Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Humor, OS, Software, Odds and ends, Apple
Snow Leopard out in September, wallpaper available now
Snow Leopard is going to be uber cheap, so there's not really any reason to not pick it up -- if you make good, regular use of your Mac, odds are that you'll also make enough use of a copy to justify the value. But even if you're not taking the $30 plunge, Macenstein has the most important part of the OS upgrade covered: the wallpaper. Just like the OS itself, Snow Leopard's wallpaper is only an incremental update from the current version (Macenstein says it looks "faster," and we can see what he means), but just in case you want to at least make your old G5's look like they're all upgraded, just "Set as Desktop Background" and there you go.Rumors that the wallpaper will actually make your computer faster (or give you back that 6GB of hard drive space that the actual upgrade will give you) are unfounded, and probably shouldn't be trusted. But then again, you never know.
In all of this morning's hubbub about the new Mac mini, Mac Pro, and iMac, Apple seems to have sneaked in a speed bump to the 
iTunes has an update for the new iPod Classic and the new Nanos, and while the update doesn't have a description at all, 
Some
noise around the blogosphere hints at the fact that even legacy Mac machines are faster since the 10.4.5 update this
week. Users report a variety of speed boost including program loading, dock bouncing, and boot times. I haven't
installed 10.4.5 (because I'm running some funky homebrew software that wouldn't be too happy with an upgrade at this
point).
Finally, Flash on Mac has sped up. 
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