The second time was the charm. The install made it all the way through. It took about 45 minutes in total.

Installing it onto a 40 GB partition, I was left with over 32 GB. That really isn't representative of the OS size because I had the installer migrate over stuff from my Leopard partition automatically. It was really cool. I had my user accounts, preferences, and even applications migrated over. It was really neat. I have never seen a Windows box do that for a side-by-side install. Apple really makes things easy.

I have to admit when Snow Leopard finally started I knew that the OS was different, but it really felt comfortably the same. My Dock was migrated over as well so that looked like exactly the same. Stacks looked different at first when it was loading my stack info into the cache. At first glance the completely re-written Finder didn't look different at all.

Apps fired lightening fast. For almost all I tried it was click-boom. Obviously part of that is a virgin OS, but still it was pretty neat. The big clunker was MS Word. It took 15 seconds or so to start to a blank page.

I duplicated my crashing bug pretty quickly. The slightly redesigned crash reporter already gave me a big pointer. The app is crashing in a dealloc call in the open source networking library I am using. Hopefully it should be an easy fix.

I am going to spend more time tomorrow going through the OS. I looking forward to digging deeper.