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Snow Leopard screenshots surface
Some of the first pictures of "Snow Leopard," Apple's next version of Mac OS X have started leaking off of developer's Macs. Orchard Spy has some of the very first screenshots, though nothing too exciting is shown.
Just as we suspected, Snow Leopard doesn't show any new features in the Applications or Utilities folders; nor does it show any changes in System Preferences. The only change that may lead to speculation is a new "32-bit" phrase in the System Preferences Title Bar.
The build number of Snow Leopard is 10A96.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Jack said 10:51PM on 6-10-2008
The applications and utilities folders do show something new. They show safari 4 preview and boot camp assistant 3 beta.
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d said 8:58AM on 6-11-2008
Of course, they fail to show what is /obviously/ the most important new feature - the default desktop picture.
Jeff said 11:05PM on 6-10-2008
yawn
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Dan Bruno said 11:13PM on 6-10-2008
Well, what did you expect from a release that explicitly eschews new features? :)
mrsteveman1 said 11:12PM on 6-10-2008
Clearly this means they aren't going completely 64-bit, they have NO reason to do that.
However, if anyone has read both the client and server pages on apples site, they do specifically add the word kernel in the following phrases:
client: "To accommodate the enormous amounts of memory being added to advanced hardware, Snow Leopard extends the 64-bit technology in Mac OS X to support breakthrough amounts of RAM"
server: "To accommodate the enormous amounts of memory being added to today’s servers, Snow Leopard Server uses 64-bit kernel technology to support breakthrough amounts of RAM"
Perhaps the server version will in fact be a 64-bit kernel, leopard isn't right now, thats why old drivers still work apparently.
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NAB said 11:18PM on 6-10-2008
It would be interesting to see if the sizes of the Apple applications and utilities are smaller than in Leopard. Apple said they are trying to slim down the code in 10.6.
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chrism238 said 11:33PM on 6-10-2008
But at this stage, most utilities will be loaded up with debugging and performance monitoring code, so their sizes may be greater than v10.5...
Janichsan said 11:28AM on 6-11-2008
They are smaller – almost *half* the size of the 10.5 apps. Automator for 10.5 for instance is 6.1 MB (without any language packs but English), the 10.6 version is given in the shots as being 2.9 MB.
The same goes for basically every other visible app.
Chris said 7:50AM on 6-11-2008
Why are they doing this? And by this I mean releasing a new version of the OS without any significant new features? It kinda pisses me off.
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robogobo said 9:23AM on 6-11-2008
I think the answer is "improving performance" (64bit addressing). Call this a new feature if you want. Remember, new features like spaces and stacks aren't necessarily a good thing.
Chris said 11:09AM on 6-11-2008
Yeah, I prefer new features that help all users, not just the lucky few that have 64 bit processors. I have a 1st gen MacBook Pro so this will do nada for me.
Cycomachead said 11:26PM on 6-10-2008
FAKE!
You can easily change the build number and OS version on you own. There's a System Version.plist in the coreservices folder.
Also the date modified for safari should say today as after updating Safari to 4 preview modified will say today.
And why is the exchange preview for AddressBook 2MB? seems odd considering the Address Book itself is over 40MB.
The whole 32 bit thing. Would apple really brand apps with terms the majority of users have no idea what the mean? And would QT's version be 10? or X?
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ipodrulz said 12:44AM on 6-11-2008
http://www.apple.com/macosx/snowleopard/?sr=hotnews
Sean said 11:32PM on 6-10-2008
There is a pretty huge difference in the size of my QuickTime player on Leopard and in that screenshot (the 10.6 one seems significantly smaller - only 7.8mb).
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Cycomachead said 11:45PM on 6-10-2008
not having upgraded to 7.5, my 7.4 install is 7.4 megs (lol) I used XSlimmer and the info dialog to remove the extra languages.
So nothing unusual...plus chrism238 brings up a good point.
Elliott B. said 11:38PM on 6-10-2008
Looks similar to 10.5, as expected pretty much as it is being tagged as a performance and security upgrade. However, interface always is one of the last things to be thrown into a release, so I guess you never know what could happen!
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sine nomine said 12:13AM on 6-11-2008
So it still has .Mac in System Preferences?
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Michael Ball said 12:29AM on 6-11-2008
Good point. Apple would surely be using Mobile Me for 10.6 even if the service isn't active yet.
Lee said 2:11AM on 6-11-2008
Wasn't it already discovered that references to .mac were changed to variables in such a way that the name could be easily updated across OS X with a simple update whenever Mobile Me launches?
Mike Schramm said 12:31AM on 6-11-2008
I was kind of hoping that it *would* be holographic...
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