Wednesday, August 28th marked 15 years since Apple released the Mac OS X Snow Leopard operating system. It was available on August 28, 2009 for $29 and Apple advertised it as “an operating system with 0 new features.”
After introducing and promoting its Mac OS X Leopard operating system in 2007 as having “over 300 new features,” the Cupertino company announced its successor – Mac OS X Snow Leopard – at WWDC 2008, saying that the update offers “0 new features.” Why? Apple decided to focus on general performance and stability improvements for this particular update. “We’ve built on the success of Leopard and created an even better experience for our users from installation to shutdown,” said the then former head of software engineering in relation to the new operating system update for Apple computers Bertrand Serlet. “Apple engineers have made hundreds of improvements, so with Snow Leopard your system will be faster, more responsive, and even more reliable than ever before.” added.
In connection with the Mac OS X Snow Leopard operating system, Apple claimed to have improved 90 percent of the major “designs” built into Mac OS X. Apple touted the update as improvements that bring a more responsive Finder, an improved Mail app that loads emails up to twice as fast as before, Time Machine backups that were up to 80 percent faster, and a 64-bit version of Safari that was up to 50 percent faster. 50 percent faster than the previous version. Additionally, Snow Leopard took up about half the disk space of the previous Leopard.