A Guide To Mac OS Snow Leopard

Launched in the summer of 2009, the Mac OS Snow Leopard is the new Apple operating system for Mac machines. It is the seventh operating system from Apple to be released and the most successful due to its small cost of £25. It has been greatly altered to be more efficient and have a smaller memory footprint since the last OS from Mac, the Tiger OS.

The Mac OS X Snow Leopard is an upgrade from the last OS, which mainly focuses upon memory, performance and efficiency improvements. Very little has changed in the way of interface, looks and user's experience, although there have been some vital system readjustments, including the use of 64 bit, making your computer faster and more secure. Snow Leopard still supports 32 bit applications, but has drastically improved upon user experience of these by speeding up processors and limiting Safari's (Apple's internet browser) problems with crashing.

Apple Mac have improved upon prior operating systems, by including a greater control over power management. For instance their Wake on Demand feature, which means the computer automatically wakes up when requested by the router carrying out queries, allows greater control and management over power and processes.

Furthermore, the central unit, Grand Central Dispatch, has made parallel programming way more efficient. It acts as a central point that organises all that is needed for a program to run, rather than allows individual applications to organise the processes, enabling the computer to use far less memory and run way faster.

So overall, the Mac OS Snow Leopard is faster, more efficient and more powerful, making it the ultimate specialist system for those with computer intensive jobs, such as programmers and graphic designers. For Mac OS Snow Leopard to run your need a Mac computer with intel processor, 1GB of RAM, 5GB of free disc space and a DVD drive. The Mac OS Snow Leopard is not, however, supported by Power Macs, PowerBooks, iBooks,eMacs, iMacs and some models pre 2006.