Review by Jeremy Haggard

I have an older macbook so I can’t take full advatange of this upgrade, but I still bought it. Why you might ask?nnI am always impressed with Apple and when I heard that they had cisco vpn built in along with Microsoft exchange support it was a no brainer for me. I am a Systems Admin and lug my windows laptop to and from work daily because I needed the ability to vpn into the office to support servers after hours. With Snow leopards built in support I can now leave the windows beast at work and use my mac while at home. I did find out that Remote Desktop really isn’t supported in the non server level Snow Leopard, at least not that I could find and to get the Mac version would cost a lot. Microsoft however does have a free download for Mac called Remote Desktop for Mac version 2.1 and it works beautifully with the Cisco VPN and Exchange to really bring my ability to provide support to where I always wanted it to be on my mac!nnLike I said I don’t get full access to all the bells and whistles, but for the reasons I mentioned above it was an easy choice to upgrade. Plus the savings in disk space, speed to start up and shut down and all the other visual enhancements really makes this a winner.

If anyone is aware of an Apple version of RDP that is FREE let me know, I hate to use Microsoft products on my mac but for now that was the only free solution I could find without running a VM and I wasn’t about to fork out the big bucks for the Apple version that includes that.

Way to go apple, another solid product and another terrific enhancement. It’s nice to see a computer company put out software to make their older hardware run FASTER and not put something out like microsoft does where you need to upgrade to make it work. Redmond better get with it, and the price for Snow Leopard is so affordable.

I will say I did purchase my copy through the Apple store directly and had it shipped to my house on the day it was released. I was sad to see that Amazon was going to take a few days to get it to me but I understand that essentially it was Apple that caused that delay. For those of you upset amazon isn’t getting the product to you on release day, please don’t write negative reviews. These reviews are for the product and NOT your discontent with amazon.