What's new in Snow Leopard?

Tour of Apple Snow Leopard operating system: ($29 US)

"Legacy" users often stick with older technology because upgrades break something they really rely on.

The PowerPC chip was made by an alliance that included Apple, IBM, and Motorola.

Rosetta is a program that lets software written for PowerPC run on Intel-based Apple systems.

Some people claim less space savings; others claim as much as 20 gigabytes of freed-up drive space.

Average users may not notice much boost in speed. Power users will notice it more.

Grand Central Dispatch = allows programmers of software to more easily utilize the multiple cores on each processor.

OpenCL = dedicates some of the regular computing tasks to the graphics processor that may not being used at the moment.

Cocoa is one of Apple's programming environments.

Quicktime X = replaces Quicktme 7.

Making the move to the Mac: check out our ten part series at http://www.butterscotch.com/tutorial/Making-The-Move-To-Mac.