So many little enhancements to discover
Snow Leopard is out and I'm wondering a bit how few articles are being posted about it these days. Before it came out the web was full of it, but now that it's been released there are just a few notes about Wake On Demand or some benchmarks, but it seems like everybody's having it, using it, but only few are talking about it.
Sure, Snow Leopard is not a feature update. It is all about optimization... in speed, in size, in polish. But I'm still missing posts about the list of enhancements and changes, because I for myself have discovered many more things than I was able to find talked about on the internet. How do you feel about this about, what did you already discover? In my case... I am feeling a way more responsive system, everything's speedier, every app is loading faster, quitting faster. You know, this speed thing that you cannot really show in benchmarks. Yeah, about benchmarks: I don't think CPU, RAM or GPU benchmarks are a good way to measure the speed improvements. What do you expect from a benchmark when you don't feel any lag in computing time? I don't feel my CPU was too slow and it had to be optimized, no. I felt my system was working on my hard disk too much, needing too long to load applications, too long to switch applications and such and that's not a CPU peak problem. And I don't know if Snow Leopard is better at these things, I just feel it right now, right after a fresh installation, and I hope that this feeling will stay forever now. When this comes true, I can tell that Snow Leopard is a way faster operating system. But this is not benchmarkable, this is just about responsiveness and such. So for now I'm glad about this new OS. I like to discover those little changes... like the new little fade effect when hovering spaces and how it's zooming smoother, the possiblity to quickly upload a movie snippet for my friends, the fact that "dock expose" is much more than we've been told (just take the previews for minimized windows)... and where the heck does that "Insert screenshot" function that's enabled for all text entry fields now? Does it come from Leopard? Anyway... just my 2 cents, think I wanted to enrich the base of Snow Leopard posts a bit, still waiting for new input, lol.
