{"id":183,"date":"2009-08-31T15:10:41","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T23:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/31\/backblaze-supports-snow-leopard\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T14:35:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T22:35:22","slug":"backblaze-supports-snow-leopard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/backblaze-supports-snow-leopard\/","title":{"rendered":"Backblaze Supports Snow Leopard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image184\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/blog_post_snow_kitty.jpg\" alt=\"Snow Leopard\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"bzdropcap\">Apple launched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard<\/a> on Friday and not only is it faster and smaller, but also adds a few new features and core services. But for many, the price of just $29 seemed to be the primary reason to upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>So, were these really enough for people to rush out and buy the new OS?<\/p>\n<p>Well, we know that Backblaze customers are early adopters, but considering nearly a quarter of all Backblaze Mac customers have already upgraded to Snow Leopard, it seems Apple&#8217;s customers think the new Snow Leopard is a worthwhile upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>Thinking about upgrading to Snow Leopard?<br \/>\nRead our short Snow Leopard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/snowleopard.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">upgrade page for Backblaze<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple launched OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard on Friday and not only is it faster and smaller, but also adds a few new features and core services. But for many, the price of just $29 seemed to be the primary reason to upgrade. So, were these really enough for people to rush out and buy the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/backblaze-supports-snow-leopard\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Backblaze Supports Snow Leopard<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[131,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-backblaze-bits","category-tech-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Announcing Full Backblaze Support for Mac OS X Snow Leopard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, nofollow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Announcing Full Backblaze Support for Mac OS X Snow Leopard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Apple launched OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard on Friday and not only is it faster and smaller, but also adds a few new features and core services. 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