OSX and OSX snow leopard ?

I own a Mac book Pro and Im hoping to buy a reconditioned IMac from Apple store there are 2 models Im looking at, one comes with OSX and the other comes with OSX Snow Leopard. Are these the same thing or is Snow Leopard the later version so better?
Sorry if this seems a silly question
Regards

If the specs are the same on the two units (or close enough for what you want), I would absolutely pick the one with Snow leopard on it - that way you would get a machine that can boot from both that system as well as the latest - Lion (10.7) - which you should be getting a free upgrade code for. Lion does not support some older applications (no Rosetta), so if you have any of those, you could still run them on your new machine. In fact, you could partition your hard drive so you have Snow Leopard on one and lion on the other - that is what I have. You can boot into either one. Except for one Mac, all my machines have been refurbs.

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