Mac OS X Snow Leopard Launched 15 Years In the past Right now With ‘0 New Options’ – Uplaza

Right now marks the fifteenth anniversary of Apple releasing Mac OS X Snow Leopard, which turned accessible to buy for $29 on August 28, 2009.

After promoting Mac OS X Leopard as having “over 300 new features” in 2007, Apple previewed Snow Leopard at WWDC 2008. Notably, throughout that yr’s “State of the Union” session, Apple confirmed a presentation slide that stated the replace had “0 new features,” as Apple opted to concentrate on under-the-hood efficiency and stability enhancements.

“We’ve built on the success of Leopard and created an even better experience for our users from installation to shutdown,” stated Apple’s former software program engineering chief Bertrand Serlet. “Apple engineers have made hundreds of improvements so with Snow Leopard your system is going to feel faster, more responsive and even more reliable than before.”

With Snow Leopard, Apple stated it refined 90% of the foundational “projects” that had been constructed into Mac OS X. Apple pitched the replace as providing a extra responsive Finder app, an improved Mail app that masses emails as much as twice as quick as earlier than, as much as 80% sooner Time Machine backups, and a 64-bit model of Safari that was as much as 50% sooner than the earlier model. Snow Leopard additionally took up round half as a lot disk area as Leopard.

You’ll be able to watch Serlet communicate extra about Snow Leopard at WWDC 2009 under.