Upgrading The Cat
August 31st, 2009 by admin
After receiving my Snow Leopard disk from Apple by post on Saturday I quickly set about performing an upgrade.
Having recently carried out a Time Machine backup all I needed to do was to connect an Apple DVD drive to my MacBook Air and start the installation.
The software installed in about 40 minutes.
As the whole point of Snow Leopard is refinement and performance improvement, I took some measurements before and after upgrade.
On my MacBook Air 1.6GHz Rev A (Standard) laptop I saw improvements of up to 80% in some of the more common tasks. Just as important was the disk space I recovered – in my case nearly 4Gb (9%).
Using Snow Leopard I am noticing lots of small improvements and aesthetic changes. One example is when I took a screen-shot of the table below and cropped it in Preview – I saw size details as I selected the area to crop to.
This upgrade is like having a Porsche tuned and upgraded with modern materials.
Highly recommend for all Intel Macs.
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