“While [Apple’s Mac OS X] Snow Leopard is, essentially, Leopard, it has been dramatically rewritten to be faster in some operations on all Macs, and faster still when future Macs can take advantage of architecture enhancements,” Mark Webster blogs for The New Zealand Herald.
“So if you’ve upgraded, you will have noticed straight away that you now have more disc space. This is partly because of Apple’s adoption of the hard drive space maths used for decades by most hard drive manufacturers (ie, that 1000 megabytes is a gigabyte, and not 1024 megabytes), but also because OS 10.6x is smaller,” Webster writes.
“This is partly through ‘leaner’ code being written for essential operations and partly because 10.6 only installs the printer drivers you’re deemed to need, rather than every printer driver available,” Webster writes. “But now you might be sitting there wondering what all the fuss is about. If that’s you, here are a few new tips and tricks.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “James W.” for the heads up.]