Apple announces its new operating system Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Apple ha anunciado hoy que el próximo viernes, 28 de agosto, lanzará al mercado la próxima versión de su sistema operativo. Mac OS X Snow Leopard se pondrá a la venta el viernes como ampliación para los usuarios de Mac OS X Leopard al precio recomendado de 29 euros (IVA incluido).

Apple today announced that Mac OS X Snow Leopard will go on sale on Friday, August 28. Snow Leopard brings hundreds of refinements, new core technologies, and built-in support for Microsoft Exchange. Snow Leopard will be released as an extension for Mac OS X Leopard users at the recommended price of 29 euros (VAT included).

To create Snow Leopard, Apple engineers have refined 90 percent of the more than 1,000 projects that make up Mac OS X. Users will find improvements in many facets, including a more responsive Finder; a Mail that loads messages up to twice as fast; Time Machine that performs the initial backup up to 80 percent faster; a Dock that integrates Exposé; QuickTime X with a redesigned player that allows users to easily view, record, trim and share videos; and a 64-bit version of Safari 4 that is up to 50 percent faster and resistant to plug-in crashes. Snow Leopard is half the size of the previous version and frees up up to 7 GB of disk space once installed.

For the first time, system apps like Finder, Mail, iCal, iChat, and Safari are 64-bit. And Snow Leopard's 64-bit processor support addresses huge amounts of RAM, increases performance and improves security, while maintaining compatibility with 32-bit applications. Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) gives software developers a new way to write applications that take advantage of multi-core processors. OpenCL, an open standard based on the C language, allows developers to exploit the incredible power of graphics processing units for tasks beyond graphics.

Mac OS X Server Snow Leopard

La nueva versión del sistema operativo servidor de Apple, se pondrá también a la venta el viernes, 28 de agosto. Snow Leopard Server incluye nuevas características como Podcast Producer 2 y Mobile Access Server y su precio recomendado, más asequible que nunca antes, será de 479 euros (IVA incluido) para un número ilimitado de licencias de máquinas cliente.