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Those crazy MacHeisters are at it again, and this time the deal is even harder to resist.
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Apple Being Coy About Snow Leopard?

1:52 pm, June 23rd, 2008, Lonnie Lazar

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Thus far, Apple has been using very low-key terms to describe the improvements to OS X 10.5 set to hit with the release of “Snow Leopard” next spring. Despite the company’s insistence the software update promises no more than an overall improvement in how Mac OS X works under the hood, Roughly Drafted has uncovered at least ten improvements it deems worthy of a pat on the back for Apple’s code optimizers.

Some of those improvements, while significant, may in fact be transparent or unnoticed by many users. Additions such as SproutCore, the LLVM Compiler, the CUPS printing engine, native exchange support, and self-contained Web apps can rightly be said to reside “under the hood.”

But as Apple Insider details, others, such as a new multi-touch framework, file size reductions, text-processing features, auto activation of fonts, and full ZFS support may prove quite noticeable, indeed.

Posted by Lonnie Lazar in Apple, News, Rumors, Software | Comment on this article

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3 comments

    Just a housekeeping comment about the new design — why bother with “Click to read the rest” on entries when the rest is shorter than the introduction? There’s little more annoying on the web than being forced to navigate away from a page to read another paragraph. How about either saving the jumps for long entries, or using CSS to show and hide the extended parts?

    Gene, on June 23rd, 2008 at 4:55 pm

    @Gene: Good point; this one certainly didn’t need a jump. Thanks for bringing it up.

    Lonnie Lazar, on June 23rd, 2008 at 5:02 pm

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