Snow Leopard performance slow...

To all who've replied, thanks for adding your input. For those that have asked questions or want to know how I'm fairing on Day 3, here goes:

- Slowness has improved. A few reboots here and there seems to help a lot.
- The first few uses of an app, or an app's features, will be slow but subsequent uses are faster. One user mentioned a drag-and-drop to trash can. The first time for me the same thing happened but now it's faster and working like it was before.
- Expose is also working normally though I'm undecided on the new layout. SL thinks it knows what you're using more or less of and makes the corresponding pictures of the apps respectively small or large. They're also no longer proportional to their actual size, which is a problem for me. I tend to make my less important windows smaller (like Adium, iTunes, Citrix list of apps) and my more important windows larger (Excel, Word, Entourage, Firefox, etc).

Problems still...
- MobileMe seems to run forever. Nearly everytime I look at the sync icon, it's spinning. It eats up CPU (and battery). I've un-checked Entourage calendar from the sync because that seemed to be messed up, and I noticed a missing card in address book.
--> On a side note, keeping all my lists in sync has become a nightmare so if anyone has any pointers on a good resource who I can call on to get it all set up right (Entourage, MobileMe, iPhone, Google Apps), that'd help a lot.

Otherwise, all has been running fine. I can't say (yet) that anything is running faster than before, but at least it isn't as slow as before.

Thanks again to all for adding your input. Keep it up!

- Jason

I tried that as well as reducing the number of items that MobileMe must sync. No luck! I also noticed my calendars are way out of sync as well. New appointments missing in Entourage, and old appoints now appearing on iPhone. I have discontinued syncing Entourage, but this still means iPhone, iCal, and Google app's Calendar is still trying to sync.

I'm completely baffled at how to fix Mobile Me anymore. I rarely get the results I want; it's just too unreliable with any more than one or two lists syncing.

In regard to the MobileMe slowness...

Some users on this thread have suggested doing a "Repair File Permissions" as well as a log out and log back in to the MobileMe account. +It worked for me!+ Here's exactly what I did:

1) Quit all applications (do the right-click on the icon in dock and choose quit). Yes, every last one of them. Only Finder, Activity Monitor, System Preferences, and Disk Utility were running.
2) Stop or Cancel any existing sync that may be in progress.
3) Log out of Mobile Me in System Preferences.
4) In Disk Utility, click Repair File Permissions. (It only took about half as long as it thought it would take.)
5) System->Restart. I quit any auto-launch apps, like Ding! for Southwest.
6) For good measure, I ran Repair Disk Permissions one more time (same results).
7) Logged back in to Mobile Me via System Preferences. It gave me a warning about not using the same name in two different computers, you can bypass/override this warning.
8) You'll be asked if you want to replace in either direction, or merge. I just chose merge and I can clean up the mess later.
9) Sync begins, and it will take a while. But, it does complete and I had only one conflict (a recurring appointment on my calendar from last year).

Sync now runs in a snap like usual and no problems. I'm sure there will be some cleanup but at least it's working again!

As for the opinions on Snow Leopard, I'll remind everyone that this experience, while somewhat annoying, is leagues better than doing a Windows upgrade (some of you remember those days). Did you know that some Windows upgrades require completely new installs? That means you can't upgrade over the existing; you have to literally wipe the drive and start over. How much would that suck!?

Not that I want to bash on Microsoft, just trying to help everyone gain some perspective on how much more of a hassle it could be.