Apple announced the official ship date for the next major revision of Mac OS X, 10.6 a.k.a. “Snow Leopard” will be Friday August 28th.
Snow Leopard is light on obvious new major features compared to previous major releases s most of the changes are under-the-hood improvements to reliability and speed. It does sport a shiny new version of the Finder that adds the ability to view icons up to 512×512 pixels in size and restores a few old features such as “Put Back” for trashed items.
- Snow Leopard Refinements
- TidBITS: What’s New in Snow Leopard
- TidBITS: Examining Snow Leopard Installer Changes
- TidBITS: Peering Inside Snow Leopard Security
- Macworld: 11 major new Snow Leopard features
- Macworld: Snow Leopard’s smaller changes
It is priced at $29 but is only for Intel Macs and cannot be installed on older PowerPC based machines.