Apple launched Safari 4 browser and announced the release date and details of Snow Leopard Update (aka OS X 10.6 coming out in Sep.) along side the launch of new Mac Pro and Mac Air laptops at WWDC
The new Safari 4 browser that is available for download, comes with new striking features including:
- fixing 51 separate vulnerabilities, some of them quite old (the oldest is CVE-2006-2783 an error in the parsing of Unicode text).
-Top Sites view: to show users’ most visited websites in 3D framewoek view.
- It works easily with Leopard, Tiger, and Windows OSes.
- The performance of this new browser is 7.8X times faster than IE8. Apple has also claimed it is faster than Google Chrome browser. A test done by PC Magazine shows that they (Safari 4 vs. Chrome 2) were neck to neck when it comes to speed.
- embedded in Snow Leopard
- iTune-like Cover Flow interface for viewing history
Snow Leopard Update OS that will be available in September will only cost $29 for the Mac OS users to update their Leopard to the latest version. Surely the new Mac laptops and computers will be shipped with the new Snow Leopard Update. This version of Mac OS only works on Intel-based Mac.
Although, this update doesn’t provide many new features for end users, it is more reliable and responsive than the previous version. It has faster overall performance with taking advantage of “64-bit, limitless of memory support and multicore CPUs, along with faster graphics processing hardware.”
Here are some of the highlighted features:
- It has supports for Chinese characters
- Faster mail performance and support for Microsoft Exchange mail, contacts, and calendars
- Quick Time X player comes with new HTTP streaming feature and takes advantage of hardware acceleration. Now, it is installed 45% faster than the Quick Time and is able to open JPEF image files twice as fast and PDF documents 1.5 times faster than the previous version- Quick Time. Quick Time X is able to organize and share video files.
- Easy moving of content across windows; like to drag and drop a video into an email.
- Viewing Office doc even when you don’t have this application by the means of Microsoft Exchange User. Exchange support has made Mac OS more handy and better replacement for Windows OS.
-iCal can find next available time when other people in the group you have made are busy
- Grand Central Dispatch is a new tool which provides “a programming environment that breaks up tasks into multiple threads based on the number of cores and threads available” to take advantage of multi cores. It also supports OpenCL.
Sources: Laptop Magazine, PC Magazine
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