Snow Leopard OS 10.6

This September, Apple will strive to create an even more perfect OS as it releases its newest update for Leopard. Here are some of the many updates it will include:

• A faster finder
• 64-bit support
• Grand Central Dispatch
• Icon refresh rate has been greatly increased
• Expose updates – now a dock option
• Stacks with more features including scrolling and navigating between folders
• A faster time machine backup (50% faster)
• Wakes up twice as fast, shuts down 1.75 times as fast, and finds the network 1.5 faster.
• Installs updates 45% faster
• Uses up 6gb less space
• A new quicker, cleaner, and more useful Quicktime X
• Chinese Character input – allows you to draw characters directly on the trackpad
• A more reliable and higher resolution iChat
• More streamlined and intelligent services – a better command click
• Automatic time zone sync
• Easy PDF text selection
• The fastest browser alive – Safari 4 (runs faster on a mac than even Google Chrome)
• A more reliable disc eject
• More efficient file sharing – can sync while computer is sleeping
• Restore deleted item from the Trash
• You can now watch movies in the finder icon view
• Assign Spaces
• HFS+ support for Bootcamp – this allows you to access your Mac files over windows in a read-only format (so you get the files, but not the viruses)
• Date in the menu bar
• The new American Writer’s Thesaurus 2.0
• Safari is more crash resistant. If a plug-in crashes the browser stays active and you merely have to reload the page.
• Record your screen easily in Quicktime X
• OpenCL support – an awesome graphics update
• Xcode has been updated as well – used for the iPhone development platform

So, as you can see, Apple will make some updates intended to refine, not reinvent their already unbelievable OS. The update will cost $29.00 for the majority of users and will only cost $9.95 to those who purchased a mac right before the release.

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