(warning: MacBook Pro newbie) Hi, 1) do the new (2011) MacBook Pro 17" come with Snow Leopard (10.6) or just Leopard? 2) how much initial RAM is being used by the Snow Leopard? What are tips/tricks to not load unimportant applications at startup? TIA! Rob (I used to develop software on Macintosh back in the MacOS 4, 5, 6, 7 days but, sadly, fell out for a while)
Largely irrelevant, just grab 8GB of RAM and don't worry about it. Almost nothing unimportant will be loaded on a fresh set up.