Category: 635: Snow Leopard Mania, Mac Treat #98, HUGE AppleCare Sale, Garage Sale Announced

Our Governor in Vermont, Jim Douglas announced that he is not seeking re-election, which will really throw open the election for next year. I disagree with Governor Douglas in many public policy issues, but I have tremendous respect for him as a public servant and as an individual. We share a passionate love for our…

This is “special” but not really “a special.” We wanted to let you know that, from today on, Small Dog Electronics is including an OS 10.6 Snow Leopard installation disk with every new-condition Mac we ship. For previous-generation machines, such as the “2.0 GHz unibody MacBooks”:http://www.smalldog.com/product/72290, Snow Leopard won’t be installed on the machine, but…

We wanted to let you know that we have been busy in our warehouses getting ready for our Famous Semi-Annual Garage Sale! At least once a year, we clean out our inventory and offer some crazy deals on the goodies we find. “Click here to read more about the Garage Sale.”:http://www.smalldog.com/garagesale This year we’re going…

AppleCare is one of the most outstanding values that Apple has to offer. While Apple products are among the most reliable in the world, mechanical and electrical things do fail from time to time. Apple only provides a 1-year warranty to help keep prices low but offers AppleCare to increase that hardware warranty to three…

I installed Snow Leopard on my MacBook Pro as soon as possible this morning. Installation took just over 45 minutes. As others have noted, Snow Leopard is sightly (but noticeably) faster and more responsive than Leopard with nice usability touches scattered about. For example, I like having Expose available in the Dock, and I appreciate…

We’ll be posting our own review of Snow Leopard next week after we get to spend some quality hands-on time with it. In the meantime, here are some reviews from around the web: * “Wired.com – 6 Things You Need to Know About Mac OS X Snow Leopard”:http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/08/6-things-snow-leopard/ * “Gizmodo – Snow Leopard Review: Lightened…

Surprise! OS 10.6 Snow Leopard has been released early–today, August 28! Here at Small Dog Electronics we are very excited about Snow Leopard, even though Apple is not heavily promoting its launch with pre-press, etc. Snow Leopard is designed to make day-to-day tasks on your Mac easier, faster and more accessible. It delivers a wide…

Did you know that it’s possible to burn to one CD or DVD multiple times? The trick is to use the “Leave Disk Appendable” option in Disk Utility, located in the Utilities folder on every Mac. First step is to create a folder and fill it with the stuff you want to burn. From there,…

_Dear Friends,_ Snow Leopard mania! We’ve been scrambling to get “Snow Leopard upgrades, Snow Leopard Family Packs, Snow Leopard Mac Box Sets and Snow Leopard Mac Box Set Family Packs”:http://www.smalldog.com/snowleopard into stock for the Friday launch. We have the inventory ready to go, so if you placed a pre-order or made the 3PM ET order…