Naming Leopard's successor Snow Leopard implies that optimization and refinement, not reinvention, has taken place. That's exactly what happened. The OS was n

Naming Leopard's successor Snow Leopard implies that optimization and refinement, not reinvention, has taken place. That's exactly what happened. The OS was not "stripped-down" as much as improved; there are plenty of enhancements under the hood, one of which is better facility for network installation of OS components (hence the smaller footprint). So I consider Snow Leopard a good name. A pedantic tech writer who fancies himself a feline biologist might disagree. This is a terrible blog post.