Introduction

Mac OS X is renowned for its simplicity, its reliability, and its ease of use. So when it came to designing Snow Leopard, Apple engineers had a single goal: to make a great thing even better. They searched for areas to refine, further simplify, and speed up — from little things like ejecting external drives to big things like installing the OS. In many cases, they elevated great to amazing. Here are just a few examples of how your Mac experience was fine-tuned.

Reviews

Ars Technica | John Siracusa | August 31, 2009
Mac OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard has landed. This time around, Apple goes light on the glitz in favor of some heavy work under the hood. John Siracusa dives deep into Apple’s new OS offering to see what’s new, what’s still the same, and whether it’s worth upgrading.

Engadget | Joshua Topolsky | August 26 2009
Here’s the thing about Snow Leopard, the single inescapable fact that hung over our heads as we ran our tests and took our screenshots and made our graphs: it’s $30. $30! If you’re a Leopard user you have virtually no reason to skip over 10.6, unless you’ve somehow built a mission-critical production workflow around an InputManager hack (in which case, well, have fun with 10.5 for the rest of your life).

User Interface

Snow Leopard UI roundup | September 11, 2009
It’s that time again: A new big cat is upon us, and while it hasn’t brought about the rumored ‘Marble’ aesthetic, there’s been a lot of enhancements, tweaks, and improvements to the user interface and graphics of Mac OS X 10.6, commonly known as Snow Leopard.

Hacks

Setting Paste and Match Style as default | Thaweesak Suksuwan | June 15, 2009
Pasting formatted text as plain text in applications.
Applications in OS X tend to keep the formatting of the text that you have copied. Some might find this useful, but the author find this extremely annoying.

Vibrant Ink for Leopard Terminal | Thaweesak Suksuwan | December 6, 2007
Applying Vibrant Ink color scheme to OS X Terminal
Love the Vibrant Ink color scheme? Wanted to apply the vibrant colors to your terminal window? Now you can.

Videos

Mac OS X Snow Leopard – David Pogue Review

David Pogue on the new operating system from Apple, Snow Leopard.

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