One neat trick of the installer is that if for some reason the upgrade process is interrupted – say, your laptop battery dying – it will simply carry on where it left off with no data loss. Vista and Windows 7 may also offer upgrade installs from their previous versions, but Apple outright encourages it. The installation is “up to 50 per cent” faster than Leopard this time around, says Apple, and I certainly couldn’t call it slow.

If you’re the frugal type, however, and are sitting on the fence then you’ll probably want somereassurance first.įrom the word go Apple shows it hasn’t been resting on it’s Leopard-scented laurels. That amount is certainly well within my impulse-buy threshold, and I surely can’t be alone. It’s worth considering, though, that with its £25 upgrade price, it’s unlikely that many Leopard users are going to be in much debate as to whether to go for this new, fluffier version. Misleading because while a living, breathing snow leopard is superficially distinct, but fundamentally little different to a leopard, OS X 10.6 is pretty much the exact opposite little has changed on the surface, but underneath we’re dealing with an entirely new creature. Appropriately, because it is, as the moniker betrays, more an upgrade to the previous incarnation of OS X than a radical overhaul. Snow Leopard is at the same time quite appropriately, and entirely misleadingly named.

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