Apple’s new Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard “is smaller and faster than before,” Christopher Saunders reports for InternetNews.
Saunders writes, “Take a second to think about this.”
“With each subsequent release of OS X, the operating system’s performance has gotten better and better while hardware requirements have barely moved,” Saunders reports. “Actually, until Snow Leopard’s debut, you could continue running the latest version of the operating system on hardware that existed even before OS X itself and still be realizing performance improvements.”
“And today, users may notice that with Snow Leopard, the operating system’s footprint on their hard drive has also begun decreasing,” Saunders reports. “That’s right: OS X 10.6 takes up less space than 10.5 — while being faster and introducing new features.”
“Oh, yeah: Snow Leopard retails for $29,” Saunders reports. “Now Apple’s just showing off.”
“Feats like this, I believe, need to be highlighted,” Saunders writes. “This is the way that system software should be architected. Each successive release of OS X has gotten lighter and more efficient. It hasn’t introduced bloat that forces users to upgrade their systems. Quite the opposite: It’s gotten leaner while getting more powerful.”
“It’s not clear that Microsoft will ever feel compelled to work the same way. It’s got too much riding on it now that the entire PC ecosystem seems to be counting on Windows 7 to drive new a new crop of PC sales,” Saunders writes. “That’s a pity for the consumer, who shouldn’t be required to shell out for new hardware just to run the newest system software. It’s all the more troubling when the new system software is released chiefly to fix problems with previous system software.”
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