Snow Leopard - Mac OS X 10.6

When it comes to purchasing software for further upgrades, people start to think about how Microsoft did it. There will be a new version for upgrade every year, and if you don't upgrade, you feel like you are being left behind in the race.

In a business model, software companies pile more features each time on every upgrade. This resulted in a chunk of source codes that do not run well and on top of that, a bloated operating system that eats into your hard disk size capacity. Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista are such typical examples.

This year, Apple released a new operating system - Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Leopard, Mac OS X 10.5, was already a great operating system that is virus-free, nag-free and not copy-protected. The new version has a great hit - its price is only US$30!

(read on to find out more about Mac OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard...)

Yes, this is not a hoax. Software upgrade would normally cost users a hefty price not lesser than US$100, Apple has caused an alarm to the consumer market by bringing down the price to such an astonishing amount.

In any case, Snow Leopard is truly an optimised version of Leopard. It starts up faster and open programs faster (see example below).

Furthermore, the second time users open the same application, the time is halved!

Snow Leopard also comes at a smaller installation size. Following the speedy installation (of about 15 minutes), users ended with 7GB more free space.

Unfortunately, the only drawback is that Snow Leopard only runs on macs with Intel chips; that is, older Macs are stuck with Leopard.

In this latest release, it completely changes the view what users think about upgrades. Speedier, smaller size, and more optimised solution. This will definitely send out a wave to other software developers to remind them what upgrades should be about.