Snow Leopard: Review
All eyes are on the Snow Leopard that goes on sale tomorrow. It requires an Intel-based Mac. Leopard users can upgrade to the new OS X with $29 single-license, or a $49 five-license Family Pack. Those running Mac OS X 10.4 - Tiger, need to purchase the more expensive Box Set, priced at $169 for a single license and $229 for a five-license pack.
Starting from the scratch, as you restart the 10.6 you might notice no considerable changes except a few visual tweaks. Well, there's nothing remarkable, but what lies underneath is Apple's spring of action that involves a somewhat unusual step of curbing down the feature creep in its latest OS putting more focus on speed, reliability and stability. Snow Leopard marks Mac's entry into 64-bit. For the Mac buffs, it implies the apps could address massive amounts of RAM and other tasks would go much faster. Above all, the Mac OS X seems all set to take on the corporate networks with Exchange support in Mail, iCal, and Address Book. Let's have an insight into the scenario.
Starting now, Mac OS X Snow Leopard is available for preorder exclusively at Amazon.com. Current Mac OS 10.5 Leopard users are eligible to upgrade to Snow Leopard at the very low price of $29. We talked about the
One month ago, Apple opened Mac OS X 10.5.8 beta test for developers. If you are one of those keeping a track of Snow Leopard's development, you would be excited to know that this weekend Apple released its latest Snow Leopard beta with new pre-releases of both Mac OS X 10.5.8 Leopard and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Server. The signs of the development were evident with new builds arriving with distinguished area of focus from the former build. These accompanied lower-level technologies and frameworks hogging greater attention than they usually do. This was followed by speculations that the Mac maker would give the Leopard OS a final look once again.
Apple upgraded the iPhone operating system with much ballyhoo in June, announcing some prominent inclusions like search and copy & paste. It time to deliver the claims, and the Cupertino computer seems to delivering the promises. One of the behind-the-scene upgrades that the iPhone OS was supposed to offer was the HTTP video streaming. There is less discussion over the vital feature, as it is yet to show up in the iPhone users' daily experiences. What remains to be understood is that the feature can revolutionize the way we perceive and use mobile video.
Well, I am sick of people eulogizing Apple's Mac OS X as the most impregnable OS that ever existed. They have all been straight over the fact that Mac OS X is virus-free. If any virus ever heard was all but a grapevine sprouting in MacRumors's News Discussion. For all those overconfident nerds, I would have to say not having virus doesn't essentially mean the system is immune to viruses. I'd of course agree to the fact that you find virus for Mac once in a blue Moon. The first ever Mac OS X virus was found in February 2006, and last night SophosLabs revealed a message sent to it claims to be the SRC CoDE of new Macintosh Worm.
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