Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard will just improve internal operation
The new Mac OS 10.6 also known with the code name Snow Leopard will arrive in about a year. It will support up to 16TB of RAM, improve multi-core support and generally tidy up internal operations. As for Windows Vista, it is this time for development teams to focus on smooth operation or maybe shortcomings that us non-developers know nothing about.
But wait a minute, this will be a supposedly new OS. And users will have to pay for it! Mac OS 10.5 has been nothing dazzling for people to upgrade to. Why should one look at Snow Leopard now? I mean people keep moaning about Vista but I have heard no complaints about the received updates and especially service packs that have completely transformed XP and Vista stability and security…
As I have written before, Apple has brilliant marketing, managing to sell features in careful incremental steps again and again and again and again. But bringing out an OS so often is not necessary and updates are a more logical approach. Charging for version 10.6 as a completely new OS is a complete rip-off. So in any case it would be a good idea to hope for XP and OS 10.4 support for at least five more years, and instead of upgrading our OS, to buy instead some software that we really need!
