Mac OS X version 10.6.3 Snow Leopard (Mac computer with an Intel processor required)
Product Description Mac OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard, a simpler, more powerful, and more refined version of Mac OS X. It delivers a wide range of enhancements, next-generation technologies, out-of-the-box support for Microsoft Exchange Server, and new ac...
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Reviews around installation (4.55 of 5)
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Installation was seamless and Snow Leopard kicked in immediately.
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Subsequent installation of the updates has cured this problem so I would start by saying that you MUST update after you install... failure to do so is a system crash waiting to happen
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Installation failed 6 times without Snow Leopard stating a reason for it (I have a standard MBP 15", no exotic software or hardware)
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But anyone who wonders, it was a nice easy installation from Tiger
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Easy installation and upgrade to my 2006 MacBook which was using tiger.
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Reviews around product (4.30 of 5)
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Apple just keeps on improving an already great product.
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Snow Leopard is an excellent product but so was "normal" Leopard before.
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This product is probably fine if used as an upgrade from Leopard.
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MAC OS X was already a great product and Snow Leopard is a good update; especially since the upgrade process was a breeze!Don't expect anything
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It is inexcusable for Apple to release a product, an upgrade to a really good operating system, with as many bugs and glitches as Snow Leopard
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Reviews around install (4.30 of 5)
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I took it to the Apple store and they had to do a clean install
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Install was easy (note: I did not do a clean install but an upgrade
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I was almost going to do a clean install, but there was really no point.
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It is also the least expensive upgrade that I have ever installed.
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First the install was a little more difficult and harrowing that I'd like
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Reviews around gb (4.24 of 5)
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I just wanted to say that I have regained 15gb of hard drive space and my printer now works better than when it was connected to OS X 10.5
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and I had 19.6GB more hard drive space after the install.
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Original Numbers base 2: Capacity 257GB, Used 244GB, and Available 12GB.
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Is 4GB RAM not enough to open a menu in less than two seconds?10
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After instal converted to base 2: Capacity 257GB, Used 234GB, and Available 22GB.
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Reviews around feature (4.24 of 5)
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It adds some minor nice new features, but at the expense of many applications not working properly because those apps have not been updated, and many printers not working because drivers are not updated yet
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WideMail complements missing features in Mail application in many ways
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The speedup is barely noticeable and there are really no killer features to make this worthwhile
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Versions after Snow Leopard are missing very useful features
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I can't comment on any new features, but it works as it's supposed to.
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Reviews around os (3.99 of 5)
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While no OS is problem free, Snow Leopard is one of the better ones.
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I would recommend this OS system upgrade to all Mac enthusiasts!
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spent $25 on a new OS (much better than the $200+ for the new windows fail edition), freed 20+ gigs up on my notebook - well worth it.
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Mac OS X Snow Leopard offers a series of great refinements to an already great OS, that is Leopard
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Some people are plain stupid and review everything here but the OS itself
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Reviews around mac (3.98 of 5)
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I wanted to downgrade my mac, so i used it to erase my hard drive and install it
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I would recommend this Mac OS update to everyone who owns a Mac.
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the fastest and easiest Mac OS upgrade that I have ever experienced
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I hauled out the Leopard disks, exorcised the demon Snow Leopard, and did a clean reinstall of my favorite Mac OS
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Turned an already fast Mac Pro into a screaming fast one with Snow Leopard.
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Reviews around price (3.88 of 5)
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If the only issue was price I would say the upgrade was easily worth the
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I just want to tell you it is a excellent software with cheap price
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If you're willing to pay the cheap price and the slight hassle of doing a backup before upgrading, go for it
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so i bought this good price and worked perfectly on new hard
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You get a great deal of programming for a VERY good PRICE
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Reviews around system (3.80 of 5)
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It is inexcusable for Apple to release a product, an upgrade to a really good operating system, with as many bugs and glitches as Snow Leopard
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This is the cheapest operating system upgrade I ever got and the most stable too
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Vista was the worst operating system Microsoft ever developed, bloated, inefficient and insecure
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Mac OS X is the most powerful and easy operating system for me
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I've been using Macs for 20 years, and this is the worst system
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Reviews around snow leopard (3.71 of 5)
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Snow Leopard was fast: Fast to log on, fast to log off.
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I have found Snow Leopard to be a disappointment so far
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Snow Leopard was easy to install, and works well, overall
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Snow Leopard came from Amazon as promised, when promised
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Snow Leopard is disappointing on the outside, but juicy on the inside
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Reviews around thing (3.54 of 5)
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I can type my login until they work things out with Apple
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One of the great things about OS X is that you can clone a hard drive from one Mac to another completely different type of Mac -- in my case, from an 8-core Mac Pro tower
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freed up almost 20gb of space on my internal drive, externals load and eject with greater reliability, apps load faster, the one odd thing i've noticed is the trash takes a while to empty now, potentially connected to the new file system that freed up all that space
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It crashed the whole thing and corrupted the hard drive.
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It takes less time.(-)The most annoying thing is how they measure size
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Reviews around apple (3.51 of 5)
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Apple should make Snow Leopard backward compatible with the existing applications
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Why is Apple selling an operating system without a lot of new features?Apple's Leopard operating system already had a lot of features, and Apple decided to improve and speed up what they already have
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Well, apparently it is, or Apple makes it much harder than it is
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Hopefully Apple will correct this issue, as it should be intuitive and it is not
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I love Apples products but Snow Leopard is just a bad apple
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Reviews around stability issue (2.46 of 5)
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I'm noticing very disturbing, unpredictable stability issues with iTunes 9.0.1, CS3/4 and other apps
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I can't comment on any new features, but it works as it's supposed to.
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10.5.8 was still there and everything worked as if nothing had ever happened
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Even to this day as I encounter stability issues or random bugs in the newer OS's, I always say, "I miss Snow Leopard
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I bought this program from the apple store to install on my 20'' iMac, previously running os x 10.4, & after installing it and updating everything, it worked as if brand new
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Reviews around partition (2.33 of 5)
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I always recommending a complete Hard Drive and Partition
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I always recommending a complete Hard Drive and Partition
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I bought this program from the apple store to install on my 20'' iMac, previously running os x 10.4, & after installing it and updating everything, it worked as if brand new
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10.5.8 was still there and everything worked as if nothing had ever happened
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After a few hours of backing up the files I wanted to keep on an external drive and erasing the partitions, my MacBook was finally reborn
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Reviews around compatibility problem (2.28 of 5)
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I have a friend who is using snow leopard and is also having compatibility problems with her programs which worked fine with the older OS.
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10.5.8 was still there and everything worked as if nothing had ever happened
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As above, I would recommend waiting a week or two before installing it so that the 3rd party vendors have time to eliminate the compatibility problems.
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I bought this program from the apple store to install on my 20'' iMac, previously running os x 10.4, & after installing it and updating everything, it worked as if brand new
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I can't comment on any new features, but it works as it's supposed to.
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Reviews around anti virus (2.28 of 5)
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The only software that had a conflict was my Symantec Anti-virus 1.5.1 that had a lot of errors after the install, and that a Live Update did not fix.
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I can't comment on any new features, but it works as it's supposed to.
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Silicon Image eSATA drivers, SilverKeeper, SmartScroll, Sprint SmartView, SMS Mac, Sophos Anti-Virus, Split&Concat, Squeezecenter, Sticky Windows, TivoDesktop, Toontown Online, Vonage Companion, WD Anwhere Backup, WideMail, Winclone, WindowShadeX, X-Lite, Xmarks for Safari, Xsan, XScreenSaver, Zend Server, ZumoDrive
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That's what it's like running windows: criminal gangs that produce viruses and spyware are way ahead of the anti-virus people
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I bought this program from the apple store to install on my 20'' iMac, previously running os x 10.4, & after installing it and updating everything, it worked as if brand new
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Reviews around company (2.28 of 5)
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Hard drive companies have always defined a gigabyte as 1,000,000,000 bytes, but most operating systems have defined it as 1,073,741,824 bytes
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I can't comment on any new features, but it works as it's supposed to.
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I bought this program from the apple store to install on my 20'' iMac, previously running os x 10.4, & after installing it and updating everything, it worked as if brand new
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10.5.8 was still there and everything worked as if nothing had ever happened
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Snow Leopard (OS 10.6) is the definitive proof that any company could make mistakes, but only some are responsible to clean up messes
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Reviews around lot (2.05 of 5)
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It does definitely refine a lot of what came before, which is what Apple was working toward
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A lot of the improvements in Snow Leopard (the new developer APIs) won't provide much benefit now, but it'll really pay off in a few years with many-core hardware and rewritten software to take advantage of the APIs
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A google search shows that lots of other people are having this problem.
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There are also a lot of 'under the hood' improvements that take full advantage of 64 bit processing and others that make life easier for software developers.
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With that being said I expect that a lot of people will ultimately be disappointed with Snow Leopard simply because this is really not like any of the previous OSX upgrades
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Reviews around people (1.88 of 5)
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People feel safer with protection, and unlike Windows you don't have an annual fee from a 3rd party vendor
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I'm not one of those naive people who thought they were actually buying a real snow leopard.
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I might try a fresh install, still many people who just got Macs will just want to pop the disc in and go so
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Too many people having minor problems that get blown out of proportion
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People always get excited for OS upgrades and rightfully so given how much time we now spend in front of computers
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Reviews around compatibility issue (1.67 of 5)
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I thought I should do a little more research and check the latest compatibility issues.
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So far as I can tell I have had no compatibility issues.
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So far, I have not had any compatibility issues with the applications I use
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I bought this program from the apple store to install on my 20'' iMac, previously running os x 10.4, & after installing it and updating everything, it worked as if brand new
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There are many blogs with lists of compatibility issues to help you
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Reviews around disk (1.43 of 5)
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The tip: OS X loves -- nay, it *needs* -- free disk space to operate optimally.
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Snow leopard brings out your Mac's full potential by freeing up disk space, and adding features to enhance your already installed programs.
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It did clear maybe 5 GB of Hard disk space so that is atleast good
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It told me I was out of disk space (I wasn't).I know all the great features Apple put into SL (which I why I upgraded so early in the life-cycle) and was loving them (smart disk eject, click and hold on an app in the Dock and see all the occurences of that app, super fast boot times, etc).
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Snow Leopard has some nice features, and it freed up about 48GB of hard disk space, however after loading it both my printer & scanner would not
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Reviews around drive (1.24 of 5)
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So there was a 9GB increase in my available hard drive space.
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This will not do that without reformatting your hard drive
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My leopard was running fine on my mac, but I thought it would be nice to upgrade and save hard drive space and a boost of speed
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It frees up a bunch of space on your hard drive for one
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The other visible improvment is the available space in your hard drive
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Product Description Mac OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard, a simpler, more powerful, and more refined version of Mac OS X
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It delivers a wide range of enhancements, next-generation technologies, out-of-the-box support for Microsoft Exchange Server, and new accessibility features
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It's the world's most advanced operating system, finely tuned from installation to shutdown
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System Requirements: Mac computer with an Intel processor 1GB of memory 5GB of available disk space DVD drive for installation Some features require a compatible internet service provider: fees may apply
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Amazon.com Mac OS X Snow Leopard is an even more powerful and refined version of the world’s most advanced operating system
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In ways big and small, it gets faster, more reliable, and easier to use
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New core technologies unleash the power of today’s advanced hardware technology and prepare Mac OS X for future innovation
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And Snow Leopard includes built-in support for the latest version of Microsoft Exchange Server, so you can use your Mac at home and at work
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The world's most advanced operating system
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Finely tuned
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Top Updates in Mac OS X Mac OS X is the world’s most advanced operating system
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Built on a rock-solid UNIX foundation and designed to be simple and intuitive, it’s what makes the Mac innovative, highly secure, compatible, and easy to use
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The next-generation media technology, QuickTime X powers the audio and video experience in Snow Leopard
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Now Exposé is integrated in the Dock, giving you a quick and easy way to see all the open windows of an application
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Better, faster, easier
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Mac OS X Snow Leopard includes hundreds of improvements that will help make your Mac faster, more responsive, and more reliable than ever
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Installation is up to 50 percent faster than with Mac OS X Leopard; wake from sleep is as much as two times faster; shutdown is up to 80 percent faster; and initial Time Machine backups to Time Capsule are up to 80 percent faster than in Leopard.2 Dock
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Now Exposé is integrated in the Dock, giving you a quick and easy way to see all the open windows of an application
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Finder
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The Finder has been completely rewritten to take advantage of the new technologies in Snow Leopard
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The familiar Finder interface is unchanged, but you’ll discover that the Finder is faster and more responsive
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It also includes an enhanced icon view with live file previews, so you can thumb through a multipage document or even watch a QuickTime movie
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New core technologies
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New core technologies in Snow Leopard unleash the power of today’s advanced hardware and prepare Mac OS X for future innovation
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QuickTime X
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The next-generation media technology, QuickTime X powers the audio and video experience in Snow Leopard
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It debuts a completely new QuickTime Player application with a clean, uncluttered interface as well as an easy way to record, trim, and share your media
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Out-of-the-box support for Microsoft Exchange
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Snow Leopard includes out-of-the-box support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 in Mail, iCal, and Address Book, so it’s easier than ever to take your Mac to work
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Safari 4
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The latest version of the blazing-fast web browser delivers up to 50 percent faster JavaScript performance2 and is more resistant to crashes than ever
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Universal Access
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Every Mac comes standard with a wide range of assistive—or Universal Access—technologies that help people with disabilities experience what the Mac has to offer
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Snow Leopard continues this support with a variety of innovative features that advance accessibility even further.