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By Charlie Sorrel We said that we would have to wait for a final release of Mac OS X 10.6.2 to be sure whether Apple had really killed off support for the Intel Atom processor, and we were right. Stellarolla, the hacker who first reported that a developers seed of the upcoming OS update would break compatibility w...

By Matthew Bookspan If you have limited funds, there is the screen recording capability in QuickTime X, a component of Snow Leopard. If you’ve already upgraded to Snow Leopard, then you have this option available. Otherwise, the Snow Leopard upgrade is $29. Please note that QuickTime X is nowhere in the same le...

By John Herrman You've got yourself a fully-functioning, beautifully small Snow Leopard netbook, which'll do 90% of what a 13-inch MacBook can, at 70% the size and about 25% of the cost. Mine's close to perfect: With an extended battery, I'm pushing 7 hours of battery life with Wi-Fi, which makes my MacBo...

Use this procedure to restore to the factory settings and the software that originally came with your computer by using the DVDs that shipped with it.  Refer to How to 'Erase and Install' on MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, and Mac Pro computers (Late 2008 and later) for Mac OS X v10.5 Leopa...

By Brian Heater The new Macbook packs a 250GB hard drive, a SuperDrive, 2.26GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB of RAM (upgradable to 8GB), and an NVIDIA 9400M integrated graphics. The notebook weighs in at 4.7 pounds. The new notebook meets Energy Star 5.0 and EPEAT Gold requirements. The notebooks ship with Snow Leopard and t...

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By Chris Davies Remember all the Apple stuff from 1983?You’ll only be able to get one iPhone from AT&T, but Apple will let you have twoApple Mac OS X Snow Leopard shipping August 28thThe New Apple .Mac Webmail Ajaxified!Apple’s online store is back open, get an iPhone while you can!

By Vladislav Savov CNET have taken the 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and Snow Leopard for a spin around a 2008 MacBook Pro, and produced a decent first peek at comparative performance. Of course, there are significant provisos to get through first -- it's only one machine, running on Apple's drivers, testing...

By Jesus Diaz CNET has spent some time testing 64-bit Windows 7 and Snow Leopard on a MacBook Pro, currently the only machine that officially supports both of them natively. Snow Leopard wins in all accounts except one: Gaming. In other tests, however, Snow Leopard consistently beats Windows 7 running...

A comparison test today revealed that Mac OS X Snow Leopard is faster than Windows 7 in common tasks. Benchmarks run on a 2.53GHz MacBook Pro by CNET show that Apple's own operating system is about 38.5 percent faster in multitasking with media apps than Microsoft's platform and is also more r...

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When both Mac OS X 10.6 and Windows 7 were tested on a MacBook Pro, Apple's new operating system clearly beat Microsoft in terms of speed, a new test has shown.

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By Josh Carr One of the big differences between Leopard and Snow Leopard is how they report issues with the battery. Leopard didn't report issues in a place where most users would know to check: System Profiler - Power - Health Information. Snow Leopard reports issues directly from your Menu Bar as show...

FirmTek announced Wednesday Snow Leopard support for its FirmTek SeriTek/2SM2-E and FirmTek SeriTek/2SE2-E host adapters. The FirmTek SeriTek/2SM2-E host adapter is an ExpressCard/34 card for MacBook Pros equipped with that feature. FirmTek SeriTek/2SE2-E is a PCI Express card fo...

By Adam Pash Once you've finished there, you're ready to set your BIOS and install Snow Leopard. Step 3: Install Snow Leopard If you've made it this far, the hard part is over. Now it's time to install Snow Leopard, which—unlike what we've done so far—is extremely easy.

By Steven Sande Preview, an app I use constantly to resize screenshots for TUAW, crashes way too frequentlyWithout having changed any preferences, the OWC Mercury Elite Pro 1 TB drive I have attached to my iMac now spins down between Time Machine backups (this actually saves power, so I'm not complaini...

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By Adam Pash The most expensive iMac, by comparison, has only a 3.06GHz Core 2 Duo with 4GB of memory for $2,200 ($1,300 more than my build, but it is built into a monitor), while the cheapest Mac Pro has a single 2.66GHz Quad-Core processor, 3GB of RAM, and a 640GB hard drive—and it costs $2,500 ($1,600 mor...

By Aron Trimble Here's an interesting feature of Snow Leopard that you may or may not (probably not) find particularly useful. Apparently after upgrading to 10.6 several users at the Apple Discussion Forums -- mostly owners of Mac mini or MacBook models with the GMA950 graphics subsystem -- are reportin...

By Steven Sande Up to this point in time, if you wanted to "sign" an electronic document (other than a secure PDF), you either had to scan your signature with a scanner and import the resulting graphic into your document, or purchase a digitizing tablet. Ten One Design, the same folks who brought us the Pogo...

By Adam Pash With great media center applications like Boxee, XBMC, and Plex for OS X, it's more tempting than ever to hook your Mac up to your HDTV. Now that you've upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard, you'll find Snow Leopard's gotten HDTV-friendly. Mac OS X, now HDTV-ready with 10.6 [TUAW]

By Steven Sande After surprising the FedEx delivery person with my HD video camera (yes, there's going to be an unboxing video coming later this weekend), I ripped open the box, pulled out the Snow Leopard box, pulled off the plastic, and then got the disk ready to go. I had done a final Time Machine backup of...

By Adam Pash So you've checked out the good stuff and decided to take the plunge to Snow Leopard. Upgrading is mind-numbingly easy, but in case you wouldn't mind a little hand-holding, here's our quick UltraNewb guide to upgrading from Leopard to Snow Leopard.

By Brian Lam Although it's an Nvidia thing, Snow Leopard will not support H.264 decoding using OpenCL on cards more than a few years old. And Safari 4's ability to segment unstable browser plugins made itself useful when many more flash powered pages crashed in Snow Leopard than Leopard.

By John Biggs You’ll be able to install it on most modern Macs. It requires an Intel processor - no PowerPC support - 1GB of memory and 5GB of disk space. Of you bought a Mac on or after June 8, 2009 it will cost you $9.95. Leopard users will pay $29 while a family pack for five computers will cost $49. Generally any M...

By Sean Fallon • Mac with an Intel Processor For Tiger users with an Intel-based Mac, the Mac Box Set includes Mac OS X Snow Leopard, iLife '09 and iWork '09 and will be available for a suggested price of $169 (US) and a Family Pack is available for a suggested price of $229 (US).

By Gina Trapani Startup and Shutdown Speeds First, Apple promises that Snow Leopard will wake from sleep, join Wi-Fi networks, and shutdown faster than plain old Leopard. While it's difficult to accurately test wakeups and network connections, I timed startup and shutdown on my MacBook Pro in both Leo...

By Chris Rawson MacBook Air (all models) Early 2008 MacBook Pro Late 2008 17" MacBook Pro Unibody MacBook (all models) Unibody MacBook Pro (all models) If you have a MacBook Pro manufactured before early 2008 or any plastic MacBook, then Snow Leopard or not, multi-touch isn't coming your way...

By Trent Wolbe 00:05:20 - Apple shows iPhone OS 3.0 at WWDC, hits devices June 17th 00:05:30 - Find My iPhone is live, totally found our iPhone 00:06:00 - iPhone 3G S processor specs: 600MHz CPU, 256MB of RAM 01:01:47 - Apple shipping Snow Leopard in September, $29 upgrade