Snow Leopard Feature

Oh, Snow Leopard Frees Up Disk Space All Right

John Paczkowski in News on October 13, 2009 at 9:00 am PT

Apple has finally acknowledged that a bug in its new Snow Leopard operating system can, on rare occasions, result in a catastrophic loss of data. The glitch, which first surfaced in support forums in early September, is triggered by logging in and out of a guest account and wipes the main user account of all data. Clearly, this is not what Apple meant when it claimed the OS would free up as much as seven gigs of space upon installation.

Snow Leopard Outselling Leopard 2 to 1

John Paczkowski in News on September 17, 2009 at 10:54 am PT

Snow Leopard’s under-the-hood improvements and low price point are evidently making up for the operating system’s lack of new bells and whistles. Market research outfit NPD reports that the latest iteration of Apple’s Mac OS X is selling twice as fast as Leopard and almost four times faster than Tiger.

Snow Leopard, Windows 7 and Netbooks

Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on September 2, 2009 at 2:56 pm PT

Walt answers reader questions about running Snow Leopard on PowerPC Macintoshes, the Windows 7 name, and sharing files with netbooks.

Hello Kitty–A Snow Leopard Review Roundup

John Paczkowski in News on August 28, 2009 at 11:44 am PT

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, the latest iteration of Apple’s operating system, arrived at market today–about a month earlier than originally anticipated. And while it doesn’t really deliver the GUI enhancements we’ve come to expect from Apple and some incompatibilities are riling people up, Snow Leopard’s under-the-hood improvements and price point appear to have struck a chord with critics. After the jump, a selection of early reviews.

And for You Windows Users, We’re Offering Snow Leopard Home Premium, Snow Leopard Ultimate and Snow Leopard Insanely Great

John Paczkowski in News on August 25, 2009 at 11:03 am PT

Apple has repeatedly characterized its forthcoming Snow Leopard operating system as an under-the-hood upgrade to the Mac OS, one that focuses on performance enhancements rather than new features.

Snow Leopard Ships Aug. 28

John Paczkowski in News on August 24, 2009 at 5:58 am PT

The Apple Store went offline earlier this morning and when it returned, its homepage featured Mac OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard. Available for preorder today, the next iteration of the Mac OS will ship Aug. 28 as a $29 upgrade.

Upgrading Macs

Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on August 12, 2009 at 2:24 pm PT

Walt Mossberg answers questions on Macs moving to the new Snow Leopard; getting help moving to Windows 7 and cleaning up your PC.

WWDC Keynote LIVE: Microsoft Exchange and Snow Leopard

John Paczkowski in News on June 8, 2009 at 11:15 am PT

“We’ve decided to build Microsoft Exchange support into Snow Leopard,” says Serlet to much applause. A quick demo of this new feature shows set-up is extraordinarily easy. Corporate Exchange accounts are auto-discovered and searchable via Leopard technologies — regardless of whether a user has Microsoft Office installed on their local machine. iCal and Address Book offers integrated views of Exchange events and contacts and local events and contacts. The integration seems very slick and easy. It also supports Exchange’s location and availability features.

WWDC 2009 Keynote LIVE: Safari 4, Dock Expose, Quicktime and Grand Central Dispatch

John Paczkowski in News on June 8, 2009 at 11:01 am PT

Moving on now to Safari 4, which is shipping from Apple today for Leopard, Tiger, AND Windows … Safari 4 offers unsurpassed speed for HTML and Javascript. It’s also Acid3 compliant. Safari 4 is 100 percent compliant as opposed to IE, which is 21 percent compliant. Safari 4 is also more crash-resistant and 40 percent faster than its predecessors.