Tuesday, June 24, 2008

New Features in Mac OS X Snow Leopard

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.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

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)

Anonymous said...

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%. :)

Howard said...

I said "mostly" :)

I don't think there's an option for me to set to allow <blockquote> or <q>.

Howard said...

then there's this