What’s new in OS X 10.6 10A402: Lots of speed
See also: Rumor: Apple to pass on Intel’s Calpella platform
Although Apple has publicly announced that its next generation OS won’t ship until September, still nearly two months off, development appears to be rapidly grinding to a close. Yesterday’s OS X 10.6 developer seed arrived with spit and polish improvements, the kind one would expect to see in a release candidate or gold master.
Although fleshy details and benchmarks haven’t yet appeared, reports on 9 to 5 Mac and MacRumors Forums echo each other in what’s new Snow Leopard 10A402:
• Much faster performance all around
— Five second shutdown (that’ll be nice)
— Safari is much snappier• Battery meter now reports 30 percent longer life (untested)
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• Exposé on multiple monitors is fixed
— List view in the Dock• Third party System Preference panes now work
• New build [42] of Quicktime 10.0
Also, how do we know this is a major update? Well, it’s said by those in the know that Snow Leopard 10A402 weighs an impressive 1.3GB.
Lastly, as I and others have previously noted, the Expose and Dock improvements in Snow Leopard certainly bring a “touch” feel (groan) to the new OS that many think indicates the imminent arrival of the long-fabled Mac touch (aka iPod touch on steroids)…
What’s your take?
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“it’s next generation OS” should be:
“its next generation OS”.
I’m would gladly pay for the leaner and faster OSX. If it can run as snappy and fast as my optimized XP box then I’m happy. All the other features are just icing for me.
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