O'Reilly has released its Snow Leopard guide

Apple’s Snow Leopard OS has been out for community use about six weeks. The drumbeat of praise and promises about it runs high by now. You may be wondering if it’s time to spend $29 and upgrade to get new features and some speed increase.

It depends. Support for your programs is the most important factor to consider when you upgrade, so long as the OS isn’t buggy. Small businesses might have to wait awhile, though, since a key accounting package is dragging a club foot to get ready for Snow Leopard.

Despite the fact that a Missing Manual Book, as well as three Taking Care Of e-books for Snow Leopard are on the market, QuickBooks for Mac 2009 cannot make the leap on the Leopard’s back. Users were never fond of QB Mac 2009, but they use it, mostly because their accountants are often running the program on Windows. QB’s vendor Intuit knows how to take care of QuickBooks Windows users. (That’s the version you see in the Office Depot aisles.) Mac users, not so much. Read the rest of this entry »