change is why your drive gets "magically" bigger too. If you've ever wondered why no drive you've ever owned showed up at it's stated size, that 1024 bytes= 1 Mb is the answer.

Pre 10.6 my "200GB" drive showed:
Capacity: 185.99 GB
Available: 123.92 GB
Used: 62.07 GB

Now its:
Capacity: 199.71 GB
Available: 141 GB
Used 58.89

No the drive did not get bigger, it's just calculated differently.
Subtracting the original available from the current I get 17.08 GB. That's gotta be the math most of y'all are using. We're not gaining that much real space.
If I try to do the math and convert the old number to the new system my head will explode because I'm a mathematical idiot.

We're actually getting back 4-6 GB

The painless install took about an hour and Time Machine ran a just over 8 GB backup right afterward.

Posted 5 months ago

By ryan

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Posted 4 months ago

By beau

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I have a 15 inch non-unibody MacBook Pro (2.16 gHz Core 2 Duo). Installed today. Bought a copy of Snow Leopard easily at the Chestnut St. Apple Store in San Francisco. No lines, plenty of copies.

Didn't keep track of hard drive space, mostly because my media is held on an external drive so I'm not aching for space on my laptop.

Install took 53 minutes, initial estimate was one hour through default install option.

First Time Machine backup was 8.3 GB.

No incompatibilities thus far, though I am noticing that my MacBook Pro runs much hotter than usual.

Posted 5 months ago

By vagvoba

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I have a 3 years old MacBook. The installation took about an hour and it recovered 8GB disk space. The only issue so far: Adblock disappeared from Safari. :-)

Posted 5 months ago

By cgraham

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loving it so far on my 2007 15" Macbook Pro. freed up just under 15GB. it broke my iStat menu meters though. :(

Posted 5 months ago

By pilsner

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I gained about 7GiB back on my 2008 MBP. I was using iStat pro to compare because it uses 1024MiB for Gigabyte in both OSs. If you used Finder then in Leopard it used 1024MiB but in Snow Leopard it uses 1000MB, and they both show up as "GB." So it'll seem like you got more than you really did. See this blog: http://www.thestandard.com/news/2009/08/27/snow-leopards
-new-math

Posted 5 months ago

By Levithelion

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im not sure, my hard drive crashed during the install... my 24" iMac is sad, but my unibody MacBook got about 7GB back

Posted 5 months ago

By arazoza

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2008 15" MBP Multi-Touch...I gained 17 GB back after the install. SL is running ok but I had some crashes earlier when I tried to open Keynote '09.

Posted 5 months ago

By UncleMuscles

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8GB here. I was quite pleased.

Posted 5 months ago

By robster1225

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Didn't think it was possible but I gained 15GB on a 15" MBP Unibody.

Posted 5 months ago

By dssstrkl

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Original 15" Macbook Pro. I saved about 7 GB (went from 73GB free to 80.2 on a 320 GB drive, old scale). What's really cool is how snow leopard uses the "correct" drive size (1000^3 instead of 1024^3), so Finder reports my drive as 319.73GB with 86.15GB free, but Path Finder (third party Finder replacement http://www.cocoatech.com/ ) is still using the old system and reports a 217.5GB drive with 80.2 GB free.

All in all, very nice.

Posted 5 months ago

By illu

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Got 13 GB back on my unibody MacBook.

Posted 5 months ago

By alikhan

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I regained 35gb on my first gen MacBook pro. No joke. Installing on my iMac now.

Posted 5 months ago

By joshuajudd

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My 1st generation Macbook Air recovered 12 GB. Very pleased!

Posted 5 months ago

By cpdtrigger

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I got 12.5 GB back by installing SL. Very pleased.

Posted 5 months ago

By georgemag

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I now have 181 GB out of 250 Gb, I saved 20 GB worth of Hard Drive Space.

Impressive, very impressive, that's worth $29 to me.

Posted 5 months ago

By beau

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It's little more finicky with wifi connections than Leopard.

Posted 5 months ago

By cneugebauer

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I did the stupid pre-order through Amazon and won't receive it till Sept 2nd says the tracking delivery. Who delivers on Sunday? Really?

Posted 5 months ago

By Zeltek

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I'm not sure what you were referring to, but just as a quick reminder, Sept 2nd is in fact a Wednesday.

Posted 5 months ago

By anzollo

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I recovered 8gb, I notice a much snappier feel to the OS

Posted 5 months ago

By wiz

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Does Snow Leopard have any compatibility issues with the Verizon Wireless Manager software?

Posted 5 months ago

By VinnyT

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The safari browser is faster.

Posted 5 months ago

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