Apple announced that customers who have purchased qualifying Mac with OS X Leopard installed may upgrade it with Mac OS X Snow Leopard Up-to-Date program which is to be released in September for a shipping and handling fee of $9.95 plus tax. There are provided full details for customers that want to upgrade; for instance customers who have several qualifying Macs on a single invoice are able to buy an upgrade kit for each system at the price of $9.95. It is also offered a similar program for customers that have or will purchase Xserves and wish to upgrade it to OS X Snow Leopard Server.
Mac OS X Snow Leopard is a refined version of the elegant Mac OS X having lots of little touches and performance improvements, this will make the user to enjoy Mac even more. It includes some technologies designed to draw the power of today’s computer hardware and ensure a strong base for innovation.
Mac OS X is known to be simple, reliable and easy to use. So, the engineers from Apple Comp. had a single purpose in their minds while designing the Snow Leopard: to refine a fine thing and not reinvent it. So they set out to further simplify and speed up, from little details to big ones, and the result is amazing!The Finder feature is completely rewritten to include 64-bit support and Grand Central Dispatch. It proves to be more responsive with snappier performance across the whole Finder. The 64-bit support doesn’t contradict itself, through that that is displaying its power to speed up everything from, as we know, everyday applications to the most demanding scientific computations. And is the same with Snow Leopard.
Although the 64-bit support is showing its capability in Mac OS X, the Snow Leopard takes an even bigger step by rewriting almost all system applications in 64-bit code and by giving the Mac the possibility to address large amounts of memory.
That the entire computing industry is adopting the 64-bit technology it’s not a new fact. Through Mac computers this is easy to make us see why?!
Almost all built-in applications (including the Finder, Mail, Safari, iCal, and iChat) are built with 64-bit code. Beside the fact that they are capable of taking full advantage of all the available memory in your Mac, they also increase the overall performance through the move to 64-bit applications. Next to other improvements and refinements, Snow Leopard offers the feeling that everything you do (launching applications such as QuickTime or using JavaScript in Safari to open images, etc) is faster and more responsive.
The 64-bit support is preparing Mac OS X with the new Snow Leopard for whatever computing devices might come in the future. So, why not give your Mac OS X an upgrading with Snow Leopard new performances?
