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Snow Leopard is the top Amazon pre-order

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We're eagerly awaiting Snow Leopard at the TUAW offices, and we're not alone. It's currently the number 1 pre-order item at Amazon. While there's no official release date available, Amazon notes that...

Upgrade Strategy: Get Ready for Snow Leopard

Snow Leopard’s release is just around the corner, so here are some quick and easy steps to make sure that you are ready to upgrade. Turn On Time Machine If you haven’t already, now is a great time to turn on the Time Machine built in backup. It’s not perfect, but it’s a great first line of...

A Look At the Upcoming OS Family Packs From Apple and Microsoft

As more and more households have multiple PCs, the idea of a “family pack” (i.e., a piece of software with multiple licenses for use) makes a lot of sense. Since Apple and Microsoft are set to release new versions of their respective operating systems this fall (Apple’s Snow Leopard in September, Microsoft’s Windows 7 in...

Snow Leopard, Finely tuned

SnowLeopard - Finely Tuned

While PC users sweat, complain and ponder which over-priced version of Windows 7 they’ll be forced into buying to fix everything wrong with Vista; most Mac users are likely licking their chops at what Snow Leopard will bring, and how little it will...

A Closer Look At Apple’s Icons

As a follow up to my article on the hidden gems of Apple’s design and inspired by the comments that you, the readers, left, I wanted to take a closer look at some of the icons of OS X. The second part of this article is where I’m going to go in depth into some...

Week in Apple: Palm Pre on iTunes, iTablet rumors, Snow Leopard

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Apple Issues Developer Updates for iPhone 3.1, Snow Leopard Preview

Yesterday evening was a red-letter night for Apple developers, especially if you happened to have both Mac and iPhone developer accounts. That’s because Apple dropped new builds of both iPhone OS 3.1, and Snow Leopard, bringing it to version 10A411. Users with an iPhone developer account can head to Apple’s Developer Connection website and get...

Ask TUAW: OpenCL support in Snow Leopard, Boot Camp, automatic importing into iPhoto, and more

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Wednesday means it's time for another Ask TUAW! For this edition we've got questions about what Macs will support Snow Leopard's forthcoming OpenCL acceleration, using Boot Camp with multiple partitions, connecting a Mac mini to HDMI,...

Snow Leopard in Depth: Grand Central Dispatch

At the beginning of the decade, Intel was imagining that by 2010 it would have processors with over 1 billion transistors running at a clock speed of 20GHz. As we move into the second half of 2009, the reality is that we will soon have 3GHz mobile chips with four cores on them and 2010...

Windows 7 Pricing vs. Mac OS X: Why Even Go There?

Windows 7 pricing was made official not long ago, and the general consensus is that, despite a slight drop in Home Premium pricing compared to Vista, it’s too expensive. Still, there are some in the Microsoft community that try to justify it by comparing it to Apple’s pricing for Mac OS X. Microsoft can never win...