Verdict’s In: Snow Leopard Review Roundup
Even though it’s not quite cold enough for snow in most of the U.S. Apple’s latest upgrade, Snow Leopard, has arrived on store shelves and will be hitting the doorsteps of Mac owners in what’s sure to be a busy day for UPS and FEDEX.
So how does the big cat upgrade stack up? The good news is that most of the reviews agree that Snow Leopard is a solid upgrade and despite its lack of major changes to OSX the little tweaks and behind the scenes changes coupled with the low upgrade price earn it recommendations from across the web.
Gizmodo OS X Snow Leopard seems to do nothing really new. And yet, it could be their most important OS since 10.0.0.†… But my thought is that Snow Leopard’s biggest feature is that it doesn’t have any new features, but that what is already there has been refined, one step closer to perfection.†– Brian Lam
All Things Digital Overall, I believe Snow Leopard will help keep the Mac an appealing choice for computer buyers, and I can recommend it to existing Mac owners seeking more speed and disk space, or wanting to more easily use Exchange. But I don’t consider Snow Leopard a must-have upgrade for average consumers. It’s more of a nice-to-have upgrade. If you’re happy with Leopard, there’s no reason to rush out and get Snow Leopard.†– Walt Mossberg
Engadget Snow Leopard. Even the name seems to underpromise — it’s the first “big cat” OS X codename to reference the previous version of the OS, and the list of big-ticket new features is seemingly pretty short for a version-number jump.†… [T]he sheer amount of little tweaks and added functionality in 10.6 more than justifies skipping that last round of drinks at the bar — hell, we’re guessing Exchange support alone has made the sale for a lot of people.†- Joshua Topolsky
[Ed. Note - be sure to visit the Engadget review for an impressive amount of images and video to acquaint yourself with Snow Leopard.]
NY Times [I]f you’re already running Leopard, paying the $30 for Snow Leopard is a no-brainer. You’ll feel the leap forward in speed polish, and you’ll keep experiencing those oh, that’s nice†moments for weeks to come.†– David Pogue
Macworld I’d pay $30 just for the improved volume ejection, the ability to create services with Automator, and the improvements to the Dock and Exposé—though I admit I’d pay slightly more to not have the misguided QuickTime Player X as a part of the package. If you’re a user who connects to an Exchange server every day, upgrading to Snow Leopard really is a no-brainer.†Jason Snell
PC World - “Where’s the beef?” … It’s as if someone at Apple grabbed a copy of the Windows 7 beta and simply Xeroxed the release notes.†– Randall C. Kennedy
Wired This upgrade won’t deliver any radical interface changes to blow you away (not that we would want it to), but the $30 price is more than fair for the number of performance improvements Snow Leopard delivers.†– Brian Chen
Impressively the one thing that every reviewer, save PC World, comes back to is that for the price. At $29 ($25 from Amazon.com), Snow Leopard is a great value for almost every Intel Mac owner.
The only issue we saw in almost every review is that due to the under the hood†changes many programs experienced issues running in Snow Leopard so you should be sure to check any third party applications like VMWare Fusion and Adobe products for compatibility before you start the installation.
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Funny that the one negative review comes from “PC World”! Leave it to them to completely miss the point…
Funny that the one negative review comes from “PC World”! Leave it to them to completely miss the point…
Funny that the one negative review comes from “PC World”! Leave it to them to completely miss the point…
Funny that the one negative review comes from “PC World”! Leave it to them to completely miss the point…
I am using it and it’s nothing to write home about. It is a bit faster but why did I pay $30 for something that makes the existing OS faster? Shouldn’t apple be updating its software for its users like MS has been doing all along? This could have been a free download with the money they are making on the overpriced tech…
I am using it and it’s nothing to write home about. It is a bit faster but why did I pay $30 for something that makes the existing OS faster? Shouldn’t apple be updating its software for its users like MS has been doing all along? This could have been a free download with the money they are making on the overpriced tech…
I am using it and it’s nothing to write home about. It is a bit faster but why did I pay $30 for something that makes the existing OS faster? Shouldn’t apple be updating its software for its users like MS has been doing all along? This could have been a free download with the money they are making on the overpriced tech…
I am using it and it’s nothing to write home about. It is a bit faster but why did I pay $30 for something that makes the existing OS faster? Shouldn’t apple be updating its software for its users like MS has been doing all along? This could have been a free download with the money they are making on the overpriced tech…
Too funny what PC World said. Sure – Apple just copied the release notes off of Windows. No need to serve any more koolaid to Randall – he’s had enough!!
Too funny what PC World said. Sure – Apple just copied the release notes off of Windows. No need to serve any more koolaid to Randall – he’s had enough!!
Too funny what PC World said. Sure – Apple just copied the release notes off of Windows. No need to serve any more koolaid to Randall – he’s had enough!!
Too funny what PC World said. Sure – Apple just copied the release notes off of Windows. No need to serve any more koolaid to Randall – he’s had enough!!
Ha ha ha!!!
“Shouldn’t apple be updating its software for its users like MS has been doing all along?”
Yeah, if Mac would just upgrade to an OS like Windows ME they would… Op, I mean, Windows 2000 they would be so…. Op, I mean, Vista they would… Ahhhh forget it, I can’t think of an MS OS that’s worth keeping around. Hell, why should I? Microsoft can’t even think of one.
Good luck with 7 Ben…but I’d put cash on it not being their perfect number.
(Cue pat on back…that was a solid line)
Ha ha ha!!!
“Shouldn’t apple be updating its software for its users like MS has been doing all along?”
Yeah, if Mac would just upgrade to an OS like Windows ME they would… Op, I mean, Windows 2000 they would be so…. Op, I mean, Vista they would… Ahhhh forget it, I can’t think of an MS OS that’s worth keeping around. Hell, why should I? Microsoft can’t even think of one.
Good luck with 7 Ben…but I’d put cash on it not being their perfect number.
(Cue pat on back…that was a solid line)
Ha ha ha!!!
“Shouldn’t apple be updating its software for its users like MS has been doing all along?”
Yeah, if Mac would just upgrade to an OS like Windows ME they would… Op, I mean, Windows 2000 they would be so…. Op, I mean, Vista they would… Ahhhh forget it, I can’t think of an MS OS that’s worth keeping around. Hell, why should I? Microsoft can’t even think of one.
Good luck with 7 Ben…but I’d put cash on it not being their perfect number.
(Cue pat on back…that was a solid line)
Ha ha ha!!!
“Shouldn’t apple be updating its software for its users like MS has been doing all along?”
Yeah, if Mac would just upgrade to an OS like Windows ME they would… Op, I mean, Windows 2000 they would be so…. Op, I mean, Vista they would… Ahhhh forget it, I can’t think of an MS OS that’s worth keeping around. Hell, why should I? Microsoft can’t even think of one.
Good luck with 7 Ben…but I’d put cash on it not being their perfect number.
(Cue pat on back…that was a solid line)
Ken, hop off of Steve job’s dick.
Ken, hop off of Steve job’s dick.
Ken, hop off of Steve job’s dick.
Ken, hop off of Steve job’s dick.
The point remains that it’s a tech upgrade and amazing value for money. If you’re a professional 64 bit support, microsoft exchange and stability and speed tweaks that seem to have are worth 25 peanuts/dubloons/Euros. However if you’re time is spent making jokes about Steve Jobs bell end there might be little in it for you.
The point remains that it’s a tech upgrade and amazing value for money. If you’re a professional 64 bit support, microsoft exchange and stability and speed tweaks that seem to have are worth 25 peanuts/dubloons/Euros. However if you’re time is spent making jokes about Steve Jobs bell end there might be little in it for you.
The point remains that it’s a tech upgrade and amazing value for money. If you’re a professional 64 bit support, microsoft exchange and stability and speed tweaks that seem to have are worth 25 peanuts/dubloons/Euros. However if you’re time is spent making jokes about Steve Jobs bell end there might be little in it for you.
The point remains that it’s a tech upgrade and amazing value for money. If you’re a professional 64 bit support, microsoft exchange and stability and speed tweaks that seem to have are worth 25 peanuts/dubloons/Euros. However if you’re time is spent making jokes about Steve Jobs bell end there might be little in it for you.
I’ve been using PC’s since the first 4.7Mhz clone. I’ve grown with Windows and it WAS great…. …. and also PC World FAN….
Now that I’m older, all I care about is saving time and being productive…. I’ve been the family IT guy forever which became unbearable because Windows, viruses and performance degradation over time…. and to be fair to MS, unstable HW did not help…
Over the last year, everyone I supported (over 25 users now) got converted over to Apple for a simple reason – Time – I now seldom have issues with anyone other than supporting my mother which is now 75YO… My father loves his PC, but all he does is surf the web – keeps on having wireless and printer problems
Ho yah, I forgot – Snow-L family pack of 5 for 59$ Canadian is a great deal… …. just for gaining 12G of HD space on my MACAir….
I’ve been using PC’s since the first 4.7Mhz clone. I’ve grown with Windows and it WAS great…. …. and also PC World FAN….
Now that I’m older, all I care about is saving time and being productive…. I’ve been the family IT guy forever which became unbearable because Windows, viruses and performance degradation over time…. and to be fair to MS, unstable HW did not help…
Over the last year, everyone I supported (over 25 users now) got converted over to Apple for a simple reason – Time – I now seldom have issues with anyone other than supporting my mother which is now 75YO… My father loves his PC, but all he does is surf the web – keeps on having wireless and printer problems
Ho yah, I forgot – Snow-L family pack of 5 for 59$ Canadian is a great deal… …. just for gaining 12G of HD space on my MACAir….
I’ve been using PC’s since the first 4.7Mhz clone. I’ve grown with Windows and it WAS great…. …. and also PC World FAN….
Now that I’m older, all I care about is saving time and being productive…. I’ve been the family IT guy forever which became unbearable because Windows, viruses and performance degradation over time…. and to be fair to MS, unstable HW did not help…
Over the last year, everyone I supported (over 25 users now) got converted over to Apple for a simple reason – Time – I now seldom have issues with anyone other than supporting my mother which is now 75YO… My father loves his PC, but all he does is surf the web – keeps on having wireless and printer problems
Ho yah, I forgot – Snow-L family pack of 5 for 59$ Canadian is a great deal… …. just for gaining 12G of HD space on my MACAir….
I’ve been using PC’s since the first 4.7Mhz clone. I’ve grown with Windows and it WAS great…. …. and also PC World FAN….
Now that I’m older, all I care about is saving time and being productive…. I’ve been the family IT guy forever which became unbearable because Windows, viruses and performance degradation over time…. and to be fair to MS, unstable HW did not help…
Over the last year, everyone I supported (over 25 users now) got converted over to Apple for a simple reason – Time – I now seldom have issues with anyone other than supporting my mother which is now 75YO… My father loves his PC, but all he does is surf the web – keeps on having wireless and printer problems
Ho yah, I forgot – Snow-L family pack of 5 for 59$ Canadian is a great deal… …. just for gaining 12G of HD space on my MACAir….
My VMWare works fine as well as Parrelels after the upgrade to SL. I did try to load office 2004 for Mac and was unsuccesful.
My VMWare works fine as well as Parrelels after the upgrade to SL. I did try to load office 2004 for Mac and was unsuccesful.
My VMWare works fine as well as Parrelels after the upgrade to SL. I did try to load office 2004 for Mac and was unsuccesful.
My VMWare works fine as well as Parrelels after the upgrade to SL. I did try to load office 2004 for Mac and was unsuccesful.