Here are the significant impacts of the realease of OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard on the community.

1. NO MORE ENTOURAGE!

I think this alone is worth paying the 50 or so for the upgrade to snow leopard. Now Mail 100% supports MS Exchange, all the send/rev from home and school, contact searching, calander sync, etc! Now you can manage your mail from 1 client and save yourself the pain of using entourage's crap interface.

2. Laugh at MS Users

I dont think MS will ever come up with a 50 dollar upgrade of their OS. So while your friends buy/pirate copies of Windows 7 (which is a few mths behind Apple) you can get yours at the cheap price without going thru cracking/keys/headache/disc sharing.

3. Almost no use for VPN

In the past VPN was used at home to search contacts in entourage when you are not in school. (thanks entoruage for not having 100% Exchange compatiblity as well) I hope that snow leopard's mail wouldnt have this problem and we dont need (almost) VPN anymore!

4. Save Disk Space!

Snow Leopard is 6gb smaller than Leopard! that means alot to many people esp those using the older macs *cough* 60 gb hdd.

Well those are more or less my predictions for snow leopard! What will the actual benefits be? I will update in September!!