Apple Snow Leopard OS

On August 28th, 2009 Apple will make available it's next operating system called Snow Leopard. It won't be a total redesign like Microsoft OS upgrades, but rather significant refinement to an already an excellent OS.

I like what's changed, faster file searches for an already incredible "finder", smaller footprint (7GB of disk recovered), 80% faster backups, and leaveraging 64 bit computing technology. The latter means applications can actually harness theoretically limitless amounts phyiscal RAM at a time rather than swapping 4GB at a time like most 32bit OSes. In simple terms, way faster processing per clock cycle. But these are just a few way cool things to expect.

All this for a mere $35. No hardware upgrades needed either. Bonus.

When I compare that to the $109 Windows Vista upgrade, RAM and video card upgrades needed, I'm pretty sure my existing PC will be staying on Windows XP SP2 forever.