Learn 5 New Features of your Operating System - Activity Three

Mac OS X Snow Leopard has been refined! Here are FIVE ways in which Snow Leopard has been improved:

1. A more advanced, more nimble Finder. The Finder has been rewritten to take advantage 64-bit support and Grand Central Dispatch. More responsive with quicker performance throughout. INcludes new features such as customizable Spotlight search options and an enhanced icon view that allows perusal through a multipage document or watch a QuickTime movie.

2. Quicker Time Machine Backup. Time Machine makes backing up the hard drive easy. Time Machine is now 80% faster and reduces the time it takes to complete your initial backup to Time Capsule.

3. Faster to wake up and shut down. Mac wakes from sleep up to twice as quickly when screen locking is enabled. Shutting down is also up to 80% faster.

4. Innovative Chinese Character Input. Write Chinese characters directly on the Multi-Touch trackpad. They'll appear on the screen in a new input window, then recommends characters based on what was drawn, allowing the writer to choose the right one. Input window offers suggestions for subsequent characters based on what was chosen as well.

5. More-reliable, higher-resolution iChat. Morereliable and accessible than ever. Includes technology to address many common router incompatibilities that can interfere with connections. No direct connection? iChat will use the AIM relay server to create a successful chat session.