MAC OS X SNOW LEOPARD

Here's the thing about Snow Leopard, the single inescapable fact is that it's $30 to upgrade! $30! As nice as that sounds, if you read the super fine print, it's only applicable if you purchased a Mac in the past year.  Otherwise you will have to pay more, and it could be a headache to install.

If you're a Leopard user you have virtually no reason to skip over 10.6, unless you're worried about your programs not working (in which case, well, have fun with 10.5 for the rest of your life).

You can wait a few weeks for things like Growl and MenuMeters to be updated, and if your life depends on QuickTime you might want to hold off, but for everyone else the sheer amount of little tweaks and added functionality in 10.6 may justify the upgrade.  The Exchange support alone has made the purchase worthwhile for a lot of people in the corporate world.  If you're still on Tiger, you'll have to decide whether or not you want to drop $130 on what's essentially an upgraded Leopard, but if you do decide to spend the cash you'll find that the experience of using a Mac has changed dramatically for the better since you last upgraded.

Interesting bit of trivia:  for a company that says you will be virus free with their Mac OS, there is included a Mac Virus Scanner in the package…so you will be less likely to get a virus on your "Virus Free OS".
Definitely worth the upgrade.

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