5:26 PM - First thoughts on Mac OS 10.6
I got my copy of Snow Leopard today and promptly installed it. The upgrade process was smooth. I recovered about 17GB of free space between the improvements in snow leopard and it's ability to find a "dead" mobile me idisk. Actually strike that. I just remember that OS X now uses a different meaning for GB for disks now. (base 10 instead of base 2).
Some things do seem quicker, but I'm not fond of the gamma change. It's dark and dreary like windows now. The new highlight feature when right clicking on a dock item is very annoying and reminds me of vista. I suspect they were trying to emphasize the dock items, but it's overkill. I keep thinking why did the screen go dark, especially with the black menu now.
Mail.app did a quick upgrade on my mail. Considering the amount I have, it was painless.
Keychain detected an old version from long ago. I just had to enter an old password; good thing I could remember it.
I've seen some quirks with my IRC client. The popup windows to tell me about the connection to the server won't go away. I have to manually click each one. In 10.5, i could just bring the app into the forground to get rid of them.