“The improvements in Snow Leopard fall into two categories,” Ihnatko reports. “They’ve made fundamental improvements in the OS that allow both system software and applications to wring the full potential out of the multiple CPUs inside every new and old Intel-based Mac. And while Snow Leopard might not feature any revolutionary new user features, you’ll find many neat little enhancements have been made and many minor annoyances that have been done away with.”
Ihnatko reports, “Snow Leopard is seriously faster than its predecessor… Time after time, Snow Leopard “caught me reaching.” That is, I’d launch a complicated app and my Mac would complete the task while I was reaching for my deskside beverage. Going for a sip of Dr. Pepper is a reflex action; under 10.5, I know I have time to get a drink and put the glass back on its coaster before my Mac is ready to receive visitors once again. The performance enhancements aren’t perceptible across the board, but in many operations the improvement is downright flamboyant.”
Ihnatko reports, “Normally, an Apple OS update costs $129. Snow Leopard will cost existing Leopard users all of $29 [which] represents perhaps the most emphatic middle finger that Apple’s ever extended towards Microsoft’s general direction. In the past five years, Microsoft has done far less with Windows than Apple has done with the Mac OS… $29? To make your Mac this much faster? It’s a gimme.”
There’s much more in this entertaining-as-usual and chock-full review – highly recommended – here.