Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 24th Jun 2008 00:34 UTC
Although Apple is marketing Mac OS X Snow Leopard as an operating system update with "no new features," under the hood improvements will actually translate into a slew of new enhancements, five of which are described herein.
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2008-06-12
Can someone running OS X confirm the sizes of some of those apps... How the heck is this TextEdit application 22mb? AbiWord compiled for Linux x86 is 5mb and I have to assume something called "TextEdit" has less features (again, I don't use OS X so maybe that assumption is my problem).
Then again, look at these other apps:
iChat 111mb / Pidgin 2mb
Mail 287mb / Thunderbird 33mb
Safari 64mb / Firefox 4mb
(Note that even the upcoming versions of all the Mac apps are still substantially larger)
Of course, as I am sure someone will point out, the size of the install might have little to do with performance (both theoretically and empirically). It could be a difference between binaries on OS X and Linux? Or perhaps Mac apps have tons of documentation? Or perhaps the old apps contain both PowerPC and x86 binaries?
Or perhaps Linux apps make use of a lot more shared libraries hence the applications themselves need to implement less functionality. On the other hand, I would think that a private company (Apple) could facilitate sharing of code more effectively than an amorphous group of worldwide developers (OSS)...
Edited 2008-06-24 05:02 UTC