August 31, 2009
The next version of Mac OS X, version 10.6 called Snow Leopard, is expected to be available on the Software Center by October 1st 2009. Installation will be via the Software Center’s Netinstall server, which is the same process other versions of OS X were made available to the campus. Mac OS X Snow Leopard will be available as a no charge upgrade to all Case students, faculty and staff.
Refined, not reinvented.
Mac OS X is renowned for its simplicity, its reliability, and its ease of use. So when it came to designing Snow Leopard, Apple engineers had a single goal: to make a great thing even better. They searched for areas to refine, further simplify, and speed up — from little things like ejecting external drives to big things like installing the OS. In many cases, they elevated great to amazing.
A more advanced, more nimble Finder.
The Finder has been completely rewritten in Cocoa to take advantage of all the modern technologies in Mac OS X, including 64-bit support and Grand Central Dispatch. It’s more responsive from top to bottom, with snappier performance throughout the Finder. And it includes new features such as customizable Spotlight search options and an enhanced icon view that lets you thumb through a multipage document or watch a QuickTime movie.
More new features and improvements
Find out about all of the new features and improvements in Mac OS X Snow Leopard by going to http://www.apple.com/macosx/refinements/
Visit the Software Center at http://softwarecenter.case.edu
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