Simply the best OS for your Mac (Apple Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 Upgrade)

Member Name: davomrmac

Product:	Apple Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 Upgrade
Date:	12/10/09 (20 review reads)
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Advantages: Takes up less disk space, faster

Disadvantages: Some software will require updating

When Apple announced Snow Leopard, most users would not have stood up and shouted "This is a MUST BUY product!" There were not that many new features, instead Apple were just touting an optimised operating system. It would install faster, take up less space, work more efficiently etc etc.

Well, this is so true and it is what really makes sense. Just to touch on previous years of both Mac OS and Microsoft Windows. The two companies always seemed to be trying to out-do each other. Stuffing in as many new features and special effects to their software as they could. Apple managed to do this with the previous version Leopard (10.5.x) elegantly, with it becoming a very stable and feature rich system. Whereas Microsoft seemed to make Vista a bloated piece of software, that did not get a lot of good press.

Apple's stance with Snow Leopard is like a breath of fresh air. The system for me installed smoothly. It got me back over 8GB of hard disk space. It starts up nice and fast and seems to be very stable.

A few bad points... some of my software did not work as expected. My Safari browser no longer worked well with Google Gears, which I use to upload videos to YouTube. My Xerox 6130 laser printer also stopped working, so I had to fiddle with drivers to switch back to a generic one to get a printout.

Other than that, everything is uber fast and stable. There were some nice changes to the OS too. Stacks (which you use for quick access to certain areas of your files) is now refined. You can now navigate through folders with Stacks. The Finder is nicer, you can zoom up big versions of icons that represent your files. If the file happens to be a video file, you can play it back in the icon, without even opening it, how cool is that! There is also a new version of Quicktime (called Quicktime X) for playing back your video files. No major changes, it just looks sleeker. I also now like the way that when you minimise a window, it disappears behind the associated application icon in your dock. All small changes, but very welcome.

Now onto the price. Apple could have charged £80-£100 for this. Instead you can upgrade for just £25. Well done Apple, sensible pricing will make this a no brainer for many.

Summary: Sensible pricing will make this a no brainer for many

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