Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

This is an article about the Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. While you are reading this article, you must be asking whether the Mac OS X 10.6 will bring any difference to you? Is worth the upgrade? Is Snow Leopard good?

Here is the answer, this upgrade for my Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard costs me RM 39.00 (includes everything - mail, tax and etc..). The reason it is RM 39.00 because I am an eligible MacBook Pro 13 inch owner which i bought it on end of July.

I would say very little changes on the Snow Leopard. It took about 1 hour to install the Snow Leopard. Here i will explain the good and the bad of the Snow Leopard:

Good
1. Free Up 15 GB of my hard disk space on my MacBook Pro 13 inch.
2. Snappier start up time
3. Support of Email Exchange support
4. Fast response on the spotlight (Search Engine)
5. Neatier Expose
6. Better User Interface (UI) - Better Stack
7. Screen Record and easier view while playing videos on the QuickTime X
8. Better Response on the WiFi (Airport wireless)
9. 64 bit Integration (Some Applications are running on 64 bit) wow!
10. Copy and paste pdf (able to copy single column - yet acrobat reader can do it. No difference!)

Bad
1. Expensive (Not worth the upgrade) Apple should Give it for FREE!
2. Modest update. Difference between the Mac OS 10.5 Leopard and the Snow Leopard are similar. (in terms of function and overall). Dock Menus are the same with Leopard! OMG!
3. High Memory (RAM - 2 GB DDR3 RAM not enough!) for normal surfing (eg. iTunes, Microsoft Messenger, Safari, Firefox etc..)
4. Printer problems - cant print because of drivers. ARgh!!
5. Not many software can support the new snow leopard
6. Say goodbye to PowerPC. It only support the Intel Based processors.
7. Safari 4 - like the IE (Internet Explorer 7) crappy. Facebook cant support all applications. Shameful. Opera 9.64 is a better browser!

Therefore, if you want faster performance. It is worth upgrading. Else, not advisable to upgrade now.