appleinsider.com — Apple is billing Snow Leopard as an OS without any new features, but this couldn't be further from the truth. Under the hood improvements offer users much to look forward to, including the benefits of a new multi-touch framework, dramatic file size reductions, text-processing features, auto activation of fonts, and full read and write ZFS support.
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jhaksJun 24, 2008
Yes! And join the more homogeneous herd! Good for you!
allyantJun 24, 2008
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Closed AccountJun 24, 2008
My thoughts on the 5 new features:1. Good idea with the multi-touch framework, Microsoft has also touted this as being in the upcoming Windows 7.2. Slimmer applications are happening because they're shedding the code that was mainly put in for PPC since this will be an exclusive release for X86. You won't have a copy of the program for PPC anymore.3. Nice to see an Apple article acknowledging a feature that Microsoft came up with that Apple is now implementing. Looks like Microsoft isn't the only company that copies other companies features.4. This is something that was bound to happen since Apple put the basics of it in Leopard and now can expand it further.5. Glad to see this is coming in. Let's hope other OS's like linux distro's like Ubuntu and Windows can implement this as well. It sure does sound better then anything we got right now.
dacjamesJun 24, 2008
There were also a lot of "under-the-hood" improvements, namely Objective-C 2.0, the new Core* libraries and the first steps toward resolution independence. These improvements may not be a significant value add currently but they'll hopefully lead to better Mac applications down the road.Snow Leopard is actually really exciting for me because it seems to non-Apple to spend an entire release focused on performance and optimization.
alliekins619Jun 24, 2008
Ever heard of Service Packs? They're free and... let's just let microsoft.com take it from here. "[Vista] SP1 doesn't add features or require you to learn anything new—it simply makes your PC more reliable, run more smoothly, and even more enjoyable to use, all at no charge."
carlososJun 24, 2008
Doesn't that just sound like a bug fixes and minor tweaks and not really service packs like?The snow leopard version sound like a real service pack in comparison and apple would really screw over its customers if they would have to pay for that. Not even Microsoft charges for service packs (and I'm sure that they thought about it before ^_^ )
gothaliceJun 29, 2008
tian2992, you continue to amaze me. I said: "… Snow Leopard's installer will prune them itself…", not "prune them yourself, you idiot".
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Closed AccountFeb 11, 2009
It's not about pride, it's about legal issues too.If you want a unified FS across the board, why don't you ask microsoft and apple to use ext4, or some of the other FREE filesystems linux have to offer (actually I don't know what the licences are on these, but if they were GPL'd they coud still use whatever freebsd uses).I know ZFS is the bees' knees right now, and don't get me wrong, we linux users would LOVE to get our hands on it, but it's just not possible. A piece of software that isn't under the comnnunity's control is a piece of software that can't be relied on for long-term support. That's what BtrFS is being develped for, anyways... and until that gets ready, ext4 will work just fine for linux.
whoisjohnlaiAug 24, 2009
The Features in Mac OS X Snow leopard will revolutionize Mac Period, its gonna be awesomeRead my blog, with my thoughts on the snow leopard<a class="user" href="http://whoisjohnlai.com/blog/?p=96" rel="nofollow">http://whoisjohnlai.com/blog/?p=96</a>John