Mac OS X is renowned for its simplicity, its reliability, and its ease of use .
When it came to designing Snow Leopard, Apple engineers had a single goal: to make a great thing even better.
Snow Leopard was released on August 28, 2009, and is available as an upgrade for Intel-based Macintosh computers.
Mac OS X Snow Leopard , the seventh major release of Mac OS X, Apple's desktop and server Unix-based operating system.
This version of Mac OS X focuses on improving performance, efficiency and reducing its overall memory footprint compared with its predecessor
Requirements:
Apple states the following basic Snow Leopard system requirements
Mac computer with an Intel processor
1 GB of RAM
5 GB of free disk space
DVD drive or external USB or FireWire DVD drive for installation
Features:
The Finder has been completely rewritten in 64-bit Cocoa to take advantage of the new technologies introduced in Snow Leopard. This has resulted in a much smaller OS footprint, taking up about 7 GB less space than the older version .
Upgrading Snow Leopard, has been simplified, streamlined, and is up to 50 percent faster In case a power outage interrupts your installation, it can start again without losing any data. Snow Leopard, wakes from sleep up to twice as quickly when you have screen locking enabled. And shutting down is up to 80 percent faster.
The Mac is the only computer that supports braille displays right out of the box. Snow Leopard also introduces a new feature, braille mirroring, that enables multiple USB displays to be connected to one computer simultaneously.
Snow Leopard improves the reliability of ejecting discs and external drives. In Snow Leopard, when you cannot eject the disk , you’ll see exactly which application is using the drive, so you can quit it and eject the drive properly.
QuickTime X ,includes a completely new QuickTime Player application with easy uploads to YouTube and MobileMe and it delivers more efficient media playback, and greater color accuracy.
Snow Leopard offers a breakthrough new way to enter characters: You write them directly on the Multi-Touch trackpad in your Mac notebook.
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