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John Siracusa reviews Mac OS X 10.6
Every time there is a new major Mac OS X release, John Siracusa of the excellent technology website Ars Technica releases a long and detailed review. And the one for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard one has arrived. I post about it here because I think a del.icio.us link on the sidebar is not enough.
John Siracusa has been writing these reviews since Mac OS X DP2 (December 1999) and they are excellent, offering a well written detailed view into the internals and externals of Mac OS X. For me it’s a fascinating read. For you, I don’t know… this is probably attractive only for the technical mind. Mom, don’t read this.
Snow Leopard
Ah, the smell of a new Mac OS X in the morning… There was a line at the Apple Store yet no free t-shirts as before. I hear almost everything is faster – and things will just get faster as applications start taking advantage of OpenCL and Grand Central.
No longer missing iPhone features
In June of 2007 I wrote a post titled “Seemingly obvious software features missing from the iPhone“.
Today, iPhone OS 3.0 will be available and the iPhone 3G S is shipping, so I thought it’d be interesting to see how things stand now.
Below is the original list, with the items that are now covered striked through:
- Video recording
- Voice-note recording
- VoIP (like Skype) functionality
- .Mac syncing
- Copy/Paste
- Ringtones from your music
- Synchronization thrugh WiFi or Bluetooth (done through MobileMe)
- Keychain (password storing)
- Objective C/ Cocoa SDK
- Dashboard/Widget support (outside of Safari)
- iChat (through 3rd party applications)
- A2DP
- Voice dialing
- Games
- Slot for memory cards
- Spotlight
- Java
- Flash
- MMS
- Geolocation
- eBooks
- Built in RSS Reader (through 3rd party applications)
- SSH ((through 3rd party applications – client only)
- Bonjour iTunes sharing
- Printing support (through 3rd party applications)
- Video teleconferencing
Almost everything is covered now. What do you think the new list should contain? Here’s a recent article with 25 still-missing features.
The Mac’s 25th anniversary
To celebrate the birth of the Macintosh, exactly 25 years ago, I present to you a leaked screenshot I acquired of the next version of Mac OS X: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Happy birthday!