{"id":209,"date":"2009-09-11T10:55:01","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T15:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/?p=209"},"modified":"2009-09-11T10:55:01","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T15:55:01","slug":"straight-talk-about-snow-leopard-10-6-should-you-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/straight-talk-about-snow-leopard-10-6-should-you-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Straight Talk About Snow Leopard 10.6 &#8211; &#8220;Should You Upgrade?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B001AMHWP8\/?tag=macworks-20\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Snow Leopard 10.6\" src=\"https:\/\/beta.e2ma.net\/userdata\/1400140\/images\/medium\/scaled_e1252026147.jpg\" alt=\"Snow Leopard 10.6\" width=\"240\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snow Leopard 10.6<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As of this writing, Snow Leopard has been out approximately three weeks and we have been getting many questions regarding upgrading.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\">An important point to remember is that Snow Leopard 10.6,\u00a0 runs on Intel-based Macs only. Previous 10.5 &#8220;Leopard&#8221; release is the last version of Mac OS X which will support PowerPC-based systems.<\/p>\n<p>10.6 is essentially a rewrite of the core operating and with a $29 price ($49 for 5-user family packs) Apple&#8217;s pricing is\u00a0 aggressive suggesting that they want users to upgrade<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Some of the major benefits are as follows:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\">Snow Leopard&#8217;s biggest benefit is the speed increases it gets, even on older Intel Macs<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\">The Dock and Menu Bar are enhanced so you can do more tasks with less effort<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\">If you are on an Exchange Server, you can now use Apple Mail intend of Microsoft&#8217;s Entourage<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\">The new Quicktime X will allow you to Record, Edit, and Publish Video Clips and Screencasts <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\">Putting Your Mac To Sleep and Waking from Sleep is much faster along with quicker Time Machine Backups<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\">There is great article on <strong>Lifehacker<\/strong> called\u00a0 &#8211;<a title=\"LifeHacker\" rel=\"LifeHacker noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5350650\/snow-leopards-four-best-improvements-for-civilians\"> <\/a><a title=\"LifeHacker\" rel=\"LifeHacker noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5350650\/snow-leopards-four-best-improvements-for-civilians\"><em>Snow Leopard&#8217;s Four Best Improvements (for Civilians)<\/em> &#8211; <strong>click here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Important! &#8211;<\/strong><\/span> Whenever you update, make sure you make a full bootable backup before updating.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of this writing, Snow Leopard has been out approximately three weeks and we have been getting many questions regarding upgrading. An important point to remember is that Snow Leopard 10.6,\u00a0 runs on Intel-based Macs only. Previous 10.5 &#8220;Leopard&#8221; release is the last version of Mac OS X which will support PowerPC-based systems. 10.6 is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,31],"tags":[118,41,26],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-apple-products","category-leopard","tag-apple","tag-mac-ct","tag-macworks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}