
This is a welcome feature for everyone from traveling photographers to college students flying home for winter break. Wherever they go, MacBook and MacBook Pro users will always be on the local time. When a Snow Leopard enabled Mac connects to the internet, date and time are automatically updated based on time zone. In fact, the nicest performance updates are the most likely to go overlooked. Leopard users will find little changed in the Snow Leopard interface. When a new printer is connected, the OS seeks out drivers using the internet continuing Apple's seamless, no-install-disc-required experience. If you've used printers with a USB connection or over a network, Snow Leopard installs their required drivers automatically. The installer manages everything-even a required auto restart.īy eliminating unneeded print drivers and other bloated material, Snow Leopard offers back nearly 7GB of Leopard-hungry hard drive space. Once installation has begun, you can simply walk away. Simple and streamlined, the process requires no more than a few clicks.

Snow Leopard installs faster than any previous version of OS X. While early adopters will certainly gain a host of performance tweaks, what really makes the software special is its focus on the future.

As its name implies, Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6) offers a slightly upgraded experience to the Cupertino-based company's previous operating system, Leopard. Built on top of Unix, the operating system has received high praise from both developers and end users for its stability, powerful feature set, and genuine ease of use. It's been nearly a decade since Apple launched the first version of Mac OS X.
