Oh dear god, this review has lasted 6 days now and we are still going strong. This just indicates how excited we are about the new Mac OS X Snow Leopard. When we first started this review, we were sure that it will only take about two days to get it all on paper and published, but we were very wrong and if you have followed us since the beginning of the review you would probably have noticed that we haven’t mentioned a single negative word about Snow Leopard. This doesn’t mean that it’s absolutely perfect nor that we are very poor reviewers (well, it’s up to you to decide). Today, though, we will mention some negative things about the new Mac OS X Snow Leopard, so read on.

Boot Camp

Today I gave myself a difficult challenge which required a lot of patience. The challenge was to install Windows on my MacBook Pro and I started with a blunder and deleted my current Boot Camp disk instead of just reinstalling Windows on the Boot Camp partition. After I deleted the Boot Camp partition I couldn’t get access to partition the hard disk again so I had to erase my entire hard disk, reinstall Snow Leopard and restore from my Time Machine back up, before I could get access to partition my hard disk using the Boot Camp Assistant and after all, it succeeded. Then to the psychological hardest part: to install Windows, but it went surprisingly without any errors nor alerts, though it believed it to be was the first time I used the computer.

When Windows were finally installed correctly, it was ugly as… something, but it was because I hadn’t installed any drivers yet. I inserted my Snow Leopard install DVD and followed the instructions and 5 minutes later, Windows were ready to use with all drivers installed. For those who didn’t knew, Snow Leopard has new Boot Camp drivers and software so now you can access all your files on your Mac OS X partition without any third party applications. This is just a one-way access, because Apple doesn’t trust Microsoft’s security and fears that some files might get infected by viruses through Boot Camp. Sensible thought in my opinion . If you want to transfer a file from your Windows partition to your Mac OS X partition, all you have to do, is to open the drive called ‘Bootcamp’ and now you can look for the file you want to your Mac OS X partition.

Screensaver & incompatibility

That’s enough Windows for this review, let’s take a look at something less full of failures. Are you tired of looking at the same screen saver repeatedly? Apple came up with the solution in Snow Leopard because now you can active ‘screen saver shuffle’ which, by name, shuffles through your screen savers, just like you shuffle your songs in iTunes. If you are a user of iPhoto you also have the opportunity to use selected photos that you desire for your screen saver by flagging them now.

In the beginning I promised you some negative words, and I fulfilled my promise in the Boot Camp section by blaming Microsoft to produce silly software and operating systems. Unfortunately, I have to say something about Apple too, because not all applications are compatible with the new Mac OS X Snow Leopard. You’ve probably heard of the Adobe Creative Suite 3 (or earlier) is incompatible software to Mac OS X Snow Leopard. That’s not the only applications which might suffer from incompatibility with Snow Leopard. Apple has made a list of applications that are unsupported in Snow Leopard. Users of Snow Leopard have also been active and made a publicly editable list of applications that are compatible with Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

Now, we are really close to have covered all new features in Mac OS 10.6 and this review is near an end. You’ll probable notice that we still haven’t told anything about iChat, which of course also has been enhanced by the forces of Apple engineering. Due to some reasons, we will wait some time before we will write a review on this application. Until, come back now and then to read some more news and rumors while you’re eating your lunch, if your wife allows it. If not, buy her an iPhone or if you (or she) already has an iPhone, come back later today because we have a surprise for you. Enjoy your lunch.