Refined, not reinvented.
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.
A more advanced, more nimble Finder.
The Finder has been completely rewritten in Cocoa to take advantage of all the modern technologies in Mac OS X, including 64-bit support and Grand Central Dispatch. It’s more responsive from top to bottom, with snappier performance throughout the Finder. And it includes new features such as customizable Spotlight search options and an enhanced icon view that lets you thumb through a multipage document or watch a QuickTime movie.
New look, new features for Exposé and Stacks.
Exposé is refined and more convenient. It’s now integrated in the Dock, so you can just click and hold an application icon in the Dock and all the windows for that application will unshuffle so you can quickly change to another one. Exposé also has a whole new look. Windows are displayed in an organized grid, making it even easier to find what you’re looking for. And stacks — Dock items that give you fast access to a folder of files — are now scrollable, so you can easily view all items. You can also navigate through folders in a stack to see all the files inside it.
Quicker Time Machine backup.
Introduced in Mac OS X Leopard, the revolutionary Time Machine made backing up your hard drive easy for the first time. Time Capsule took backup even further with its wireless hard drive that works seamlessly with Time Machine. Now Snow Leopard makes Time Machine up to 80 percent faster and reduces the time it takes to complete your initial backup to Time Capsule.
Faster to wake up and shut down.
With Snow Leopard, your Mac wakes from sleep up to twice as quickly when you have screen locking enabled. And shutting down is up to 80 percent faster, saving precious moments when you’re trying to head home or to the airport.
Faster, more reliable installation.
Upgrading your Mac has never been easier. For Snow Leopard, the entire process has been simplified, streamlined, and is up to 50 percent faster, yet more comprehensive and reliable.2 For example, Snow Leopard checks your applications to make sure they’re compatible and sets aside any programs known to be incompatible. In case a power outage interrupts your installation, it can start again without losing any data.
Smaller footprint.
Snow Leopard takes up less than half the disk space of the previous version, freeing about 7GB for you — enough for about 1,750 more songs3 or a few thousand more photos.
Another leap forward for QuickTime.
QuickTime X is the next-generation media technology that powers the audio and video experience in Mac OS X Snow Leopard. It includes a completely new QuickTime Player application with a clean, uncluttered design, a new trimming interface, and easy uploads to YouTube and MobileMe. And it delivers more efficient media playback, HTTP-based live streaming, and greater color accuracy.
[ Installation Tutorials ]
Burn Using DVD-DL
What you need:
- Disk Utility.
- DVD-DL (Dual Layer/DVD9).
- DVD+/-R DL Burner.
1. Mount the "Mac OS X Install DVD.iso"
2. Open Disk Utility.
3. From the drive list on the left, select the .iso image (Mac OS X Install DVD).
4. Click "Burn" to burn on your dual layer DVD.
5. When the disc is burnt, restart your computer and hold 'c' to boot from the DVD.
6. Follow the instructions to install Snow Leopard.
Install via USB Flash Drive/External Hard Drive
What you need:
- Disk Utility.
- USB Flash Drive/External Hard Drive with at least 8GB of free space.
1. Mount the "Mac OS X Install DVD.iso"
2. Plug in your USB Flash Drive/External Hard Drive.
3. Open Disk Utility.
4. Select your USB Flash Drive/External Hard Drive from the drive list on the left.
5. You'll see "First Aid, Erase, Partition, RAID, Restore."
6. Click on "Partition."
7. Under "Volume Scheme", Select "1 Partition."
8. Once selected, hit the "Option" button at the bottom of the map.
9. A window will pop-up, select the "GUID Partition Table" option.
10. Once its done, navigate to the "Restore" tab.
11. From the drive list on the left, drag the mounted Snow Leopard .iso to the "Source" field, and drag your USB Flash Drive/External Hard Drive to the "Destination" field.
12. Click "Restore."
13. Close Disk Utility, Open up System Preferences. Under "System," choose "Startup Disk,"
14. Your USB Flash Drive/External Hard Drive should be listed as the Snow Leopard installation disk. Select and click "Restart."
15. Follow the instructions to install Snow Leopard.
[ Snow Leopard Manuals/Refs. ]
Welcome to Snow Leopard
_http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/Welcome_to_Snow_Leopard.pdf
Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard - Installation and Setup Guide
_http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/Snow_Leopard_Installation_Instructions.pdf
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Compatibility List
_http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/
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