I Know I Said I Wasn't Going to Do It…

…but it was a slow day at work and I had a full backup from the night before, so I figured what the hell? I could always restore from the clone when I got home if it hosed everything.

And I know that every year I say I'm not going to upgrade and yet—without fail—after months of trash-talking the betas, I do it on the very first day the new OS is officially available.

Well, after using it for the past several hours and checking most everything out, I have to say I'm more than pleasantly surprised. I don't know how many overnighters the Mac team at Apple had to pull since I was cursing out even the most recent beta only a few days ago but it would appear that everything that I experienced as broken only last week is now fixed.

While most of what Apple did was behind the scenes, there are lot of subtle graphic improvements, tweaks that make doing things easier, and a general speed increase that is noticeable. I also appreciate that the ever-bloated iTunes has been split into three separate programs. My biggest worry in upgrading was that I'd lose all the carefully curated album art I'd assigned (an issue brought up in the forums in regards to the betas). Admittedly, it took a couple hours for it to repopulate, but all the custom artwork is present and accounted for. Another minor inconvenience was that initially the "Recently Added" group only showed albums I'd added within the past twenty four hours.* A full accounting of what's changed is beyond the scope of this blog, but there are several excellent reviews available online in case you're interested in knowing more. I had been preemptively warning friends not to upgrade, but I may have to reassess that in the coming days.

*Letting it sit overnight repopulated everything in the proper chronological order.