Apple posts details about Snow Leopard

It's a little misleading to say bug fixes only--they're introducing a bunch of new core technologies (can't say anything else, since it's all under NDA).

And focussing on performance is a great idea--when has any company ever had the backbone to do that before, in a major software release?

Is anyone else quite disappointed in this announcement? I was not happy with my Tiger->Leopard upgrade, and Snow Leopard is simply... Apple fixing Leopard. Making OS X a stable OS (again)... Snow Leopard is going to be what Leopard should have been in the first place.

I'm pretty excited, actually. There are a lot of rough edges on the operating system that affect me, one of which is the support for FireWire audio interfaces using the standard built-in Core Audio driver.

It's not a new feature, it's an existing feature, but for me the experience is painful. It's not sexy but it's smart and it's not like they were going to release a new feature-filled OS by next year anyway. Better to have a solid base on which to innovate even further later down the road.

I think they said it'll be the first 64-bit Mac OS. So, hey, good on 'em.

no. leopard is already 64-bit, today.