In my day job as a Mac software developer I’m certainly excited by the prospects offered in the upcoming Mac OS X 10.6 release codenamed “Snow Leopard“.
But that’s just the thing. I’m excited because I’m a developer and Snow Leopard offers a boatload of awesome things for developers and other under-the-hood improvements. As an end-user, I’m not really sure what benefits I see from Snow Leopard, especially in terms of enticing me to plunk down a big chunk of money to buy that OS version.
Adam Engst at TidBITS wrote an article that articulates the matter better than I ever could. I think there’s a good argument for making Snow Leopard as low-cost as possible, especially because yes a lot of people are still hanging on to Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4). Anything to help get people to move along is useful.
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I hope they make the server version (almost) free too. 🙂
10.4.11 is what I’m running.
I hope they make the memory management better. Safari is a memory leaking piece.
The family iMac still runs Tiger, mostly because there was a time the kids were still using software that required Classic. But that’s no longer, so I figure well…. I figure I’d rather buy a new iMac (the current is a G5-based and it’d be nice to go all-Intel in the household). Maybe I’ll wait for Snow Leopard. 🙂