What are some advantages of Snow Leopard over Tiger?
Is it worth my time to upgrade from Tiger to Snow Leopard? I use my computer primarily for word processing and movie editing.
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
Snow Leopard > Leopard > Tiger.
Leopard added a new and improved version of Automator, Back to my Mac (login to home Mac from elsewhere), Boot Camp (dual boot other OSs), a new Finder (faster, more robust, coverflow view, quick view, etc.). iCal (with Google Calendar support), improved iChat, improved Mail, better control of permissions on SMB and AFP shares, improved parental controls, improved Preview, Spaces (virtual desktops), improved Spotlight (adds expressions), Time Machine (back-up revisions), various UI opdates. Improved 64-bit suppose, ObjC 2 runtime (garbage collections), Core Animation, updated OpenGL for 3D graphcis, updated UDF permits reading Blu-Ray disks, Java 5, various security enhancements.
Snow Leopard moved everything to 64-bit, added HFS+ drivers for Windows on BootCamp, complete rewrite of Finder, MS Exchange support for Mail and iCal, multitouch pointer support, Safari 4 with many new features, context menus for Dock icons, Dock stacks, UI gamma adjustment, faster sleep/wake, lower disk space and memory requirements, no longer requires 3rd party printer & scanner drivers, added Grand Central Dispatch (process scheduling / parallelization) and OpenCL (GPU processing).
What do you lose? Support for Classic apps and AppleTalk.
