Network administration - When a new operating system upgrade costs only $ 29, you can assume this is just a regular Service Pack. This also happened to Snow Leopard's Mac OS X 10.6 ('brother') because users didn't notice its new features, and many even thought it wasn't worth the price of 129USD .
Many new Snow Leopard improvements are made from the inside. For example, Apple has upgraded the kernel, including many applications and most of the applications of the 64-bit OS (allowing virtual access memory with 16 EB capacity (exabytes) and physical access memory available. capacity over 32GB).
However, until the applications are reprogrammed for 64-bit structures and new Mac models that support that kind of memory, users won't take advantage of many of these changes in the near future. But with the improvement of QuickTimeX and Java tools, it helps to process media and Java applications (used on websites) faster.
In addition to these important long-term improvements, Snow Leopard also has some other notable features and improvements that users can see right away.
1. Support ActiveSync and Exchange 2007
Like the iPhone, Apple has also integrated Microsoft's tools into the Snow Leopard operating system. This means that Apple email, calendar and communication applications can work seamlessly with Exchange 2007 servers to make users feel like they are using Microsoft Entourage but with a better interface and less usage. more memory. In addition, Snow Leopard retains some of the apps that are built into OS X before, such as Mail, iCal and Address Book.
2. Expose's compatibility in Dock
Mac OS X's dock makes it easy to access applications, open commonly used documents and folders, and this tool is also included in the improved Taskbar of Windows 7. Thanks to Expose's compatibility Now it is much easier to open documents.
When you click and hold an application icon in the Dock, you'll see a number of preview windows for each of its open documents that make it easy to switch or close them. You can perform all operations without opening the document window. Although Expose is designed to provide shortcuts to open application windows, it is quite useful in performing these functions.
3. Automatically locate
One of the things to change on the system when we move is time. Usually we have to calculate the time in the area we just arrived based on the time on the system, then access the Time Zone to change the time zone in Date & Time.
Snow Leopard is different because it can do all of this for you (if you install this feature by default) by using Wifi mapping to determine your location, and of course it's only done when you connect to a Wifi hotspot or to a router. Also iCal can adjust the time automatically according to the current time zone, so the calendar will always display the current time most accurately.
4. New Preview tool
If you have used Adobe Reader, you will know the ability to open multiple PDF documents, display the content of such documents as contact pages and display thumbnails of all pages in a Sidebar to make things easier. correction. In other words, this Preview tool is very similar to Adobe Reader but it is capable of downloading much faster than Reader.
5. Movie Record and Screen Capture
Snow Leopard reuses QuickTime Pro ($ 35) and transforms it into a standard application that integrates on Mac OS X. That means you can record Movie and record screen movies from your Mac without Use any extra software.
6. Autotext
Automatic text replacement when entering is nothing new. Microsoft Word has been using this feature for a long time, but Snow Leopard allows users to specify those replacements via keyboard system references, so you will have a replacement to use for all both applications. Currently only TextEdit, Mail and some other Apple applications use this Autotext service, but if other software developers also use it, all of your text-oriented applications can fix the errors themselves. similar method.
7. Do not split the operation
If you've used the 2006 MacBook Pro model, you'll find it troublesome because the touchpad only supports the first contact operation (the movement of one and two fingers), but does not support further operations. Follow with three and four fingers. This issue has been fixed in Snow Leopard for all Macs (Of course, your Mac must have a touchpad, so models before 2006 will not be supported by this upgrade).