MAC WORD PROCESSOR DEFAULT SNOW LEOPARD INSTALL
MAC WORD PROCESSOR DEFAULT SNOW LEOPARD UPGRADE

Importantly, you can also do more with it once its opened, whether that be transferring out information вЂ“ columns in PDFs are now respected by text highlighting, and in fact Preview has a far more intelligent attitude to page layout вЂ“ or editing and annotating it. Similarly speedy is the newly fettled Preview app, and while we're not sure whether it quite tallies with Apple's claims of JPEG opening being 2.3x faster or PDFs loading 1.4x faster, it's certainly a quicker viewer than before. As a strategy it could so easily have been scuppered by lagging preview generation or sluggish thumbnails, but in fact despite the extra content being shuffled behind the scenes it's actually considerably faster than we're used to from Leopard. It's a system that, overall, enables you to spend less time Command-Tabbing or navigating through folders in Finder, as well as allowing you to bypass waiting for apps to load simply to preview a document or video and make sure it's the one you wanted.

MAC WORD PROCESSOR DEFAULT SNOW LEOPARD INSTALL

Incidentally, while Apple require 5GB of free space for the install process as a whole, Snow Leopard in fact frees up a total of 7GB previously used by Leopard once the update is complete.

MAC WORD PROCESSOR DEFAULT SNOW LEOPARD UPGRADE

It's hard to imagine that people might attempt to upgrade their MacBook while running on battery only, but some will and they вЂ“ together with those interrupted by power cuts, burst fuses and similar вЂ“ can rest assured that Snow Leopard will resume without data loss. OS X 10.6 also leaves your existing apps and data untouched вЂ“ though we'd argue that such behavior is an expected aspect rather than a boasting point these days вЂ“ together with being designed to seamlessly pick up the install baton at a later point should your first attempt be interrupted. There's a lot to be said for an OS upgrade that makes reliability its initial promise, and we had no issues installing Snow Leopard вЂ“ a roughly 30 minute endeavor вЂ“ on any of our test machines. After the cut, why 64-bit matters, how Apple have streamlined the way you interact with your data, and why Snow Leopard might just be the bargain of the year.

SlashGear has been testing out Snow Leopard over the past few weeks, and we've found that perhaps its most satisfying aspect is that it upgrades things both visibly and less obviously, rather than one or the other. Apple is finally delivering their latest version of OS X, v10.6 Snow Leopard, adding a new coat of polish to the company's software prowess. Ask any Mac owner and they'll likely tell you the Apple allure is a game of two halves: the reassuring hardware and the slick, consistent OS.

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