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what's up everyone jon rettinger from TechnoBuffalo here for a while leopards been my favorite cat but there's a new feline in town Snow Leopard today Apple announced that this Friday August twenty-eighth snow leopard will become available for all the eager mac owners and perspective and potential owners so you can pick up your copy of snow leopard either in an apple store or an authorized retailer or pre-order online for 29 bucks for an upgrade which really is a pretty sick deal of considering well what other companies cost for OS upgrades so this is quite nice so what are you going to get with snow leopard if you decide to upgrade here are some of the highlights and a refresher on some of the things you're going to get so you're going to get a more advanced and more nimble looking finder you're going to get a new look and new features in expose and statics you're going to get much quicker time machine backups which hooray for that time machine takes freaking forever so it'll be nice to speed that up say it can be up to eighty percent faster so yeah eighty percent faster you're gonna get faster wake up and shut down Times awesome you're going to get faster more reliable installation are they saying it wasn't reliable before I don't know you're also going to get back seven gigs of free space that you're taking up with current leopard so it's got a much smaller footprint getting all of that for 29 bucks you're also going to get into more quicktime stuff you're going to get a new innovative chinese character input if you're not chinese or live in china yay more reliable higher resolution i chat sweet you're going to get automatic time zone set up automatic updates for printer drivers easy PDF text selection faster more improve Safari more reliable disc ejects and more efficient file-sharing just is you're getting to some more reliable stable operating system a ton of accouterments nothing drastic that you got from the upgrade from tiger to leopard but you're just getting it more reliable sort of more well-rounded OS it's also going to be 64 bits so your system will be able to recognize more RAM which is always nice if you use Ram intensive programs or processes 29 bucks again seems pretty good are you guys can go run out and get snow leopard on Friday you're going to wait to see what people say are you going to pre-order it from apple com which they have free shipping by the way or are you going to go to the store and get it you have no interest one thing I should mention though that snow leopard is only going to work with intel based mac so if you got an old Power PC Mac laying around enjoy Tiger order a leper if you have on it that's as high up in the OS food chain as you're going to go maybe this is enough to even push you over the edge if you're looking to maybe get a new computer now before snow leopard comes out you can upgrade the OS for just ten bucks it's not a bad deal or you can just wait a couple weeks until it comes pre-installed on the computer and I guys just kind of wanted to know what you think about so uh pretty excited about it not excited about it you give a flying crap personally I'm excited I'm looking for a more stable operating system i'm looking for a more robust operating system i'm also really looking forward to getting back seven gigs of disk space all the videos I might takes up a lot of space so it's mostly sort out external hard drives it'll be nice to have some space freed up and for those time machine backups yes for that anyway I will see you guys in the next video for exclusive content check me out of twitter twitter.com / John for lakers learn more about technobuffalo TechnoBuffalo calm mmm bye for now boom