Snow Leopard review
Updated: Our in-depth verdict on Apple Mac OS X 10.6
Our Score
Last reviewed: 2009-09-03September 3rd 2009
Operating systems Review
Product Summary
Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6)
Price at launch
£25.00
For
Improved performance
>Reduced - not increased – footprint
>Built-in Exchange support
>Stacks and Exposé much more useful
>Hugely improved Services
>Lots of minor beneficial tweaks
>Extremely affordable
>The beginnings of malware protection
>Recording, trimming and sharing in QuickTime Player
Against
The usual third-party software incompatibilities
>PowerPC owners are stuffed
>Rosetta not installed by default
>Some dodgy interface decisions/no unified UI
>A few bugs lurking - even in Apple software
>QuickTime Player feature-set should have gone further
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