I like all the little tricks surfacing in Snow Leopard, Apple’s next edition of OS X, from Macrumors, AppleInsider and Mac Life. Aside from the features we’ve already seen, here are some new favs:
There’s this Wi-Fi strength indicator, long overdue, in the dock.
And when a battery is close to end of life, the OS will report that, too. (To clarify, not only a dead battery, but one that will fail to hold its charge well.)
Automatic spelling correction in textedit.
Among other speed enhancements, boot and shut down twice as fast as in OS X Leopard.
Of course, these are really trivial next to things like multicore and GPU processing. But refined details are something I appreciate in an operating system.
[Macrumors, AppleInsider and Mac Life]
Bob Williams
June 17, 2009 at 12:28 PM
You mean “in the menu bar” not “in the dock.” 2nd paragraph.
Report PermalinkCasey Glass
June 17, 2009 at 1:08 PM
system wide (including TextEdit) spell check is already in Leopard.
Report PermalinkNathan
June 17, 2009 at 4:25 PM
There is already a wifi signal strength indicator in Leopard.
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