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when will snow leopard be released?

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take a Snow Leopard home, but never feed him after midnight

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Snow Leopard isn't just going to be a minor update, but probably one of the biggest to OSX in a while. They are going back to the core and slimming it down and adding lots of new features.

So far rumors have been pointing to a 2009 release, but only Apple knows for sure. Make your official vote now for a chance to win a copy of Snow Leopard when it's released.

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lastest news on Snow Leopard...

ZFS (and Snow Leopard) to Speed up Solid State Drive Perform

says...

“Infoworld reports (via MacsimumNews) that Samsung has been working with developers to boost solid state drive (SSD) performance in operating systems. Samsung announced Wednesday that it has been in talks with Microsoft to boost performance in Windows:The speed and way in which SSDs fetch and cache…”

Hopefully the consumer version of snow leopard uses the new ZFS file system!

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August 8th, 2008 - Posted in Snow Leopard | | 0 Comments

snow leopard… a thin cat

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with snow leopard apple is aiming to reduce the size of applications so they can be used in a growing number of mobile devices, ipod touch, iphone, etc… but how much are the applications slimming down? I found a chart on appleinsider.com comparing the sizes on leopard and snow leopard…

June 25th, 2008 - Posted in Snow Leopard | | 1 Comments

apple putting some heat on microsoft

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as more information about snow leopard becomes available it seems like apple is adding some nifty features into the os that will leave microsoft playing catch up… first they announced Grand Central and now they are adding ZFS to the server version of snow leopard… the heat is definitely on for billy and his gang…

more after the jump

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June 22nd, 2008 - Posted in Snow Leopard | | 0 Comments

snow leopard coming in january?

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news about the new intel-only mac os is out… and according to rumors it will be out in january…

what do you think?

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June 5th, 2008 - Posted in Snow Leopard | | 1 Comments

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