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Snow Leopard review

Our in-depth verdict on Apple Mac OS X 10.6

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Product Summary

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Improved performance

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Reduced - not increased – footprint

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Built-in Exchange support

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Stacks and Exposé much more useful

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Hugely improved Services

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Lots of minor beneficial tweaks

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Extremely affordable

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The beginnings of malware protection

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Recording, trimming and sharing in QuickTime Player

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The usual third-party software incompatibilities

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PowerPC owners are stuffed

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Rosetta not installed by default

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Some dodgy interface decisions/no unified UI

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A few bugs lurking - even in Apple software

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QuickTime Player feature-set should have gone further

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