Snow Leopard, the latest version of the Mac OS, was designed primarily to increase the efficiency and performance of Intel Macs. Learn about Snow Leopard’s new features, as well as how to maintain and get the most out of OS X10.6.
Previous versions of OS X had installers that could perform various types of installations. The most popular were ‘Erase and Install’ (sometimes called a clean install), ‘Archive,’ and ‘Upgrade.’ The Snow Leopard installer has no option for performing any type of installation other than an upgrade, but with a few extra steps, you can get it to perform an ‘Erase and Install’ for you.
Snow Leopard image gallery: These images were taken during the review process for Apple’s new Snow Leopard operating system. Snow Leopard, also known as OS X 10.6, is the first Intel-only operating system to be released by Apple, and the first to make extensive use of Intel’s 64-bit architect
Snow Leopard OS X 10.6 Review: With the introduction of Snow Leopard, Apple took a breather from adding or pumping up features to focus on cleaning up the underlying structure of OS X. The result is one of the fastest and most stable operating systems Apple has ever released.
The default installation method for Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) is an upgrade from Leopard. If you prefer, you can erase your hard drive and start fresh with a clean install (in fact, I highly recommend that method), but in this step-by-step guide, we’ll perform the basic upgrade installation.
Get Your Mac Ready for Snow Leopard: Clean Up, Back Up, Repair Permissions, and Test Your Drive: Getting ready for Snow Leopard involves performing a few basic tasks, including cleaning up your Mac, backing up your files, and verifying that your startup drive is ready for a new OS.
Preview of OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) marks a turning point in Apple’s OS development. It chose to use Snow Leopard to clean out the dust bunnies that had accumulated in OS X over the years. By doing so, Apple created a faster, leaner OS that is less likely to have stability problems and should prove to be a superior foundation for things to come.
Snow Leopard Preview: Snow Leopard introduces Grand Central Dispatch, a technology that promises to make using all of your Mac’s available processors as easy as using a single processor. About: Macs looks at what makes up this technology and how end users will benefit from it.
Snow Leopard Preview: Snow Leopard packs a great deal of new technology under its hood. In this look at Snow Leopard technologies, we examine OpenCL, a method for your Mac to make better use of your graphics card’s GPUs (Graphics Processing Units).
Snow Leopard Preview: Snow Leopard moves the entire Mac operating system to a 64-bit architecture. This new OS architecture brings a 16 exabyte memory space, faster execution of instructions, and added security to Intel Macs.
Snow Leopard Preview: Believe it or not, at the time of this writing, Macs running Snow Leopard will be the only computers with support for Microsoft’s Exchange Server built into their OS. Not even Windows currently has built-in support.
Snow Leopard Technologies: QuickTime X, part of Snow Leopard, brings new capabilities and performance to Macs running on Intel processors. QuickTime X’s new interface and color accurate rendering capabilities may be just the thing if you want to watch video full screen or on an external HDTV.
