These speed optimizations are deep, reminding me of when a master martial artist puts the entirety of his weight behind a strike (while a neophyte would flails his limbs like a henchman in a Bruce Lee movie). On deeper inspection, Snow Leopard’s inconspicuous aspects–performance squeezed from underused CPU multicores/GPUs and basic UI tweaks–are found to be the kind of refinement generally reserved for virtuosity. Some fanboys will ask, incredulously, “This is a new operating system?!” Those people are missing the point. Nope, mostly just rewritten old ones and dozens of little interface tweaks. And there are practically no new first-party programs by Apple. But that performance is not being utilized by any third-party programs right now. The new operating system takes the same old boring, every day tasks like opening files, for example, and makes them happen subtly faster. Snow Leopard, as a follow up to Leopard, is almost absurdly insubstantial at first glance. And yet, it could be their most important OS since 10.0.0. OS X Snow Leopard seems to do nothing really new.
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