{"id":9032,"date":"2009-08-24T16:11:05","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T15:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/snow-leopard-to-be-released-on-friday\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:20:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:20:50","slug":"snow-leopard-to-be-released-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/snow-leopard-to-be-released-on-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow Leopard to be released on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2009\/08\/snowleopardlogo.png\" alt=\"Snow Leopard Disc\" align=\"left\" \/>A little earlier than expected perhaps, Apple have officially <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/pr\/library\/2009\/08\/24macosx.html\">announced<\/a> that the next release of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard will be released on Friday at Apple\u2019s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers. Apple\u2019s online store is now accepting pre-orders. The Unofficial Apple Weblog set tongues wagging earlier today when they noted that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuaw.com\/2009\/08\/24\/apple-store-is-down-could-snow-leopard-be-coming\/\">Apple Store was down <\/a>signaling something big was in the pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>Bertrand Serlet, Apple\u2019s senior vice president of Software Engineering announced:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Snow Leopard builds on our most successful operating system ever and we\u2019re happy to get it to users earlier than expected. For just $29, Leopard users get a smooth upgrade to the world\u2019s most advanced operating system and the only system with built in Exchange support.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To get an idea of what to expect in Snow Leopard, check-out my posts earlier this year about the <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/what-to-expect-from-snow-leopard\/\">new features<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/snow-leopard-struts-its-stuff-at-apples-wwdc\/\">sneak preview at the WWDC<\/a> in June. If there&#8217;s one thing that will definitely make Snow Leopard worth upgrading for it can be summarized in one word &#8211; speed. For the modest sum of $29, I&#8217;m looking forward to an altogether faster and smoother OS X if not a particularly different one visually. For those with an eye to working with Microsoft Exchange, it&#8217;s an absolute must since it&#8217;s the first Mac OS to support it.<\/p>\n<p>Here are just a few other good reasons to upgrade if Apple&#8217;s claims are to be believed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A more responsive Finder<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Mail that loads messages up to twice as fast<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Time Machine with an up to 80 percent faster initial backup<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A Dock with Expos\u00e9 integration<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>QuickTime X with a redesigned player that allows users to easily view, record, trim and share video<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A 64-bit version of Safari 4 that is up to 50 percent faster and resistant to crashes caused by plug-ins<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>7GB extra hard drive space &#8211; Snow Leopard is half the size of the previous version and frees up to 7GB<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Look out for a full review coming soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little earlier than expected perhaps, Apple have officially announced that the next release of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard will be released on Friday at Apple\u2019s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers. Apple\u2019s online store is now accepting pre-orders. The Unofficial Apple Weblog set tongues wagging earlier today when they noted that the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/snow-leopard-to-be-released-on-friday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Snow Leopard to be released on Friday&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2009,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2963],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-9032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionsnow-leopard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335406,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9032\/revisions\/335406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9032"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=9032"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=9032"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=9032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}