Amazing Features Of Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Mac OS X Snow Leopard is the latest asus a32-f8 battery, asus a32-f80 battery version of Mac OS X operating systems. Mac OS X family is mainly used on Apple's desktop and server systems for Macintosh computers. The first public presentation of Snow Leopard was performed at Apple Worldwide Developer Conference on 8th June 2009. Later, it was commercially launched worldwide on 28th August 2009. The price of Snow Leopard is $29 and available on Apple's website for purchase.

System Requirements

The minimum basic hardware requirements of Snow Leopard include a Mac computer with an Intel processor, 1GB of RAM, 5GB of hard disk space and DVD drive or external USB drive. Core Solo and Core Duo processors which belong to Yonah family can run only 32 bit applications. 64 bit architecture of x86 family can run the 64 bit applications. Apart form these basic requirements, some extra hardware is required to utilize certain features. Nvidia GeForce 9400M,320M or GT 330M graphics card is required for QuickTime H.264 hardware acceleration. To use OpenCL feature, Nvidia or ATI graphics card is necessary. Though Snow Leopard cannot run on PowerPC based Macs dell inspiron 1440 battery, dell inspiron 1750 battery, PowerPC applications could be supported via a dynamic translator called Rosetta.

Improved And New Features

Compared to its previous versions, the performance,efficiency and memory usage of Snow Leopard have improved considerably. Though there is not much change in the user interface, Snow Leopard incorporated many changes in the system which run in the background. Boot Camp utility in the Snow Leopard, now enabled the Windows partition to read and copy files from HFS+ partitions. It also supports advanced features on multimedia displays and and a new command-line version of the Startup Disk Control Panel. Finder, the default file manager on MAC OS X, has been totally redesigned and rewritten in Cocoa to utilize the new technologies. Snow Leopard occupied 7GB less memory than its predecessor Leopard. It integrated Microsoft Exchange into Mail,Address Book and iCal applications. The only drawback is that Snow leopard supports only Microsoft Exchange 2007. Another improved feature is that full multi touch track pad is supported. In the previous version the four finger gesture could not be used. Also VoiceOver has been improved considerably in Snow Leopard. Now VoiceOver functions could be controlled using trackpad gestures hp compaq 8510p battery, hp compaq 8710p battery. Time machine connection setup will now take much less time.

Technology Enhancement

Snow Leopard covers the entire 64 bit applications that use most of the libraries of Mac OS X. The built-in applications of Snow Leopard can run in 32 bit mode on 32 bit machines and in 64 bit mode on 64 bit machines. The kernel of Snow Leopard has been designed to run in 64 bit mode and support 16 terabytes of Ram on some machines. 64 bit kernel of Snow Leopard will run on Xserve and Mac Pro machines by default.

Security Features

Snow Leopard comes with anti Malware features, which will alert the user as soon as Malware is detected. Apart from that it features stack protection and browser plug ins.

Support

In case the users face any problem while using Snow Leopard, 24 hours of PC Support is available from various service providers dell inspiron 1464 battery, dell inspiron 1764 battery. Any complex difficulty could also be resolved through remote support.