Mac OS X Snow LeopardPortable Genius

Mac OS X Snow LeopardPortable Genius, 9780470436370 (0470436379), John Wiley & Sons, 2009

A great deal of Snow Leopard’s improvements to Mac OS X are under the hood. You won’t notice too many differences cosmetically between Snow Leopard and its predecessor, Leopard. Let’s check out some of Snow Leopard’s more prominent goodies:

Greatly reduced footprint. Snow Leopard requires considerably less hard drive space
than previous versions of Mac OS X.

64-bit extension. Apple has extended the capabilities of its 64-bit technology so that Mac OS X can now accommodate insane amounts of RAM (memory). As a matter of fact, theoretically your Mac could now support up to 16 terabytes of memory, which is about 500 times more than in Leopard (the previous version of Mac OS X).

Microsoft Exchange support. Snow Leopard has built-in support for Microsoft Exchange 2007. This means that applications such as Mail, Address Book, and iCal can use the Exchange Web Services protocol to access your e-mails, contacts, and calendars.

Grand Central. All new Macs have multicore processors, and now with a new set of technologies called Grand Central, your Mac can make full use of these processors by making the entire operating system multicore aware. If you’re a regular guy like me, this means your Mac is going to speed up dramatically.

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