The latest Apple operating system, that Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard will go on sale Friday, 28 August through the company’s retail and online stores and Apple Authorised Resellers.

 

August 25 2009: The latest Apple operating system, that Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard will go on sale Friday, 28 August through the company’s retail and online stores and Apple Authorised Resellers.
Snow Leopard builds on a decade of OS X innovation and comes with new core technologies and out of the box support for Microsoft Exchange. It be available as an upgrade for Mac OS X Leopard users at a single-user RRP of $39. Features of the new OS include a more responsive Finder; Mail that loads messages up to twice as fast; Time Machine with an up to 80 percent faster initial backup; a Dock with Exposøƒ © integration; QuickTime X with a redesigned player that allows users to easily view, record, trim and share video; and a 64-bit version of Safari 4 that is up to 50% faster and resistant to crashes caused by plug-ins.
Snow Leopard is half the size of the previous version and frees up to 7GB of drive space once installed. For the first time, key system applications like Finder, Mail, iCal, iChat and Safari are 64-bit and Snow Leopard’s support for 64-bit processors makes use of large amounts of RAM, increases performance and improves security while remaining compatible with 32-bit applications.
Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) provides a revolutionary new way for software developers to write applications that take advantage of multi-core processors. OpenCL, a C-based open standard, allows developers to tap the incredible power of the graphics processing unit for tasks that go beyond graphics.
The Mac OS X Snow Leopard Up-to-Date upgrade package is available to all customers who purchased a qualifying new Mac system from Apple or an Apple Authorised Reseller between 8 June, 2009 and the end of the program on 26 December, 2009, for a product plus shipping and handling fee of A$14.95 inc GST. Users must request their Up-to-Date upgrade within 90 days of purchase or by 26 December, 2009, whichever comes first. For more information, visit www.apple.com/au/macosx/uptodate. Snow Leopard requires a minimum of 1GB of RAM and is designed to run on any Mac computer with an Intel processor. Full system requirements can be found at www.apple.com/au/macosx/specs.html.