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I kind of feel like I've missed out on the Snow Leopard upgrade since it was my first ever macOS. I had nothing to compare to. It just felt much better than Win

I kind of feel like I've missed out on the Snow Leopard upgrade since it was my first ever macOS. I had nothing to compare to. It just felt much better than Windows, but I don't know how much better than Leopard it was.

tempoponet 3y ago
It was kind of the sunset for PowerPC, so for many it was the end of an era, and most likely what any preserved Powerbooks are running. I have a 12 inch Powerbook G4 on my bookshelf with Snow Leopard. edit: I must have misremembered as I've been corrected below. Leopard was the last PowerPC version.
- SpecialistK 3y ago
  That would be 10.5 Leopard. 10.6 Snow Leopard dropped PPC entirely. 10.4 Tiger - Classic (on PPC) and x86 10.5 Leopard - no Classic, PPC and x86 10.6 SL - x86 only There are some early developer previews of 10.6 on PPC that have leaked and are being played with, but 10.5.8 is the last PPC release.
- Apocryphon 3y ago
  I have a Mac Mini running Snow Leopard as well that I boot up maybe once a year. Should use it a little bit more often just so the user agent surprises whomever is tracking my browser activity.
Sunspark 3y ago
It was faster than Leopard but still Leopard. As an end-user who ran Tiger and Leopard back in the day (and System 6 and 7 before that), I didn't feel that either were bad or slow. Both were good releases that I was happy to use. Leopard was actually my last personal Mac OS because the MacBook logic board suddenly gave up the ghost while plugging in a cable. I also have a dead MacBook Pro that a former coworker gave me that has a dead logic board (due to the video chip). It's a shame because I really liked my white MacBook. It was a nice machine.