Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Family Pack

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Family Pack

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  • 5.0 out of 5 stars

    Snow Leopard - The best version of OS X yet.

    • Written by from FULLERTON

    I have been using Snow Leopard for over a year now, and I am still in love with it. Since I do not own an iOS device, the benefits of iCloud are useless to me, and as such I have not moved to Lion. Snow Leopard is blazing fast on my 2009 MacBook Pro, 2007 MacBook Pro, and 2007 Mac minis; much faster than Leopard, and also keeps to itself. When I upgraded, I found about 4GB of extra space, partially because Snow Leopard wisely only installed the printer drivers that were most common or I had used prior, and because of the old PowerPC code being deleted.
    If you have not upgraded to Snow Leopard, do it! I promise no horror stories, and no complaints. The speed and compatibility with older applications and operating systems make it wonderful for our family.

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  • 1.0 out of 5 stars

    Don't do it

    • Written by from Ogden

    I "upgraded" to Lion, what a disaster. Everything works, but all customized settings, bookmarks etc, are gone. I have spent nearly 2 weeks trying to tweak it back to where it was. I have yet to see one positive thing since upgrading. Phone support is a joke. Save your money and do not upgrade, IMHO.

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  • 5.0 out of 5 stars

    Snow Leopard ist way better than newer OS X releases

    • Written by from München

    Why?

    I includes IWeb! iWeb is a very good web-design tool for those who do not want to dig into HTML.

    Since 2011 iweb is no longer included in iLife. Only Apple knows why or only Steve Jobs knew and didn't tell anyone.

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  • 5.0 out of 5 stars

    Faster and Better

    • Written by from Weaverville

    Enjoyed the many improvements and the beautiful new back grounds. Over all a real bargain for the price.

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  • 2.0 out of 5 stars

    wanted dock access to app store

    • Written by from New Canaan

    a salesperson at an apple store told me this would enable me to use my previously purchased apps on my mac. NOT true. This enables you to purchase new apps for the mac but most of the ones listed are of poor quality and already have unfavorable reviews. I purchased pocket yoga. Although it has a session for beginners like me, the app assumes you already know a lot about terminology and/or positions. I am in great shape but am not a yogi and this app does nothing to orientate me. Moreover, I would rather view a live person than a poorly animated character. I do not feel I am getting much more with this upgrade.

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  • 5.0 out of 5 stars

    Best OS out there ever!

    • Written by from ACCORD

    Snow Leo is the VERY BEST OS available!
    Its very fast, perfectly compatible with all other PCs or devices and I never had a problem with it. My windows machine I need to reinstall 5x a year, my Mac NEVER in 2 years now, and I do the same stuff..

    On windows there are 1000 apps on one thing, on Mac only 2, but those two are very good, and you don't need to download 10 of them like on Win to find one that does what you wanted.

    all people writing about "the wifi is searching to slow"... etc are probably doing something wrong.

    HIGHLY RECOMMEND!

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  • 1.0 out of 5 stars

    VERY SLOW WHEN TRYING TO CONECT TO WIFI

    • Written by from white plains

    SNOW LEOPARD IS REALLY SLOW , I WOULD JUST RATHER STAY WITH 10.5.8 THE AIRPORT IS WAY FASTER THAN SNOW LEOPARD , I HAD TO TAKE ERASE EVERYTHING FROM MY COMPUTER TO RENEW IT!!! RIGHT NOW IM IN 10.5.8 AND I SEE MORE CHANGES.

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  • 4.0 out of 5 stars

    The OS is GOOD BUT

    • Written by from Bronx

    You Guys have to keep working in a Update, everything was so perfect on (10.6.4) I updated to (10.6.5) and this version of the OS is not stable at all, sometimes my MacBook Pro goes frozen, just browsing on the web. I been reading on Apple Support, And the problem seens to be very commun on (10.6.5) so in the 10.6.4 ( "viewHelper" Was takin the WHOLE CPU 194% if CPU USe con Multi-Core Equiment's, turning my MacBook Pro in to a TOAST!!!) GUys Please Less Charisma and more fiability!!! FIX THIS BUG'S!!!!

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  • 5.0 out of 5 stars

    Snow Leopard - The OS

    • Written by from Sarasota

    First off, let me state that I was initially very disappointed that this product was not in fact a family of snow leopards. I know now that Snow Leopards, well any leopard, is an animal and they don't like getting shipped anywhere. I guess I was thinking it would be cool to have some snow leopards at my house in south Florida.

    After my initial disappointment wore off I inserted the Mac OS x 10.6 into my Macbook and the upgrade could not have been easier. The entire operation took about 20 minutes. After the upgrade I gained a little bit of disk space, my Mac runs faster and I feel it was well worth the price. All my add-on programs, like iStats, run perfectly.

    I upgraded my wife's Macbook too and she hardly yelled at me during the upgrade, which is saying something for her as she has the temperament of wasp.

    All in all, I can enthusiastically recommend this upgrade. It's cheap, it's fast, and gosh darn it, it's the right thing to do.

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  • 1.0 out of 5 stars

    If you like to suffer ...

    • Written by from Wildwood

    of a nightmare depending on stability of your Airport network, then buy SL (10.6.4) ! - Otherwise keep running your Leopard (10.5.8) on your system ! - Actually, the issue of SL's instability isn't solved. The system is a 'bug-hole' deep down in 'network diagnostics', 'keychain access', and other software parts programmed 'around' network access. Firewall is also in 'conflict' with some routines of Apple's internal system programming, which finally means night-for-night 'fighting' and 'testing' without coming to a result. - Apple developers, you've dome this better in the past ! - If I would like to maintain an operating system 90% of my productive time, then I would buy a Windows-PC, isn't ?!? - Please try more for network stability and functionality, less for design and 'special effects' ! - That would be nice and more honest ;)

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  • 5.0 out of 5 stars

    Snow Leopard is so cool!

    • Written by from Myrtle Creek

    I installed it on several of my computers now and do find it seems to run faster, operate smother, and offer more user friendly features. Best bang for the buck I've spent in a while.

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  • 5.0 out of 5 stars

    Best OS ever!

    • Written by from APO

    It's been 3 years since I made the switch to Apple. I regret not doing it a lot sooner. Talk about an OS that works for you and not the other way around where you have to tweak, update, (basically you doing all the work for the OS to work). I bought my wife a Macbook and she loves it. My PC sits and collects dust now. I am just saving up to replace my VAIO with that headache of an OS they call Vista. From now on, it is Apple for me. BTW, this OS is just amazing. No other word to describe it! Simple, ease of use, did I mention it simply works. Tiger was great, but Snow Leopard just made what was great in Tiger excellent! Get this if you are still on the fence.

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  • 5.0 out of 5 stars

    Snow Leopard is a Cool Cat

    • Written by from FORT STOCKTON

    Hard to believe that I am the first to write a review of Snow Leopard; almost as hard to believe that it's been 17 years since I bought my first Mac (Classic Pro with TWO megabytes of RAM!).
    Since my entry into the wonderful world of "Everything Apple" I am still a Mac enthusiast and I hold Snow Leopard at center stage. Apple's iPod, iPhone and now the iPad are all wonderful extensions of this awesome operating system. Yes, these mobile Macs will work on PC but loose something when they do; that something is Mac OS-10.6—Snow Leopard.
    Sure thing, I've read to heady critics who can find fault in shape of a circle. They will nitpick Snow Leopard but at the end of the day, this OS remains the best fifty bucks that I have ever spent. Yep, worth every dollar and my only question is, how is Apple going to improve on perfection?

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