Two articles on Snow Leopard features: RoughlyDrafted Magazine writes Ten Big New Features in Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Apple Insider expands on it a little with Five undisclosed features of Apple's Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
I think the size reduction probably mostly due to removing the PPC support that universal binaries provide. But fighting bloat is a very good thing. I also look forward to more data detectors (particularly recognizing contacts in any app) and more multi-touch controls in more applications.
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I think the size reduction probably mostly due to removing the PPC support that universal binaries provide.
Actually, quoting the article:
"The apps in the Utilities folder all drop from 468 MB to 111.6 MB"
Even if you were able to assume that 50% of those apps were pure binary, that would only bring you to about 230MB. So they are clearly shaving off quite a bit of size through methods other than simply ditching the PPC segments.
(p.s. you should allow the <q> and <blockquote> tags in your comments)
Even if you were able to assume that 50% of those apps were pure binary, that would only bring you to about 230MB.
er, 100%, not 50%. :)
I said "mostly" :)
I don't think there's an option for me to set to allow <blockquote> or <q>.
then there's this
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