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VIRTUALISATION It's official: Snow Leopard this Friday
VIRTUALISATION It's official: Snow Leopard this Friday | It's official: Snow Leopard this Friday |
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| by Jake Widman | |
| Tuesday, 25 August 2009 | |
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Apple has been consistent in positioning the upgrade not as one that brings a lot of new features, but as a "refined," simplified, and sped up version of Leopard. The Finder has been rewritten, for example, and Apple claims a roughly 1.5x improvement in the speed of icon refresh. Not a big feature, but a speed improvement that would add up. Similarly, Time Machine backups are supposed to go up to 80 percent faster, as is wake-up and shutdown time. New features include improvements to Exposé's handling of open windows, and to navigation through Stacks in the Dock.  Probably most significant, though, is Snow Leopard's built-in support for Microsoft Exchange Server. The Exchange Autodiscovery feature, once enabled by an IT department, should enable a Mac user to automatically set up Mail, iCal, and Address Book just by entering a user name and password into the Mail Accounts pane. For pricing and upgrade paths, see Page 2. |
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