Apple Announces Mac OS X Snow Leopard

The new Apple operating system, Snow Leopard, will be 45% faster and crash resistant. After installing Snow Leopard, you'll notice that you gained 6GB of HDD space back, too. Also, all major Mac applications will be able to run at 64bit, while everything else will remain 32bit, thanks to Apple's Grand Central Dispatch, which will help take full advantage of multicore processors.

Quicktime has received a complete work over, as well. Built from the ground up, Quicktime X will feature a new user interface and will allow users to easily view, record, trim and share video to YouTube, MobileMe or iTunes.

Snow Leopard will be usable on all Intel Macs, past and present, when it launches this September. The suggested retail price is $29 (US) and the Snow Leopard Family Pack, a single household, five-user license, will be available for a suggested price of $49 (US). For Tiger users with an Intel-based Mac, the Mac Box Set includes Mac OS X Snow Leopard, iLife '09 and iWork '09 and will be available for a suggested price of $169 (US) and a Family Pack is available for a suggested price of $229 (US).

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