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Upgrading to Snow Leopard

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The UPS truck pulled up yesterday and delivered my family upgrade pack to Snow Leopard . Though I'm a software developer I really stick to the web side of things and have not participated in any of the developer versions of Snow Leopard. As a result, I've only done modest reading on it and I am approaching this upgrade as many consumers would. Rather than jump in with both feet, I decided to upgrade my MacBook Pro first, holding off on my primary machine (a Mac Pro) until I had seen which applications are compatible. Application compatibility? Doesn't everything work? Well, no. Most general purpose applications run fine - the majority for me did in fact. It's those little extensions that I've become hopelessly addicted to that can cause a problem. My biggest concern with Snow Leopard was whether or not I would have to change the way I work if one of my applications suddenly stopped working. Since Apple released Snow Leopard ahead of schedule it apparently caught a n