Snow Leopard build 10A380 screenshots

Michael Flux has posted some pictures of Snow Leopard build 10A380, and there are some interesting things worth pointing out.

The stack frame now has a attractive border between it and the shadow which looks quite nice. Also, an option for folder actions now appears in the Finder's contextual menu.

There's a cool feature in Safari that lets you create a note from any selected text. I'm also happy to see that the Image Capture app no longer looks completely out of place and matches the other apps. Also, Preview's "Contact Sheet" view is very cool. Think of a PDF's pages being displayed in a big grid.

What's very nice to note, and what I'm most looking forward to, is the list of apps that Michael describes as looking the same but operating much faster, including Address Book and Font Book. I love what Apple's doing with this update in tidying up Leopard and making it tighter, faster and more efficient. I can't wait to buy this.

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Michael Flux has posted some pictures of Snow Leopard build 10A380, and there are some interesting things worth pointing out. The stack...

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Mechno

Bootcamp drivers now include HFS file system support for windows, FYI.

June 14 2009 at 8:30 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Smivey

I think the coolest part is that it's supposed clear up 6 GB of space on my hard drive. Seriously? That much slimmer?

June 13 2009 at 5:06 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Bernard Ramsey

Duncan, I PARTLY disagree . The Snow Leopard performance gains are largely due to the slimming/rewriting of Mac OS X and apps to use a cpu's 64bit processing power. Even a first gen Macbook will see some performance gains under Snow Leopard with its Core Duo CPU (as it contains the 64bit instruction set), and if you look under Leopard you'll see most apps are running 32 bit mode. If your theory is correct and Apple is prepping for a tablet, it's not going to be done with the urrent Atom processors as they will be too underpowered for the task. Perhaps a low-voltage Core2 or a newer chip?

June 12 2009 at 9:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

duncan

Sorry bout that last post guys... damn auto fill (but funny none the less!).

I STRONGLY suspect that what Apple is doing here - particularly with the significant slimming down of the OS X footprint - is prepping for upcoming devices like the rumored apple tablet and/or netbook type devices. Smaller footprint/storage/efficiency for 'lighter' devices (and I don't mean physically lighter per say...).

Don't be surprised (now they've announced that SL will be available in September) to see Jobs come back and announce the tablet (or something similar) to be available on or about the same time as SL ships.

Mark my words...

June 12 2009 at 4:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

duncan

No Barry Manilow fans here? Barry all the way! At the copa- copa-cabana! :)

June 12 2009 at 4:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Tom Craft

I guess the ability to see what is 64-bit is a feature added to Activity Monitor in Snow Leopard. I was wondering, what about the iLife/iWork apps? Are they already fully 64-bit, will we get a point release after Snow Leopard, or will we have to wait until the 2010 version is released?

When does the iLife/iWork suites get updated anyway? Maybe they will release when Snow Leopard does?

June 12 2009 at 3:29 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Tom Craft

Interesting that DVD Player didn't get updated to 54-bit, I wonder why. Seems odd that Keyboard, Mouse and Trackpad all have separate buttons in system preferences. 10.5.7 has Keyboard & Mouse grouped together.

June 12 2009 at 3:16 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Gilbert Palau

Damn! I guess i wont be able to run this in my macpro nehelem... my macpro doesnt support 54bits... Snap!

June 12 2009 at 3:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Matthew

Apple's changing Window management (in my eyes) for the better in Leopard.

You can't get much more fundamental or significant than that.

June 12 2009 at 1:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

markie

"I love what Apple's doing with this update in tidying up Leopard and making it tighter, faster and more efficient. I can't wait to buy this."

Sorry but I just don't agree with that second sentence. Everything I've read about this so far sounds like a service pack. Updates like Tiger and Leopard added significant changes to the user experience and included facilities for new things you could do with your Mac. Even a large number of changes like a new border around the stack frame just don't rate as a new OS in my book.

June 12 2009 at 12:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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It is in many respects a "service pack". Apple have said as much that a big part of Snow Leopard is "refinements". This is why it's $29 instead of $129.

But, the reason it's $29 instead of $0 is that it's not *just* refinements. There's new stuff in there. Some of it targets developers, some of it targets systems administrators, some of it targets users, but it's there all the same, and it's new stuff.

Apple's interpretation of accounting rules means they'll charge *something* for it, and having seen what's in it, $29 is a pretty fair price.

June 12 2009 at 1:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jwgirardot

Slightly OT, but Safari 4 is running significantly faster on my 10.5.7 machine right now. Can't wait to see what Snow Leopard does to it.

June 12 2009 at 12:46 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply