Apple Previews Snow Leopard for September Release

--On 6/8/2009 5:26 PM -0700 TidBITS Editors wrote:

> Apple Previews Snow Leopard for September Release
[...]
> Snow Leopard works with any Intel-based
> Mac with 1 GB of memory, at least 5 GB of free disk space, and a DVD
> drive.
[...]
> Snow Leopard's installation has been designed to be 45-percent
> faster than Leopard's installation process, and recovers over 6 GB
> of space after completed. While this saved disk space seems like a
> minor issue when 1 TB hard drives cost $80, less space taken up
> means more efficient code.
[...]
> **Pricing and Release Dates** -- As previously announced, Snow Leopard
> requires an Intel processor, which cuts the cord for anyone with a
> PowerPC-based Mac. The memory and storage requirements are quite
> compact: 1 GB of RAM and 5 GB of available storage space.

I assume a decent fraction of the space reduction from Leopard to Snow
Leopard actually comes from jettisoning the PowerPC code and going to
Intel-only.

Dave

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 12:17 PM, LuKreme<kremelskreme.com> wrote:
> On 8-Jun-2009, at 18:26, TidBITS Editors wrote:
>>
>> The company also revealed Snow Leopard will ship in September and
>> cost $29 to upgrade from Leopard. Snow Leopard works with any Intel-
>> based Mac with 1 GB of memory, at least 5 GB of free disk space, and
>> a DVD drive...
>
> You showed great restraint in not saying, "Nyah nyah nyah, I told you
> so!" You're a better man than I am, Gunga-Engst.
>
> I wonder how many people forwarded your original article along to The
> Steve, with or without their own comments?  I did.

Yeah, it was hard restraining myself. But in this case, I like to
think I was just thinking along the correct lines and it's what Apple
had planned all along. :-)

cheers... -Adam

On 10-Jun-2009, at 01:32, Dave Scocca wrote:
> I assume a decent fraction of the space reduction from Leopard to Snow
> Leopard actually comes from jettisoning the PowerPC code and going to
> Intel-only.

There's a lot more that that. There's a lot of overall slimming, both
in code and in resources--especially shared resources. I've heard that
one of the largest savings came from removing redundant nib files.

The Rosetta install, which allows anything<1> that will run in 10.5 to
run in 10.6 is only a couple of MB in size (yes, MEGAbytes).

<1> Well, not sure that's true.