Review by carol irvin

Update to below review: I did promise to come back if I found any problems with this product. Some users have experienced reduced battery power (drains faster) after installing it. I have experienced that but my husband did not. We are both on macbooks. My macbook is a year old and his is three years old. I ended up taking my machine into the genius bar. Apple said iM was not snow leopard. It said my battery was shot so it gave me a new battery, no charge. my machine has worked like a champ ever since and I still have snow leopard.

This is my original review before the above came to light. The product remains five stars for me personally.

I am just discovering all the refinements which have gone into Snow Leopard. However, what I want to comment on is the most important aspect to me. I came to my Macbook from years of working on PCs. One good thing PCs did for me was that I became quite a proficient little techie but that was because I was forced to do so. I lost count of the amount of times I had to reinstall my operating system due to an overall system crash, an Internet Explorer flaw which crashed the whole OS, viruses or trojans or other problems which got past my virus protection software, etc., etc., When I went over to Mac, I was able to retire from being a self taught techie. I have to do just about zilch on my macbook in order to keep it running well. I have now used Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard. Each one is an improvement over the last. There is no bloating factor. I don’t have a bunch of extra software on here which I don’t need. In fact, I picked up about 18 GB of space by switching to Snow Leopard from Leopard. Snow Leopard is working perfectly for me ²⁴⁄₇ and I have not really had to think about adapting to it. It is so intuitive that I just find myself doing so automatically.

I always liked the finder and I like it even better now in Snow Leopard. I’ve been doing great searches within my folders, getting wonderfully sized images as my thumbnails plus Quick Look is better than ever. As I set all of my preferences for the whole OS, I discovered that certain things, which were more complicated to do in Leopard, are now simpler to do. Some specs were removed entirely and macbook just does them quietly on its own in the background, which is fine by me. I do not miss the hours I spent reading computer manuals as I tried to cope with being a PC user.

After the installation, everything still worked just fine. I was able to just pick off where I had left off without missing a beat. I have a David Pogue missing manual book sitting next to me but have yet to open it as I’ve run into no problems.

Best of all, it was really cheap to buy. I’ve never had such a cheap OS yet it is so slick!!!!nnIt is hard for me to imagine why you would not want Snow Leopard on your Mac. If I run into such a reason, I will come back and edit this review to include it!