11. Enhanced view options
In Finder, you can now change the file sort order in Column view. Icons can also be displayed in Icon view at a frankly silly 512 x 512 pixels.
12. Better accessibility
The enhanced VoiceOver utility showcases major improvements to assistive technologies within Mac OS X.
13. Recording and trimming in QuickTime
QuickTime X can record from your Mac's camera or screen, and the results can be trimmed and shared to iTunes or YouTube.
14. Date and time in the menu bar
The Clock tab within the Date & Time System Preferences pane finally offers a 'Show date' option, so the time and date can be shown simultaneously in the menu bar.
15. Time-zone tracking
The Mac's time zone setting can now automatically update as you move around the world.
16. iCal events inspectors
Edit an event and you can tear off the dialog as a separate inspector. Alternatively, set this as the default via the Advanced preferences - Open events in separate windows.
17. Sandboxed Safari plug-ins
When Flash crashes, Safari doesn't. Worth 25 quid on its own to most people, we'd say.
18. Automatic printer driver updates
Plug in a printer and Snow Leopard makes sure it has the right driver—and it periodically checks for updates and downloads them via Software Update.
19. Faster wake and shut down
We're not sure sleeping and waking our Mac is now twice as fast (as per Apple's claim), but it's damn close.
20. Smaller footprint
OK, so we're adding one 'architecture' feature: install Snow Leopard and you end up with more—not less—space on your Mac. We got back over 20 GB, another install yielded 9GB.
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