I've put both operating systems through their paces, selected categories for a head-to-head competition, and then chosen a winner in each category It’s the best of times if you’re a lover of operating ...

Got an old Mac or two laying around that you want to use with the modern World Wide Web? If that Mac is running Snow Leopard, ...

Apple operates under the philosophy that the latest and greatest OS is what everybody should use, but many of us prefer to try things out first and upgrade a bit more slowly. When you dual-boot your ...

Apple will ship its new Mac OS X version, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, on Friday, Aug. 28, the company’s Web site confirmed today. Speculation has run rampant in the last week about the Aug. 28 date, ...

While the world focused on Microsoft's launch of Windows 7, Florida-based Psystar quietly launched Rebel EFI, a software product that should worry Apple a lot more than Microsoft's latest operating ...

Yesterday's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco was all about the 3G iPhone, but that doesn't mean Apple wasn't willing to offer a bit of OS X-centric news as well. Following Steve Jobs' ...

Snow Leopard, officially OS X 10.6, hit retail shelves Aug. 28 and the operating system has racked up more than twice the sales of Leopard's initial release and almost four times the sales of Tiger, ...

SAN FRANCISCO — It merited only an aside in Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ keynote here at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). The real information about the next version of Mac OS X, if any, was ...

The Mac OS X 10.6.2 update deals with several issues that have cropped up in Snow Leopard since its launch in August, including one that was causing users to be logged out unexpectedly; one that ...

AppleInsider’s sources tell them that Snow Leopard, previously thought to only get under the hood upgrades, will get a new UI codenamed “Marble”. https ...

OS X‘s secure delete, which overwrites data multiple times so snoops can’t recover them even if they have access to your hard drive, turns out to not work with SSDs. The problem? SSD write algorithms ...