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After several announcements of new releases Snow beta aimed at developers, was released the final version of Mac OS X 10.5.8. Given that Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6, is planned for September, this is likely the last version of Mac OS X Leopard. 


The update, as always, available through Software Update (165 Mb) and soon via manual download (in standard version and combo), it is recommended by Apple to all Leopard users. 



As indicated by Apple, includes general system fixes that enhance the operational stability, compatibility and security, as well as specific fixes for:

-Problems that may affect the reliability of Bluetooth

-Problems of compatibility and reliability when accessing a network station

-A problem that may cause some monitor resolutions do not appear in System Preferences Display

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I’ve heard that Snow Leopard is said to have bigger changes “under the hood” and therefore invisible to the end user, if not in terms of performance. The same is certainly true, Apple developers are also working to improve the already-insanely-great experience of Mac OS X Leopard and are doing with a many series of small changes to which we can watch some of them through YouTube for the time being. Here is one of them:

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A YouTube user which published a number of clips demonstrating the new Mac OS X 10.6, the version currently in development of the operating system made in Cupertino whose public release is expected by the end of 2009. As Apple said this will once again be the most advanced OS in the world. It will be 50% faster than the previous Leopard and optimized specially for Intel ship and nothing said about the old PPC ships.

There are video clips demonstrating new features on Snow Leopard, some reveal a number of great details and very cool stuff it can do. For example, the improvement in the Quick Look feature that adds the possibility to enlarge the icons to the size of the window which is a useful innovation that could become a new way to preview PDF files. I can’t wait for other people to try it out first…. then come back and tell me that everything is fine. It’s not a good idea to be the first in this matter.

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Since a few days after, the Mac OS X 10.5.7 was available for download. As always with a latest update, after the first installation there will often be many positive and negative things. And this latest 10.5.7 update is no acceptation, it comes with both bug fixes and the bugs itself, Yike!

The big improvement would be benefitcial to only users who has Core CPU. Because, Apple has changed the distribution of the CPU cores to do work aufbrummt.

A Photoshop expert who was once happy with 10.5.6 CPU cores, now needs to get higher CPU power for more extensive Photoshop tasks on a dual-CPU Mac Pro.

With 10.5.7, it reached a better Performance in some test sooner if it had turned on all kernels. If it deactivated kernels, the computer would become slower than with 10.5.6.

In his opinion, Apple already has something on the scale of tasks for multiple cores changed. Apple would also like Snow Leopard with more optimizations at this point to make, hopefully it will soon be available with least bugs and improve the performance of all our Mac machines.

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For those who do not know what the HFS + filesystem is Mac OS X uses to format your partitions, and is usually used by all the disks that are managed only with Apple computers. It is a system with a performance and efficiency superior to FAT32 in Windows, but with the drawback that the Microsoft operating systems can not read it.

Until now, to solve this problem we had to install Windows applications such as MacDrive, but it appears that Snow Leopard will no longer be needed. It has been discovered in the Boot Camp tool of the last build of Mac OS X 10.6 a number of drivers that allow Windows to read from the system partition HFS +.

In conclusion, we will not have to resort to any third party software to access our files from the Mac OS partition of Windows we’ve done with Boot Camp on our computers (in the case that we have made, of course) facilitate the work.

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