I always love John's OSX reviews; I've been hitting refresh compulsively for the last few days, reloading the URL where it would be.
What I find interesting is what he chooses to cover and not cover- The review is 23 pages, which is quite a codex, but choices had to be made.. There is a page dedicated to the specifics of GCD's C interface, but only a paragraph about the revised Services design.
In all, I think that Ars does a wonderful job with these reviews, and like 10.6 itself, a lot of the depth is built on top of previous (excellent) releases.
For example, we know that John thinks the hybrid finder, which is neither Spacial or truly a file browser, is a strange beast, and he's linked to his epic discussions about the finder in the past. In this review, all that is needed is discussing the changes that bring us into SL, and the review does that well.
I've joked to my friends before that sometimes I'm more excited about the Ars review of a new release than I am about actually installing it, and the new version delivers as promised.
Snow Leopard looks to be doing a great job in laying the foundation for the next few years of OSX- It's interesting to watch how the relationship between the iPhone and Mac code continues to evolve.
What I find interesting is what he chooses to cover and not cover- The review is 23 pages, which is quite a codex, but choices had to be made.. There is a page dedicated to the specifics of GCD's C interface, but only a paragraph about the revised Services design.
In all, I think that Ars does a wonderful job with these reviews, and like 10.6 itself, a lot of the depth is built on top of previous (excellent) releases. For example, we know that John thinks the hybrid finder, which is neither Spacial or truly a file browser, is a strange beast, and he's linked to his epic discussions about the finder in the past. In this review, all that is needed is discussing the changes that bring us into SL, and the review does that well.
I've joked to my friends before that sometimes I'm more excited about the Ars review of a new release than I am about actually installing it, and the new version delivers as promised.
Snow Leopard looks to be doing a great job in laying the foundation for the next few years of OSX- It's interesting to watch how the relationship between the iPhone and Mac code continues to evolve.