5 ways Snow Leopard will help you unclutter your Mac

Snow LeopardDuring some down time in the office yesterday, PJ and I started talking about how excited we are about Snow Leopard’s release in September. From where we sit, it seems to be a major improvement to the Mac operating system. At the end of our talk, we concurred that there are:

5 ways Snow Leopard will help you unclutter your Mac

  1. Snow Leopard occupies roughly half as much disk space as Leopard, so upgrading will free up about 6GB on your hard drive.
  2. Because Snow Leopard supports Exchange right out-of-the-box, you won’t need to run Entourage if you need to access a company Exchange server for mail and calendaring.
  3. Snow Leopard integrates Exposé right into the dock, which lets you more easily keep track of and move between open windows in a particular open application.
  4. Stacks are scrollable in Snow Leopard. You can also navigate through folders in a stack to see the files inside them.
  5. Finder has been completely rewritten, and we’re particularly excited about customizable Spotlight search options, which should make finding files even easier.

Are you like us? Are you looking forward to Snow Leopard? We’re definitely interested in seeing if the reality will live up to the hype. Just a month to go …

The upgrade from Leopard is now available for pre-order from Amazon for only $29. Family upgrade packs for 5 users are also available for $49 if you want to save money and have several Macs in your home.

Posted by Erin on Aug 8, 2009 | Comments

11 comments posted

  1. Posted by Griffin - 08/08/2009

    Felt I should clarify #2: The Exchange support only works with Exchange 2007. So until your company upgrades, you’ll still need Entourage.

    (http://www.apple.com/macosx/exchange.html)

  2. Posted by Jacki Hollywood Brown - 08/08/2009

    On my knees bowing to Apple Corp.

  3. Posted by Doug Campbell - 08/08/2009

    There is also a relatively minimal upgrade cost ($9.95 plus tax) if you purchased your computer after June 8. I’m fortunate to have bought a new MacBook Pro at the beginning of July. I’m saving money! ($29-$20+$1,200=profit?)

    http://www.apple.com/macosx/uptodate/

  4. Posted by infmom - 08/08/2009

    I would be looking forward to it if my Mac were not a circa-2002 Powerbook G4 that doesn’t have enough processing power to run anything past Tiger. :)

  5. Posted by David Turnbull - 08/09/2009

    I’m still waiting for the price to be released down under. It’s rarely a direct conversion, although I still expect it’ll cost under $50, and that’s fine by me.

  6. Posted by Peter - 08/10/2009

    I’ll definitely be buying Snow Leopard when it comes out. It’s very smart of Apple to trim down an already great OS to make it run leaner. This is quite the opposite to Microsoft continuously adding bloat and calling it ‘features.’

  7. Posted by kl - 08/10/2009

    @infmom – besides being slow, your PowerBook wouldn’t run Snow Leopard because Snow Leopard only supports Intel processors. That’s where the 6GB of free space listed in #1 comes from, they’ve gotten rid of all the PowerPC binaries.

  8. Posted by Simple Llama - 08/10/2009

    Not sure how they’re going to integrate Expose into the Dock, but I sure can’t wait to find out. Expose is one of my favorite OS X features. I always have too many windows, but Expose makes it easy to find what I want. I know, I know, don’t have to much stuff open. But since I can’t help it, i’ll look forward to an even better Expose :)

  9. Posted by Daily 7: Aug. 10, 2009 » Brickwall Reviews - 08/11/2009

    [...] Unclutterer has a great article outlining how Snow Leopard will free up some space on your Mac as well as freeing up your time.  Now both of those sound like a good thing to me, but for more information hit up the link and head over to Unclutterer. [...]

  10. Posted by Lucky - 08/11/2009

    @kl

    Exactly. I was about to point that. There is almost no extra free space if you compare Leopard and Snow Leopard when you’re using only Intel binaries. I did this comparison of them if anyone is interested: http://twitpic.com/a41t9

  11. Posted by David McDougal - 08/11/2009

    Already pre-ordered the Snow Leopard, iWork 09′ and iLife 09′ bundle family pack. Just put new 500Gb HD in 2007 MBP and upgraded to 4GB of RAM so I am flying with Leopard, and will be VERY happy with Snow

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