About 20% of them are still using older models that aren’t powered by the Intel (INTC) processors Apple currently uses. If you’re happy with Leopard, there’s no reason to rush out and get Snow Leopard.įor some current Mac owners, Snow Leopard isn’t an option. But I don’t consider Snow Leopard a must-have upgrade for average consumers. Overall, I believe Snow Leopard will help keep the Mac an appealing choice for computer buyers, and I can recommend it to existing Mac owners seeking more speed and disk space, or wanting to more easily use Exchange. On my 2008-vintage MacBook Pro, I gained back a whopping 14 gigabytes.īut I also encountered a number of bugs and glitches, and a few incompatibilities, including a wildly wrong guess by Snow Leopard about which driver to use for an older, lightly used printer on one of my upgraded Macs. One delightful change: Snow Leopard takes up less than half the room on a hard disk that Leopard did, and Apple says the average user who upgrades will free up about 7 gigabytes of space. I found Snow Leopard easy to install, faster than Leopard, compatible with my most commonly used software and peripherals, and filled with a number of small, useful refinements and additions. I’ve been testing Snow Leopard on three Macs-an older desktop and a laptop of my own that I upgraded from Leopard, and a new MacBook Pro laptop Apple lent me for testing with Snow Leopard pre-installed. I’ll have a full review of it closer to its release. Windows 7 is also an iteration on its predecessor, rather than a revolutionary new product, though it has some nice tweaks and will be a more dramatic improvement due to Vista’s failings. And it’s $90 less than what Microsoft plans to charge upgraders for the main consumer version of its next version of Windows, called Windows 7, which is due out Oct. Snow Leopard is priced accordingly, at just $29 for people upgrading from Leopard. For many months, Apple (AAPL) has made it clear the new OS wouldn’t sport new eye-popping features, but would instead be focused on what it calls “refinements” and “fine-tuning.” Perhaps its biggest new feature is something only a minority of Mac owners will ever use: built-in compatibility with Microsoft’s Exchange corporate email, calendar and contacts service. The company, which often proclaims its new releases as revolutionary, has been very low key about Snow Leopard.
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