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John Siracusa reviews Mac OS X 10.6

By kirsch | September 1, 2009

Every time there is a new major Mac OS X release, John Siracusa of the excellent technology website Ars Technica releases a long and detailed review. And the one for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard one has arrived. I post about it here because I think a del.icio.us link on the sidebar is not enough.
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Snow Leopard

By kirsch | August 28, 2009

Ah, the smell of a new Mac OS X in the morning… There was a line at the Apple Store yet no free t-shirts as before. I hear almost everything is faster – and things will just get faster as applications start taking advantage of OpenCL and Grand Central.

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No longer missing iPhone features

By kirsch | June 17, 2009

In June of 2007 I wrote a post titled “Seemingly obvious software features missing from the iPhone“.
Today, iPhone OS 3.0 will be available and the iPhone 3G S is shipping, so I thought it’d be interesting to see how things stand now.
Below is the original list, with the items that are now covered striked through:

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The Mac’s 25th anniversary

By kirsch | January 24, 2009

To celebrate the birth of the Macintosh, exactly 25 years ago, I present to you a leaked screenshot I acquired of the next version of Mac OS X: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Happy birthday!

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