Snow Leopard: Breakdown

Hey guys, this is Mac. It's one. Sorry about my hair being kind of messed up; I just woke up. But I'm going to make a brief overview video of what's new in Mac OS 10 Snow Leopard.

So first of all, there are two great things right off the bat that will make it way faster: way better performance. The first one is Grand Central Dispatch, which makes all your cores work better together. It's almost like a train station routing your cores together, so that's why it's so wonderful. It makes your CPUs even faster and more powerful.

Next thing that's even better is you might have a great graphics card in your computer, but you might not necessarily play all these great games and stuff that requires it. This new thing, OpenCL, lets you use your graphics card to actually compute and do normal operations because it has, I think it has even more mega flops than your regular processor.

Next, Finder is 64-bit. That means it's faster, more secure, and it even has a custom Spotlight search that you can customize. It's better than Spotlight, but that's just a little feature they threw in. Exposé in the dock—if you're cluttered, you're claustrophobic, whatever—Exposé really helps you get through life. You can make all your windows appear, and with the dock, it gets even better with icons stack, etc.

Time Machine backups are slow on the Mac; you have to admit. I've seen faster programs on, say, Solaris. There's a program called TimeSlide which does the same thing, and it's faster. Now Time Machine is up to 50% faster. It's probably most faster with the Time Capsule, so that's probably where you'd be benefiting the most.

And while we're here, I might as well mention everything is faster on Snow Leopard. Shutting down is fast, faster. Sleeping is faster. Waking up from sleep is faster. It does take a long time to wake up from sleep; sometimes I have to press keys, move my mouse, and click my mouse, and I can't figure out how to wake the thing up. So it's way faster.

Joining a wireless network goes faster on my iPhone than it does on the Mac. It shouldn't; they made it faster on the Mac. So now joining a wireless network goes way faster. Ejecting takes a while; sometimes it just doesn't work on the Mac, and it's laggy. When you hold the eject button, it takes a while to eject, and sometimes it just doesn't eject, period. You can't get it to eject; you have to reboot your computer and eject it when it's booting up.

So the new eject feature tells you maybe what application is preventing it from ejecting, or why it failed to eject, or if it's actually trying to eject, or if it just doesn't like you. So, dis eject is better.

Safari 4 just came out; you can get it on Leopard and Snow Leopard. So it's not really part of Snow Leopard, but the great wonderful thing about Safari 4 is that it's faster than Firefox. It has a great tab system, bookmark system, great everything, and I already use it, and I'm sure you'll all love it too.

So how much does it cost? Well, if you're one person like me with one computer—not like me, but you know—it's only $29 to get Snow Leopard to install on your computer. And you can get the family pack; if you have multiple computers like me, you can—it's only $49, so you're saving $10 there. And then you can install it on as many computers; I think the limit might actually be five. But anyway, it's a great steal.

QuickTime X is QuickTime Pro, QuickTime, and more. QuickTime X is an application that'll be on the Mac. What it does, it lets you upload to YouTube; it lets you record your screen and a bunch of cool things like that that make it perfect. So it's totally free now; Apple's making it free, so that's great, that's wonderful.

They made iChat better. iChat's slow; it doesn't need to be. Skype is better than iChat for video chatting. Screen sharing is good in my opinion, but video chatting stinks, and they made video chatting faster and better, and it's wonderful now.

So I've told you everything. Let me just tell you one last thing: if you're a businessman, it has Exchange support just like the iPhone has. One has Exchange support, so now you can go onto Exchange, you can work from home, you can get calendars, contacts, notes, everything. My school actually just stepped away from Exchange and went into Gmail, so I won't be benefiting from it. But Exchange—Microsoft's thing—and if Apple wants to support that, I guess they kind of have to because Microsoft, face it, even though they're evil, controls the market.

So thanks for watching, Midzen One. I hope you all get Snow Leopard when it comes out because I'm going to make all our apps for Snow Leopard because it's going to have some great new programming APIs. So anyway, subscribe and goodbye.