OS X Snow Leopard

9:09 Jun 9th, 2009 | 0 notes

Put simply, Snow Leopard is a fine tuned version of Leopard, the current version of the Mac operating system. Apple have clearly acknowledged this fact with one big statement: Leopard owners can get Snow Leopard for $29 flat. No paying $99 or $299 (like Windows), just that one flat number. $29!

Because Apple haven’t added anything imediately visable to the average user. What they’ve done is throw in a whole ton of brand new developer tools that will result in the fastest OS on the market. With the introduction of 64-bit technologies system wide, programs will run faster and more efficiently than they currently. Grand Central Dispatch and Open CL add to this by giving developers tools to take advantage of ever last drop of performance from a machine. Moving forward, this is a big step that will see the fastest applications ever.

With tweaks to Exposé, Finder, the dock, Stacks and tons of other basic OS X applications along with faster startups, shut downs and a brand new QuickTime player, I’m still quite surprised that it’s all only $29.

Besides, who doesn’t like seeing “2.8x faster”, “45% faster” and “50% faster” badges pasted all over a website right?