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Tags: computer software, software, upgrade to snow leopard
 After several reviews about the Windows 7 I should really do a take on the new Snow Leopard. It's not that I dislike Macs or Apple in general as some might believe after reading several of my older posts, but I just haven’t had a moment to say something positive about them yet. Before anything else, I'd like to justify myself, before I do anymore posts and sound like a pretentious hipster, by doing a spin off of Oscar Wilde: I don't believe in inferior or superior technology; There is only technology that works or technology that doesn't work. That is all. So, what is the amazing thing about it? It's not really so much as a thing; rather, there are amazing things about it.
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For one thing, you can't argue with the price that it costs to upgrade to Snow Leopard. At $30, you're letting the customer know that you're taking are of them. But, what are you buying for $30? The Snow Leopard didn't really come out with a bang of incredible new features. As a matter of fact, the newest features are basically just some improvements of the applications that its predecessor already had. You'll get to "stack" windows upon each other or side by side so that you'll have an easier time browsing and what not. Another plus is the new QuickTime 10.
It will have this new feature that'll allow the buttons and borders to disappear whenever you move the mouse away, but I'm still not sure how big a difference this is. The biggest plus to Snow Leopard is its ability to move faster than ever before. I actually appreciate this more than sending out a new OS with features that might seem alien to the general public. It isn't trying to be flashy or intimidating. Developers know that they have something good and they stick by it. They don't need a new way to win the crowd; they've already won their crowd. Apple knows it has something good and they know that it could have been done better, so they made it better. The OS X is faster and friendlier than it ever has. There are some people out there that believe Snow Leopard shouldn't even be called a true operating system, since it's more of a service pack rather than something totally different. At $30, I don't think those people have much to complain about. We’ve seen in the Vista how a drastic change can take a turn for the worse. As I’ve said before, Vista really isn’t bad, it just isn’t as good as the XP and it can’t run Starcraft. I don’t think I need to tell the Mac users out there to upgrade to Snow Leopard. The only question is, will other people be drawn into the wonders of the new OS, or will they ignore it and treat it as a service pack? [ via gizmodo ]
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Jego Goldstein is a successful Computer Analyst who has been testing and developing software for many years. Learn how to master Microsoft Excel with this VIDEO COURSE . Click here for more information about Easy Excel Basics.
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