Though you might mistake Snow Leopard for plain old Leopard when you first boot it up, there's a lot of subtle stuff happening on screen and under the hood. Here's our guide to everything new in the latest Mac OS.
If—like us—you were wondering if the Mac OS X Snow Leopard you got from Torrent is the same as the retail one, wonder no more: The build number of the retail bloody cat is 10A432. [MacRumors—Thanks Bigdave]
So what is the build number of the final version of Snow Leopard shipping in boxes next week? Is it 10A432, as had been widely speculated? Or is it this new-fangled 10A435 some people have been talking about?
If we believe this shot, and we don't see much reason not to, a lucky Apple customer in Japan got a surprise with his Mac Mini purchase: A Snow Leopard install disc, ahead of its purported August 28th release.
Word is that Snow Leopard has reached Gold Master status with build 10A432—that means Snow Leopard is done and ready to be released to manufacturing for launch next month.
It's easier than ever to pit Windows 7 and OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard head-to-head: They're launching soon, both within a month of each other—and both are basically glorified service packs of the current OS.
Maybe the best front-end feature from Snow Leopard yet: HFS+ drivers will let you access your Mac's files from Windows in Boot Camp, making running multiple OSes on one machine more seamless.
Click to viewOS 10.6 is called Snow Leopard, straight from Steve's mouth. Developers will get their first peek "after lunch." What about poor bloggers? [WWDC08 @ Giz]
