Today Is Snow Leopard Day

Apple's latest OS -set to compete against Micosoft's Windows 7- is now available for purchase. OSX 10.6 (a.k.a Snow Leopard) costs NZ$59 to upgrade for Macs with an intel processor and comes with the following features:

-Exchange support built into Mail, iCal and Address Book

-Exchange support is free, requires Exchange Server 2007

-Expose built into the Dock

-3D rendering for the Dock

-Recovers 6GB of storage space after installing

-Spell out Chinese characters using trackpad

-Safari faster than any browser on any platform (4.78x than IE8)

-Safari Full History search allows you to Cover Flow though your browser history

-Crash resistance feature

-Quicktime 10 with ColorSync, HTTP streaming and Hardware acceleration

-Edit and convert videos directly from Quicktime to export to various devices (i.e. iPod Touch, iPhone)

-New Magnifier blows up thumbnails within Finder

The Snow Leopard launch is an international event, with the US having to only pay US$29/NZ$42.30 to upgrade their macs.

Source: Digital Kiwi