Snow Leopard reviewed from a CS perspective

Apple recently released the latest version of their operating system called Snow Leopard. If you’ve already installed it, you might be asking yourself, “What’s the big deal?” It doesn’t really look all that different compared with Leopard, (their previous release) but that’s exactly the point.  Apple is as obsessed with perfection inside their OS as they are with the look and feel of their products.  John Siracusa of Ars Technica recently published an in-depth, 23-page article on Apple’s new OS.  He doesn’t just cover the obvious feature enhancements.  He takes the reader on an in-depth tour of the underpinnings of OS 10.6, it’s history and why Apple has made many of the changes in this release.  The article also gives you a glimpse of where Apple and MacOS are headed in the future.  Whether you’re interested subjects like compilers, threading and filesystem internals or just curious about some of the features and history of the OS, there’s something here for everyone.