What is snow leopard? I assume it is an operating system

Here

First 2

 

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=511801

 

Google.com for starters .

I guess since I'm typing I'll give a quick recap. It's mainly for more stability, and working with more hardware. (Really allowing faster machines to run OS X). It's all just working in the background. Some small features are added/tweaked but the difference between that and leopard at face value isn't noticeable for a normal user really--from my understanding anyways!

 

Snow Leopard

http://www.apple.com/macosx/snowleopard/

It's limited information, due to the reason Apple doesn't want the boys in Redmond WA to " Start their photocopiers ".