Are you sitting down, readers? The Macalope hopes so, because it's his uncomfortable duty to report that, according to PC World's Ian Paul, .

(Psst. Ian? )

Paul tries to make some hay with problems with Snow Leopard and the iPhone 3.1 update, but ungulates know hay, Ian, and the Macalope's here to tell you that ain't hay.

...for a release that was supposed to be largely about system improvements, Snow Leopard sure came loaded with .

The piece Paul links to is based on forum postings and quotes sources such as "Westhamunited" and (no, the Macalope is not making this up) "Rickmeister." The Macalope has , but it bears repeating: you can't tell by forum postings how good an operating system update is. The Macalope's inclined to go with (tip o' the antlers to ) when he says Apple could have done better, but overall the Snow Leopard update was pretty good.