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The installation is very simple and fast. Strangely there is no DRM protection which surprised me. Even with this update my Mac is slower than my Windows 7 PC. The performance boot is noticeable but unfortunately none of the third party applications are using this speed boost and they continue to be slow. It is sharing the load between the CPU and GPU which is welcome change as now GPU would not be sitting idle doing nothing. The 64-Bit architecture is now supported throughout the operating system. The performance improvement is most impressive, everything works really fast.
Pros: speed, 64 bit architecture, use of GPU in an optimum way
Cons: not as fast as Windows 7, application don’t use the speed improvements, not a major improvement.
This update was not necessary; most of the changes are under the hood. Some of the changes that are noticeable are to Time Machine, Boot Camp, Quick Look etc. Yes there is speed improvement but only some of the default applications use that increase in speed at this time, none of the third party apps are taking advantage of it. The addition of Microsoft Exchange Support is very welcome. quicktime is still slow so it would be better if you would install the third party video application VLC media player which will play any video you will throw at it.
Pros: speed improvement is good. distributed use of GPU and CPU, low price
Cons: no major improvement, uses a lot of RAM, no support of CS3
The reason behind this quick update is to make it better than Windows 7 and add features that Windows 7 has, like the ability to share the load between CPU and GPU. With this update the whole operating system relies on 64 bit architecture. Because of speed improvements previewing large pictures is faster, time machine takes vey less time to backup, boot time and shut down times are faster, file compression also seems to have gotten faster. Finally after all this time date has been added to the desktop. There are some minor improvements in the stacks.
Pros: faster, quicker backups, improvement in stacks
Cons: even 2GB RAM is not enough, chances of backup corrupting, third party applications don’t utilize the speed improvement