I was wondering why this time Apple decided to “officialize” the release of an OS X version a year before…
Snow Leopard… The official page is here.
As you can read: “Core Innovation”, the word “innovation” would make you think of new features, but it’s core innovation, so, Apple (most innovative company for many years) used in a very smart way the word innovation to tell us the OS will be the same (”Taking a break from adding new features, Snow Leopard”), but it will receive a lot of improvements (”Mac OS X, enhance its performance, and set new standards for quality”).
Then Apple reminds us of the innovation the company bring since 2001 and then “Mac OS X changes more than its spots, it changes focus”, it makes me think that Apple will now focus on Intel processors only.
Another sentence that makes it more than probable that Snow Leopard will only work for Intel based computers: “Snow Leopard dramatically reduces the footprint of Mac OS X, making it even more efficient for users, and giving them back valuable hard drive space for their music and photos.”
How will OS X give you back valuable hard drive space? By taking of the Universal applications for the system, and replacing them by Intel (only) ones.

So the aim of that page is to officialize the fact there will be a New Operating System; no more PPC support; no new features; optimized system.

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