New Snow Leopard Features Continue to Emerge
In the days since Apple previewed the forthcoming Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard at its Worldwide Developers Conference keynote and distributed a new build to conference attendees, users have been scouring the new operating system and its associated documentation and promotional materials looking for new features. Mac|Life reports on ten features that have received relatively little publicity. While a few them have been mentioned here previously and many are listed on Apple's Enhancements and Refinements page, Mac|Life's report provides a nice summary and we offer a few of the highlights for discussion.
- Expanded Multi-Touch Capabilities for Older Notebooks: Snow Leopard will bring 3- and 4-finger multi-touch gestures to multi-touch notebooks that currently do not support all available finger gestures. Examples of the gestures that will make their way to the older notebooks include swipe for Expos and swipe for switching applications.
- iChat Video Chat Improvements: iChat Theater content can be displayed at up to a resolution of 640 x 480 pixels in Snow Leopard, four times that of OS X Leopard. iChat in Snow Leopard also requires only 300 Kbps upstream bandwidth for video chats, one-third that of the bandwidth required in Leopard.
- "Auto Web Spots": Part of Apple's improvements to Accessibility, auto web spots aid in locating specific information sections on complicated Web pages. Users can navigate from spot to spot with a simple keystroke or flick of the finger.
- Expanded Multi-Touch Capabilities for Older Notebooks: Snow Leopard will bring 3- and 4-finger multi-touch gestures to multi-touch notebooks that currently do not support all available finger gestures. Examples of the gestures that will make their way to the older notebooks include swipe for Expos and swipe for switching applications.
- iChat Video Chat Improvements: iChat Theater content can be displayed at up to a resolution of 640 x 480 pixels in Snow Leopard, four times that of OS X Leopard. iChat in Snow Leopard also requires only 300 Kbps upstream bandwidth for video chats, one-third that of the bandwidth required in Leopard.
- "Auto Web Spots": Part of Apple's improvements to Accessibility, auto web spots aid in locating specific information sections on complicated Web pages. Users can navigate from spot to spot with a simple keystroke or flick of the finger.
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35 months ago
So happy about the support for multi-touch gestures. It's a remarkable generous thing for Apple to do, wouldn't you agree?
35 months ago
The "Auto Web-spots" feature looks really interesting and useful! Now I can be even more lazier and move my fingers less =)
35 months ago
Gettin' better and better every day!
Do any of you know if SL will be more optimized for SSDs than the current version of Leopard?
Do any of you know if SL will be more optimized for SSDs than the current version of Leopard?
35 months ago
The notebooks with multi finger gestures are the ones that already have some other gesture support correct? IE a late 2006 Macbook wont be getting swipes and stuff.
35 months ago
The notebooks with multi finger gestures are the ones that already have some other gesture support correct? IE a late 2006 Macbook wont be getting swipes and stuff.
Too bad. I always was a bit suspicious about multitouch not working for MacBooks that already two finger scroll... it just seems like that's a software thing. Oh well. I guess I'll have to upgrade when my warranty runs out in November... wonder if MBPs will get a real update then? :confused:
35 months ago
I'm really looking forward to the new iChat (router problems anyone?) and Auto Web Spots… Snow Leopard is gonna be great :)
35 months ago
If you remove the additional languages and printer drivers, Snow Leopard takes 4.0Gb space. You can easily fit that on to a cheap USB stick or SD card for a portable backup system.
Also, there is a new "CoreWLAN" framework in /System/Library/Frameworks, indicating a more structured WLAN system which may make it easier for hackintosh developers to write WLAN drivers for their unsupported cards. So far, these developers have been unable to write drivers for the system due to the system's lack of documentation.
Also, there is a new "CoreWLAN" framework in /System/Library/Frameworks, indicating a more structured WLAN system which may make it easier for hackintosh developers to write WLAN drivers for their unsupported cards. So far, these developers have been unable to write drivers for the system due to the system's lack of documentation.
35 months ago
Too bad. I always was a bit suspicious about multitouch not working for MacBooks that already two finger scroll... it just seems like that's a software thing. Oh well. I guess I'll have to upgrade when my warranty runs out in November... wonder if MBPs will get a real update then? :confused:
I was really asking as a question... As my main laptop is a late 2006 Macbook. I still need the finance committee to authorize a 13" MBP purchase...
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