{"id":44721,"date":"2024-09-04T15:15:35","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T19:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=44721"},"modified":"2024-09-06T11:01:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T15:01:09","slug":"snow-leopard-at-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/04\/snow-leopard-at-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow Leopard at 15"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Rossignol<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Today marks the 15th anniversary of Apple releasing Mac OS X Snow Leopard, which became available to purchase for $29 on August 28, 2009<\/a>.<\/p>

After advertising Mac OS X Leopard as having “over 300 new features” in 2007, Apple previewed Snow Leopard at WWDC 2008. Notably, during that year’s “State of the Union” session, Apple showed a presentation slide that said the update had “0 new features,” as Apple opted to focus on under-the-hood performance and stability improvements.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Perhaps the more important anniversary is that of macOS 10.6.8 v1.1 on July 25, 2011<\/a>. Yes, Snow Leopard didn’t really have any new user-facing features, but it had big changes the hood and was kind of a rough release at the outset. The Snow Leopard we remember fondly is the final version, released after almost two years of refinements.<\/p>\n\n

Or, put another way, there were “no new features” between the initial releases of Leopard<\/a> on October 26, 2007 and Lion<\/a> on July 20, 2011.<\/p>\n\n

Mario Guzmán<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Mac OS X Leopard\/Snow Leopard appreciation post.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I never liked the capsule-style toolbar buttons in Mail, and iTunes didn’t yet use a standard<\/a> table view, but otherwise I think the visuals in Snow Leopard have aged pretty well. We’ve gone from colored sidebar icons on a monochrome background to monochrome symbols on a busy, colored background.<\/p>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n