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First sightings: Mac OS X Snow Leopard
It's a little embarrasing, but I admit it: every announcement of an upcoming OS X release rivets my attention like a Jurassic Park T Rex spotting a fresh lawyer.
Announced at last week's WWDC, Snow Leopard is the next version of Mac OS X that'll ship in about a year. Details are sparse, but Apple made the overall theme clear: big improvements in stability and performance of existing features, not lots of new marquee features. Of course, such improvements necessarily incorporate new features; they'll just mostly be under-the-hood goodies, not flashy stuff that adds "wow" to advertisements.
So, the reserved Snow Leopard may turn out to be a tougher-than-usual upgrade sell for the average Mac owner, but for those who do upgrade, and for buyers of new Macs, the OS should further cement Apple's growing reputation as the company with the most stable, productive system out there.
If you're scouring the web for any more details on Snow Leopard, start with this great overview at the ever-prolific Roughly Drafted site:
Awesome, a very buitifil parody of the "Think Different" poem.