“Apple doesn’t need to make a vista-sized leap on Friday, when it migrates from its Mac OS X Leopard operating system to Snow Leopard,” Edward C. Baig reports for USA Today. “In the nearly two years since Leopard pounced onto the scene, it has elicited a far different reaction from the Mac faithful than Windows Vista has with the PC crowd.”
“Snow Leopard should delight Mac fans, especially those who use Exchange at work. Leopard users can upgrade to Snow Leopard for just $29 (or $49 for a five-computer license), compared with the $129 it cost to go from the OS X Tiger to Leopard,” Baig reports.
MacDailyNews Note: Please see: Apple’s $29 Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard disc installs just fine on Tiger Macs – August 27, 2009
Baig continues, “Apple says there are hundreds of refinements and performance-boosting new technologies built into Snow Leopard, but many are under the hood. For example, Snow Leopard can make better use of the graphic chips in today’s computers. It can also take advantage of the ’64-bit’ processors now built into all Macs, so applications will be able to make the most out of the processor and memory on such systems.”
“In my experience, Mac OS X was already a superior operating system to Windows,” Baig reports. “With Exchange and other technologies, Snow Leopard adds bite, especially for business. But as upgrades go, this one is relatively tame.”
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MacDailyNews Take: And as reviews go, this one is relatively lame. Read Pogue’s and Mossberg’s Snow Leopard reviews if you want any real information.
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