Apple’s Snow Leopard Officially Released

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief September 1, 2009 · 1 min read

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Today, we got to see and try Mac OS X 10.6 . Apple representatives from Singapore today showcased their new operating system, codenamed Snow Leopard.

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Snow Leopard comes as 32-bit and 64-bit out of the box and system applications such as Finder, Mail, iCal and Safari are also on 64-bit.
Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) provides new ways for to create applications that’s optimized for multiple core processors.
Introduction of the OpenCL (somewhat derived from OpenGL) to maximize the power of the GPU.

Apple is finally ditching the PowerPC so Snow Leopard can only be installed on an Intel-based Mac system. Almost half of the Apple presentation was dedicated to bashing Windows 7.

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Existing Leopard users will only need to pay a Php1,690 license fee to upgrade to Snow Leopard. A Family Pack costs Php2,790 (up to 5 users) and a Mac Box Set that includes iLife and iWork will have a suggested retail price of Php9,490.

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TechPinas · 17 years ago

Hi Abe!

It was nice meeting you during the Snow Leopard event. :)

Mark
TechPinas.com

juntariman · 17 years ago

PC World reports that the Snow Leopard install disc will quietly downgrade your browser’s Adobe Flash Player plug-in (which lets you view embedded Flash videos on the Web) from the latest versionâ€”10.0.32.18â€”to an earlier version, 10.0.23.1, that lacks recent patches for a variety of security vulnerabilities.
Here’s the link to the story… http://www.pcworld.com/article/171367/

DJ · 17 years ago

@Israel Nicolas

I don’t think that one fact automatically makes the whole OS inferior. First-time buyers, for instance, wouldn’t really care much about backwards hardware compatibility.

@papapao

Reminds me of my OS of choice: Linux. Hehe. Intel’s Linux distro designed for netbooks can already boot within 8 seconds.

DJ · 17 years ago

Sir Abe, correction lang po. OpenCL and OpenGL have little in common, actually. Well, they were both made by the same standards group (and that also explains the similarity of the names), but they have entirely different purposes and implementations. OpenGL is something used by programmers to be able to make computer graphics, and OpenCL is like a programming language designed to take advantage not just of multi-core processors, but also of the tremendous amount of computing power ‘locked’ and unused in graphics processors (read:video cards).

As far as I’ve heard, OS X 10.6 is all about under-the-hood changes. Sort of like a developer-oriented OS, a springboard for the next Leopard (I mean, a more feature-oriented OS X release).

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief · 17 years ago

Hi DJ, it was how the presenter interpreted it. Thanks for the correction.

Joshua · 17 years ago

Haha.. ha.. If i start to earn now i could get a mac.. :(

August · 17 years ago

@Mish

trying hard to be funny eh? SO WHAT if he is not steve jobs? do you only watch apple presentations when steve jobs is on? horrible shirt? that also matters to you? i wonder what college you went on. or if you even received a bachelors degree because you didn’t like your professor’s shirt.

The Teknisyan · 17 years ago

Apple PH has a promo that if you pre-order your uprade of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard you’ll get it for only Php 1,690.00 and if you have 5 Macs, you can avail of the Family pack for 5 licenses for only Php 2,790.00.

http://teknisyan.blogspot.com/2009/08/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard-now-shipping.html

mish · 17 years ago

That presentor sure is no Steve Jobs… ok I can’t end it here – and what a horrible horrible shirt =)

papapao · 17 years ago

ang laban na kasi ngayon e pabilisan, tapos na ang labanan sa papogian ng features. which is a good thing, no more bloatware, only apps that you need and perform well when you need it.

sunod dyan ang paunahan sa claim na makapagboot ng OS in <= 1 sec.

yan ang productivity

Vance · 17 years ago

Snow Leopard has nothing new on the plate, it is the same Leopard OS but they fixed a lot bugs and tweak the OS to make the programs run faster.

Israel Nicolas · 17 years ago

The fact that Windows 7 can run on a seven-year old computer makes it better than Snow Leopard which just alienated Power PC owners who bought their systems barely three years ago…

Calvin · 17 years ago

haha when that guy talked about the cost of an upgrade to snow leopard as opposed to windows 7, he didn’t mention the cost it takes to build a PC against buying a Mac.

pero i agree with him about Snow Leopard only comes in 1 flavor whereas Windows 7 have 6.

Jill · 17 years ago

The icons on the presentation screen looked interesting. They’ll be good additions to the guy’s shirt.

Jill · 17 years ago

@eizan: Apple in its element. “Don’t buy their detergent, buy ours” would be more like it. Seemed heightened snobbery just doesn’t make it for them.

mac_kiddo · 17 years ago

Hi Yuga! It was reported that even Tiger-running macs can install the $29 upgrade. Apple just wanted them to pay for the “$129” (im not sure of the exact amount) fee for the Leopard OS. So for Intel-based macs still running on Tiger, go and just grab the $29 upgrade.

Jhay · 17 years ago

Things will really heat up once the final version of Windows 7 goes public. Then the reviews and comparisons would be a great read once more.

BrianB · 17 years ago

It’s not the software at this point (the point where a good Windows OS is coming out) but the hardware options that a Windows OS makes possible. Asus makes really cheap, reliable and thin laptops. That could be my choice next time I buy a notebook.