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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2005-06-29
Those are bogus sizes. Here's what I get on my Mac (rounded to nearest MB):
Automator -- 2 MB
Calculator -- 2 MB
Chess -- 4 MB
Dictionary -- 1 MB
Font Book -- 2 MB
iCal -- 28 MB
iChat -- 22 MB
Image Capture -- 2 MB
iSync -- 15 MB
Mail -- 45 MB
Preview -- 3 MB
QuickTime -- 31 MB
Safari -- 51 MB
Stickies -- 1 MB
TextEdit -- 1 MB
Stickies and TextEdit are actually less than one MB each (444 KB and 992 KB respectively), but I rounded them up. The only ones even close to the chart are Safari and Chess, and some are down right laughable! A 13 MB calculator? A 22 MB rich text editor? I know AppleInsider has been prone to speculation and exaggeration in the past, but what the hell?
As others have pointed out, one must consider that a Mac .app is actually a special folder with all components necessary to run the application; it's roughly equivalent to compiling every necessary library and support file into the executable on other platforms. Because of this, Mac apps are generally a little bit bigger than their Windows and *nix counterparts, but not by nearly as much as the article makes out. This method also nullifies dependency hell (DLL hell for the Windows camp) which means much less stress on the end user.