Create Digital Music has been expanding the breakdown of the Snow Leopard compatibility grid here.

Here’s a few videos on the topic – they are of marginal interest to the music / Ableton world, but insightful to some.

And this one

People are crawling out of the rocks for this release.

Is it the low price tag?

Is it recession boredom?

Hard to say.

As I mentioned earlier, proceed slowly. Verify that your hardware and software is ready for the upgrade.  Twitter, Facebook, friends, sharpie on the men’s room wall is NOT a reliable source all the time.