Installing Snow Leopard

Hey guys, this is Maids One with our official Snow Leopard installation video. In this video, I'm going to be showing you how to install Snow Leopard and how it seems to work and how fast it actually goes.

So first of all, I went to the Apple Store and bought my official copy of Snow Leopard. It is the family pack, and um, here's what the CD looks like. It has a little jaguar on it; it says Mac OSX Snow Leopard. I know it's a leopard, not a jaguar, of course.

So, you know, installing Snow Leopard is supposed to save some space on your hard drive, so I'm going to take a look at how much free space I have on my hard drive first of all before I install it. So it seems like I have 81 GB free. So that's not that much, but you know, hopefully it'll be 6 GB more.

So it's really easy to install Snow Leopard, and you only have to click a few buttons just to install it, and that's it. So I'll take the DVD right here and I'll put it in my DVD slot. Now I'll shut down and boot into the DVD.

Now, booting a DVD is easy if you have um, rEFIt installed. It's really easy, and if you're just a regular Mac user, which I am, you can turn it on and hold C while booting to load up the Mac OS X CD. So I'm going to hold C, and after a few seconds, we're going to hear the DVD drive start spinning. I'm not sure if you guys can hear that; it's pretty loud. As soon as the Apple symbol comes up, I will release this key. There we go, so I can let go of the key now.

So we'll wait for the setup thingy to come up. Now, in my experience, I installed this on a MacBook as well as this MacBook Pro. It seemed to take 45 minutes to install, something like that. My MacBook Pro, this one, is a lot faster, though, so hopefully, it will go even faster.

So let's wait for it to boot up. It will take a while to boot up because it's booting a DVD. So I'm going to do a cut here while it boots.

Okay, so the Apple sign has vanished, and I assume it's about to boot. There we go, my other monitor's come on, and there's the setup thingy. So I'm going to select my language, it's English, and now click continue.

I'm going to bring my wireless keyboard and mouse back behind the camera so that way I don't have to be in front of the camera for you guys to watch the installation steps. I'll do a cut here while I move the camera a little closer.

Okay, there we go. So I'm just going to click continue. You don't have to really do anything magic in order for this process to work, and it just starts installing right away. This is like the only button you have to click, basically; other than, of course, you have to agree to their license agreement, and you have to select Mac OS X. You have to select your main hard drive.

Now it's installing, and so this process on my MacBook took 45 minutes. Probably take less on this. I'll document the time in the description, and I'll say the time after this. But um, I'll do a cut here while Mac OS X itself is installing, and after, of course, it's done installing, it will automatically reboot my machine, and everything will be nice and dandy.

So anyway, I'm going to do a cut here, so thanks for watching, Mac heads, and on, continue watching.

Okay, so now my laptop is rebooting, and soon we will see the Snow Leopard login screen and everything else. So this was installing Snow Leopard. I hope you learned something. Um, so let's just check real quick how much free space I have now on my computer.

So first, I have to wait for the login screen to come up, and hopefully, it's a little faster. There we go, there's the Snow Leopard wallpaper. I'll log in as Mac Kids in a One. There we go, and see, soon we will see how much free space there is.

So as you can see, it already changed my wallpaper, and by the way, the way it frees up space is by using something called compression, which is archiving stuff. It's basically like zipping a bunch of important system files, and then it unzips it whenever you want to use it.

So that may decrease performance based on your CPU, and that's why I'm not that excited about that. But um, we'll certainly take a look and see how much free space now. It did get rid of a lot of settings, and that's why just backing up before installing Snow Leopard because it deletes certain files.

Some software you may have registered may become unregistered. It's really just a pain. Sorry about that. So I'll eject the DVD; of course, there is going to be sorry a faster disc eject as well. So we can just try ejecting this, and let's see.

Wow, it ejected right there, no more disc. So that is a kind of faster disc eject. So before we had 81 GB free, now let's see how much space we have free. We now have whoa, 99 gigabytes free. Wow, that actually restored 19 GB of space; that's more than it was supposed to! That's amazing.

So um, thanks for watching my kids in one. Thanks for watching this video, subscribe, and goodbye.