Snow Leopard Announced + Safari 4 Released

Developing… more information and photos coming as we get it!

At WWDC today, Phil introduced Bertrand Serlet to talk about the Mac OS. He announced that Snow Leopard will be available in late September for Intel Macs with either OS 10.4 Tiger or 10.5 Leopard.

FEATURES
Apple highlighted many of the features, including speed, refinements and support for other software.

• Faster installation process: 45% faster and 6 GB smaller
• Speed improvements for Mail, Safari 4, Spotlight and more
• Support for Microsoft Exchange Server to Mail, iCal, and Address Book

Snow Leopard will also be available with unlimited client licenses on Mac, Windows, and Linux for $499.99.

PRICING
For Leopard Users:

• Snow Leopard single-user license will be available for $29.99
• Snow Leopard Family Pack (five-user license), will be available $49.99

For Tiger users:

• As part of the Mac Box Set (which includes Snow Leopard, iLife ’09 and iWork ’09), the single-user license will be available for $169.99
• Again, as part of the Mac Box Set the five-user license Family Pack will be available for $229.99
• Currently, we do not see evidence that a Snow Leopard upgrade is available for Tiger users as a stand-alone piece. However, the price of the Mac Box Set is still cheap, and you get all three!

In addition, for any qualifying new Mac system without Snow Leopard, the Up-To-Date upgrade package will be available to customers between June 8, 2009 and December 26, 2009 for $9.95. Visit www.apple.com/macosx/uptodate for more information.

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Safari 4 has been in beta for several weeks, and now is officially released.

FEATURES

• HTML 5 support for offline technologies and support for advanced CSS Effects
• First browser to pass the Web Standards Project’s Acid3 test (it examines CSS, JavaScript and XML standards designed for dynamic web apps)
• Top Sites (I already use this and love it): puts your most-used websites right on a homepage instead of a blank new page/tab
• Full History Search: search through titles, web addresses and the complete text of recently viewed pages
• Cover Flow: flip through web history/bookmarks
• In Snow Leopard, Safari will run as a 64-bit app (performance boost of up to 50%)
• Snow Leopard features a way to make Safari more crash-resistant because it will run plug-ins in a separate process

from Apple’s press release

For more features, click here.
To see what else is new in Safari 4, click here.
Download Safari 4 here (price: free).