The new release of Snow Leopard, an operating system upgrade for Intel Macs is being touted by Apple and MacWorld as the underpinnings of the future of Macintosh.  The only problem with that is that we're still in the present.  It's far faster to use, on start and shutdown, there are eleven new features, but it is a radical change from the past.  A great many important functions and applications (printers, Norton Antivirus, Internet Cleanup, TechTool Pro 5 and Deluxe, which Apple itself gives all who sign up for AppleCare support and other repair tools) are not compatible.  Many, if not all,...