How much space did you save?  I got 17 GB back!

For some reason, I went from 107.44 GB of free space to 124.55 GB of free space on my iMac after installation - a savings of a bit over 17 GB! Nice! It seems that Apple has over-delivered on their promise of 6 GB or I had a bunch of baggage that needed to go and the install did it!
All is well on my install. Things seem snappy but that may just be because the cobwebs have been blown out.

I gained about 8GB upgrading to SL. The installation was seamless, kudos to Apple. Install time was about 65 minutes, but my disk drive is only 5400rpm. The install still took less time than the upgrade from Tiger to Leopard last fall. I chose the upgrade install, not a full install from scratch.
My biggest concern was running Cubase Studio 5, but it seems to work fine. Loaded a few projects and ran them with success. Last fall going from Tiger to Leopard was a pain re: Cubase 4 LE, b/c of the licensing. Now using the dongle, no license issue.
I wasn't going to jump on the Snow Leopard bandwagon this soon, but couldn't resist! My little MacBook appreciated the move from Tiger to Leopard, and ran much snappier. In the short time I've had with SL it seems to have improved even more.
Good luck!

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