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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