Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Features:
Upgrade from Mac OS X Leopard with Snow Leopard, a simpler, more powerful, and more refined version of Mac OS X. It delivers a wide range of enhancements, next-generation technologies, out-of-the-box support for Microsoft Exchange Server, and new accessibility features. It's the world's most advanced operating system, finely tuned from installation to shutdown.
Snow Leopard is an upgrade for Leopard users and requires a Mac with an Intel processor.
Upgrade your Mac experience.
With Snow Leopard, iLife '09, and iWork '09 all in one box, the Mac Box Set is the best way to upgrade your Mac experience, especially if you're still using Mac OS X Tiger.
Overview
Better, faster, easier Updated
Snow Leopard enhances your entire Mac experience. In ways big and small, it gets faster, more reliable, and easier to use.
* Activate Exposé right from the Dock.
* Wake from sleep and shut down your Mac faster than before.
* Install it more quickly and get back 7GB of disk space.
* Enjoy dozens more refinements for everything from iChat to Preview and more.
Next-generation technologies New
New core technologies in Snow Leopard unleash the power of today's advanced hardware and prepare Mac OS X for future innovation.
* 64-bit support, the next big step for the Mac. All key system applications are now 64-bit so they can take advantage of all the memory in your Mac.
* Grand Central Dispatch, a revolutionary new way for software to get the most from multicore processors.
* OpenCL, a new technology that unleashes the power of graphics processors to accelerate application performance.
Safari 4 New
The latest version of Apple's blazing-fast web browser delivers up to 50 percent faster JavaScript performance and is more resistant to crashes than ever.
* Use Top Sites to view your favorite websites at a glance, see which ones have been updated, and visit them in a click.
* Complete search queries as you type with built-in Google Suggest.
* Flip through full-page previews of your browsing history in Cover Flow the same way you flip through album art in iTunes.