I had recieved my Snow Leopard DVD, a day before what Apple had promised. My Mac fleet includes a 13.3" Macbook aluminium and a 13.3" Macbook Pro. Since the Macbook pro was bought recently, I was eligible for the Apple Up to Date program and I got my upgrade disk for just 9.95$
You can get yours here if you are eligible >> http://www.apple.com/macosx/uptodate/
My Macbook pro has 4 gigs of memory and it took nearly 45 mins for the upgrade to complete. I didn't face any glitch during the upgrade process.
Then came the surprise.. I didn't notice much new visually when I booted into Snow Leopard. My bad.. I remembered what Apple had said.. Refined not re-invented. Let's look at some of the great improvements..
Technology Improvements :
Invented to take full advantage of today's multicore and multiGHZ processors. It helps developers to develop applications that runs efficiently on multicore systems. For a normal user, will experience the speed and performance of new generation applications
Now you can have tons of RAM for your Mac (upto 32 gigs) now with Snow Leopard than just 4 gig before. With 64 bit you can crunch twice the data per clock cycle. All your inbuilt OS X applications are 64 bit. Again a normal user will experience the significant performance in designed for 64-bit applications
Again a developer stuff and now developers can leverage the gigflops of computing power available in new gen graphics cards
Shame on you Microsoft !!
The Chinese character input is cool, an innovative use of the touchpad
As promised, I had gained back few gigs of hard disk space. Some say it's because of new math that Apple is using for Snow Leopard. Overall there are nice improvements, small and big everywhere.
Good reviews :
http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard-review/
http://gizmodo.com/5346418/snow-leopard-review-lightened-and-enlightened?skyline=true&s=x
Snow Leopard Rawrrrrrrrrrrs!!
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