Upgrade to Snow Leopard from Leopard?

[billgers]

With all the talk about whether or not to upgrade to Lion, it got me thinking that perhaps I should at the very least upgrade to Snow Leopard. I am currently running 10.5.8 on a Mac Pro early 2008 dual quad 2.8hz.

Can anybody advise as to whether or not this is generally a good idea? Will I see benefits in speed and/or track count? Will it introduce weird Gremlins into my system? Right now I am running Kontakt, Play, Ethno, Machfive 2, Trillian, Alchemy (love it!) and other assorted plugs and libraries. Right now, I am having a major problem with the latest Play update and hanging notes in DP, but other than that I am stable. I also believe that the SL upgrade would require me to upgrade to Ethno 2.

Any other positives/negatives or other thoughts on the matter would be much appreciated.

-Bill

[kgdrum]

I think most users will agree that upgrading to SL 10.68 would be a good move.SL is an improved,slimmed down Leo.
Many people myself included are happily residing in SL10.68 without any need or desire to move to Lion.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

+1 on 10.6.8

[billgers]

Thanks for the quick responses. Can either of you confirm that I will have to upgrade to Ethno 2 if I go to SL? Also, were there any specific problems or spcecific benfits you found with the upgrade?

Any other user expriences would be much appreciated.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

I found it useful to upgrade my Adobe Suite and MS Office. They still work under SL with Office 2008 and CS 2 but crashing was getting old. Fortunately my wife is an educator and the Adobe stuff was reasonably priced. Office Home Edition is about $150 or less. I also moved from a G5 at the same time as moving to SL so speed and other stuff is obviously much faster on an 8-core.