Apple Mac OS X Snow Leopard – Performance Review

Overview:

The New Apple’s Mac OS X Snow Leopard is available for Market from 28th August, 2009. The main features are Stylish Layout, Best performance about to wake-up & shutdown, Minimum Hardware requirements, and more performance enhancements

How Snow Leopard is better for Mac OS X?

iChat Theater now offers 640-by-480 resolution, four times greater than before.

Operating System Services are more simplified, streamlined, and helpful.

Automatic update of Timezone as well as Printer Component Driver Updates.

Safari 4 delivers up to 50 percent faster JavaScript performance^. In addition, Safari is even more resistant to crashes. It turns out that the number one cause of crashes in Mac OS X is browser plug-ins. So New Safari is redesigned  to make plug-ins run separately,  if a plug-in crashes on a web page, Safari will keep running.

64-bit Transition

The computing industry is radically moving from 32-bit to 64-bit technology, and it’s easy to see why.  The New Mac computers can hold up to 32GB of physical memory, but the 32-bit applications that run on them can address only 4GB of RAM at a time. 64-bit computing shatters that barrier by enabling applications to address a theoretical 16 billion gigabytes

It ensures 32bit compatibility for your 64bit system.

Core Processor Processing Feature

Mac OS X Snow Leopard, making it easier for all kinds of applications to take better advantage of multicore processors.

xCode Feature for Developers

The Xcode debugger and Instruments performance analysis tool to get insights into GCD at runtime. These tools make it possible to quickly inspect any GCD work queue, even down to a specific block of executing code, giving developers a complete understanding of their application as GCD efficiently assigns tasks to each available core.