The orignal disks are not available for many of these machines. The Apple Address Book works seamlessly across Mail and iCal so you can quickly bring up global address lists, add people to a meeting including predesigned groups , and invitations will automatically be sent to each attendee. Quick Look lets you view the contents of a file by pressing the space bar and Cover Flow lets you view document previews in a Finder window. We had mixed results with these features depending on the Web page we visited, but mostly we found the features to be useful. The Services menu in Snow Leopard has been rewritten to include only the services relevant to the application or content you're viewing. The name Snow Leopard suggests greater improvements in the previous Leopard version. User interface has also been refined.
Also, Safari checks to see if a site you are visiting is known to be fraudulent, is distributing malware, or is known to be a phishing site, and then warns you if it is. Top Sites, which was already available in Safari 4, lets you navigate to your most viewed Web sites quickly. I heard something about that changing slightly, but I can't remember what. If its the original drive which came with machine and never been fully formatted, boot into recovery mode and do a fresh install from there or just format the partition. Cons This was a waste of time.
Image via Before You Start The obvious first step here is to. You also can now record video from your Webcam, audio, or just the action on your screen with a few clicks. QuickTime X probably received the most interface tweaks in the Snow Leopard update. I have a retail 10. Using Expose in the Dock is very natural and elegant, making us wonder why this wasn't already a feature in Leopard. That particular malware is now automatically detected by File Quarantine in Snow Leopard. Note: In versions of the Lion installer prior to 10.
Snow Leopard now supports Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 out of the box so you can easily connect using Apple's Mail app, grab global address lists in the Address Book, and create meetings with contacts using iCal. As this falls within our typical margin of error 5 percent , we saw no significant difference with application performance when moving from Leopard to Snow Leopard. But in Snow Leopard, Safari is now crash resistant. Update: Apple appears to have recently made this process easier: If you previously purchased Lion from the Mac App Store, the button next to Lion in the Store should simply say Download—click it to re-download the installer. It isn't on the original 10. Keep in mind, however, that unless you purchase a license for each system, then doing this violates Apple's licensing policy of one purchase per installed machine.
I assume you are looking for a free way to do this, as you are selling. Still, we highly recommend upgrading for all the new features and Microsoft Exchange support. Snow Leopard now makes Expose accessible from the Dock; just click and hold on a Dock icon to see thumbnails of all the open windows in that application. Apple is careful to point out that Snow Leopard isn't a complete system overhaul, but rather a collection of hundreds of smaller refinements to make Leopard run more gracefully. Apple says that in the latest Snow Leopard, it has introduced Quick Look and Cover Flow. This means that Preview recognizes that there are multiple columns in your document so you can select the text you want from any column. While all of these are small refinements, each make your Mac easier to use with smart features not found in other operating systems.
It has much more feature which you can read on the official website. You can use Disk Utility's Restore screen to create a bootable flash drive or hard drive. But the killer feature addition for Snow Leopard might be Exchange support out of the box--not even Windows 7 comes with Microsoft Exchange support without buying Microsoft Office. Stacks Stacks got a much-needed upgrade as well. In Snow Leopard you can go to the image, drag it to the Mail icon in the Dock, and your e-mail window will spring-load, allowing you to drop the image into place.
If you don't, you'll have to re-download the entire thing from the Mac App Store. We had no need of any special drivers during our tests. This should make it appear in the Source box on the right. As an added bonus, if some attendees have scheduling conflicts with your proposed meeting time, iCal will automatically figure out the earliest available time that everyone is free. Similarly, if you tried to open a folder in Stacks, you were sent to the Finder. Right-click or Control+click on the Lion installer to view its contents. Press Option-N during startup Start from a NetBoot Server using default boot image.
Overall, we think that Snow Leopard did almost everything Apple says it set out to do: it refined and enhanced Leopard to make it easier to use. Also, if your Mac is experiencing problems, a bootable installer drive makes a handy emergency disk. But hopefully it will mean more and better-performing software for users in the future. This means that if a plug-in crashes, it won't crash the whole browser. Cons I did notice I had trouble getting garage band to load, it kept saying it could not find a file in the sound library, but after I restarted the computer a couple of times, it has now started to work, who knows, I'm not very good with knowing how computers work, so I can't tell you why this happened, but it did. I would like to image one of the newer Macbook Pros, install all the updates and then create an image that I can use to boot from.
Exchange support One of the main roadblocks for Mac users in a primarily Windows workplace was the inability to connect with Microsoft Exchange servers. The dialog will tell users to move the offending file to the Trash. Summary I cannot even describe how mad I am right now! Apple continues to help visually impaired users in Snow Leopard by adding gesture support on multitouch trackpads with easy-to-learn gestures to perform specific functions. I didn't care about the data so much as none of it was private. Now, when you play a movie and move your mouse outside the window, the interface fades away quickly to give you a more immersive video-viewing experience.