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Snow Leopard Might Be Something Afterall

Posted by applebits

June 25, 2008 |

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AppleInsider has a great piece out today regarding five undisclosed features of Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).  It is worth reading because it has started to change my mind about the OS upgrade just a little bit.

When I heard about Snow Leopard at WWDC, I was underwhelmed.  To me, it seemed like the lack of new features and the promise of stability was something that should be provided by a 10.5.X rather than a 10.6 have to pay update.

After reading the AppleInsider piece, I am thinking about things differently.  Specifically, I am looking towards the promise of slimmer applications.  I currently use xslimmer to get my applications down in size in order to free up room on my MacBook and MacMini.  Sometimes, as was the case with the recent Microsoft Office Update, xslimmer changed things a bit too much.  I had to reinstall office.

Hard drive space is a premium in my MacMini, and in my MacBook as well.  A sleeker, faster, and thinner OS will add months, if not years, to my hardware.  Spending about $100 bucks on an OS will be much better than spending thousands on new hardware.


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