New core technologies in Snow Leopard unleash the power of today’s advanced hardware and prepare Mac OS X for future innovation.

It also includes an enhanced icon view with live file previews, so you can thumb through a multipage document or even watch a QuickTime movie. The familiar Finder interface is unchanged, but you’ll discover that the Finder is faster and more responsive. The Finder has been completely rewritten to take advantage of the new technologies in Snow Leopard.

Now Exposé is integrated into the Dock, giving you a quick and easy way to see all the open windows of an application. Installation is up to 50 per cent faster than with Mac OS X Leopard wake from sleep is as much as two times faster shutdown is up to 80 per cent faster, and initial Time Machine backups to Time Capsule are up to 80 per cent faster than in Leopard.

Mac OS X Snow Leopard includes hundreds of improvements that will help make your Mac faster, more responsive, and more reliable than ever. Product Description of Mac OS X Snow Leopard version 10.6.3 Better, faster, easier.

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