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Story: Why you should care about Apple's Snow Leopard

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Trite, oversimplified article.

This is a truly awful article. Full of sweeping misstatements and damning with faint praise. One example to call out:

"The first thing to know is that this is not a complete overhaul of Mac OS X. Rather, it is a series of small to medium-sized improvements: what Apple calls "refinements"."

Well you see, there you go, 10.6 is actually a complete overhaul of the OS. Completely rewritten from the ground up to allow for full 64-bit operation while still letting you run 32-bit apps might sound "like a series of small to medium-sized improvements" but is actually a seriously significant change.

I think what this author was aiming at was that the changes were not cosmetic probably to allow herself to trumpet how wonderful "let's fix Vista again", Windows 7 will be when launched.

Shoddy, trite and cheap journalism and not what we expect from ZDNET UK.

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