- New 15″ MacBook Pro has built in battery lasts up to 7 hours, 1000 charges, approx. 5 years. 60% better colour gamut, 3.06 Dual Core CPU, 8Gb RAM max, 500Gbx7200RPM drive, or 256Gb SSD. Starts at US$1699 through US$2229
- SD card slots added to models except 17″
- 13″ Macbook is now a MacBook Pro
- MacBook Air updated to up to 2.13GHz CPU
Snow Leopard 10.6:
- Mail, iCal and Address book now support Exchange, with auto-discovery of Exchange Servers
- QuickLook can preview Microsoft Office documents in Mail without MS Office being installed
- Preview 2x faster, better PDF text selection
- Exposé integration with Dock (“Dock Exposé”) for displaying an App’s windows
- Chinese character input on trackpad
- Mail up to 2.3x faster
- Final version of Safari 4 released for Leopard, Tiger and Windows
- Safari now sandboxes plugins to prevent them crashing the browser (IMHO this means you, Google 🙂
- Stacks now have scrolling
- Page through, magnify PDF thumbnails and movies
- QuickTime X focuses on the content, overlays controls, lets you select from a visual timeline more easily and share it on YouTube, MobileMe or iTunes.
- All Snow Leopard applications are 64-bit
- Grand Central Dispatch supports multicore across all of Snow Leopard
- Open CL (Computing Language) has been open sourced and allows for hardware abstraction of the video hardware for use in processing or display
- Upgrade cost US$29 or US$49 for upgrading the Leopard family pack
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