It will be available coming September for All Intel Macs, past and present (so, as expected, no PowerPC). Let me be the first to say (on OSNews at least): holy cow.
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Owners of Mac OS X Leopard will be able to buy Snow Leopard for just USD 29, with a family pack available at 49 USD. The biggest surprise was yet to come, though. On the business side of things, snow Leopard comes with support for Microsoft Exchange 2007. Apple also claims that JavaScript performance will increase by 50% thanks to 64bit. Also new is OpenCL, which allows developers to tap into the power of the GPU OpenCL is now supported by many, many companies. Very nice.Īnother big thing is of course Grand Central, which will make develping multithreaded applications easier. Apple also states that installation time has been reduced by 45%, and that Snow Leopard takes up 6GB less hard drive space than Leopard. In general, Apple was really into “xx times as fast as” figures today, but we’ll wait when the real benchmarks come out before we list them here. It also has a timeline which you can use to trim and prepare videos and upload them to YouTube, MobileMe, or iTunes.Ĭoinciding with the WWDC keynote is the final release of Safari 4 (all platforms), which offers massive speed improvements over other browsers, Apple claims. Another addition is Quicktime X, which sports the rumoured minimalist interface. You can also drill deeper into the directory structure using stacks, which should make them a more useful feature. Stacks have also been improved in the dock, making them better at handling larger amounts of files. I must say that even though this sounds like a small feature, I’ve often banged my head against my glass desk in frustration over the fact that Expose couldn’t do this before.
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You can also do this while dragging a file onto the dock, and then select the proper window by hovering the file over the desired window.
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The dock and Expose have been refined and combined, meaning that clicking and holding an icon in the dock will show you that application’s open windows in Expose fashion. The company also updated some of its laptops, while also lowering their prices. Most of the work on Snow Leopard has gone into under-the-hood technologies and optimisations, but there are also a number of interface tweaks. At the WWDC today, Apple has lifted the veil on a number of features of its upcoming operating system, Snow Leopard.