Review: Snow Leopard vs. Windows 7
updated 08:50 pm EDT, Fri August 28, 2009
Snow Leopard Review
Critics have often accused Apple of charging for service packs to Mac OS X where Microsoft has released interim updates for free. While it's true Apple has often tended to release OS releases frequently -- in some cases within a year or less -- these have often been major architectural and interface changes where Microsoft's focus on maintenance. With Snow Leopard, however, Apple itself has signaled that it's content with a more modest upgrade. The question then is whether a less superficially ambitious update is worth paying $29, especially when Microsoft at least initially appears to have a more aggressive (if more expensive) update in Windows 7. In a special cross-site Snow Leopard review, we aim to answer that question both for Mac users alone as well as in the context of Microsoft's new platform.
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Joined: Nov 2008
I think the Snow Leopard
update is definitely worth $30, service pack or not. It runs very well and only broke a few of my apps. Nothing major. It broke Unison 1.7.9 on my computer and Frostwire, the latest version, kept quitting. Snow Leopard is light, fast and seems stable. It doesn't use much in the way of resources. Maybe about the same as Tiger 10.4. I think most of the important things are buried and only to be unleashed with new applications. Better a $30 Service Pack than a $150 Vista/Windows7 Service Pack.