For those interested in getting Snow Leopard for their Mac the one thing you need to do is check to ensure that your current batch of software works with it. If you don’t and your business relies upon this to keep making you money, you could be out more than the $29+ with any potential headaches that you might come across.
Apple has posted a list of software that is incompatible with Snow Leopard. Review it to make sure you’re trouble free.
It should take third party developers about 1-4 months to get things right for smaller developers, otherwise longer for bigger applications. If you’re not sure, check each vendors application web site to see if Snow Leopard ready.
Update 08/29/2009 9:49 PM MT: It seems that Snow Leopard is only allowing the 64-bit kernel (the brains of the Mac) to run in a 32-bit kernel because not all of the various drivers such as printers, scanner, etc are not currently written to take advantage of the new OS. You can go here to find out some more. You can also open up Terminal and cut and paste the below text into the open window after the “$” to see if your Mac’s firmware can handle it.
ioreg -l -p IODeviceTree | grep firmware-abi
It should look like this after you have typed it into Terminal:
kevin-culliss-macbook-pro:~ kevin$ ioreg -l -p IODeviceTree | grep firmware-abi
It should return this:
| | "firmware-abi" = <"EFI64">
kevin-culliss-macbook-pro:~ kevin$
We'll have to wait and see what happens as more people move this forward.
