Snow Leopard isn't the typical big leap most MacOS X versions have been, and I think it's smart marketing on the part of Apple to name it a variation on the previous version than waste a whole cat on it. Most of the features I don't really understand (Grand Central Dispatch) or care about (Exchange support), but three have really stood out for me:
Offline printing works! I typically have my MBP disconnected when I send something to print, and then plug it in later. This never really worked correctly in Leopard, with the vague "Operation error printer-not-supported-no-one-understands-this-message" popup. A combination of plugging and unplugging the printer and attempting to resume the print job usually did the trick. Now it just works — amazing!
Annotations in Preview Probably the reason 99% of people buy Acrobat Pro is so they can annotate PDFs. Now you can do it in Preview
Faster AirPort connecting I don't know if this is an update to AirPort or my new AirPort Express (hooked into my stereo, great!), but connecting is really fast now after opening my MBP, no more Try Again or waiting.
Overall, just a lot of fixes and polish. Well done.
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