Apple Mac OS X Version 10.6

Aug 24, 2009 2:00 PM

           
 

Mac OS X Version 10.6 Snow Leopard will go on sale Friday, August 28, 2009, at Apple's retail stores and Apple authorized resellers, and that Apple's online store is now accepting pre-orders. Snow Leopard features hundreds of refinements, new core technologies and out-of-the-box support for Microsoft Exchange. Snow Leopard will be available as an upgrade for Mac OS X Leopard users for $29.

Features include a more responsive Finder; Mail that loads messages up to twice as fast; Time Machine with an up to 80-percent faster initial backup; a Dock with Expose integration; QuickTime X with a redesigned player that allows users to view, record, trim and share video; and a 64-bit version of Safari 4 that is up to 50-percent faster and resistant to crashes caused by plug-ins. Snow Leopard is half the size of the previous version and frees up to 7 GB of drive space once installed.

System applications including Finder, Mail, iCal, iChat and Safari are 64-bit and Snow Leopard's support for 64-bit processors makes use of large amounts of RAM, increases performance and improves security while remaining compatible with 32-bit applications. Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) provides a new way for software developers to write applications that take advantage of multicore processors. OpenCL, a C-based open standard, allows developers to tap the power of the graphics processing unit for tasks that go beyond graphics.

Find out more information and full system requirements for Snow Leopard Server.