Well, we are about a week or so into Apple’s new operating system release, Snow Leopard, and all we’ve gotten are wallpapers and disk space. It certainly has been an interesting announcement and release, as people on the Internet have been discussing the price and whether it even constitutes a new operating system at all. But that’s neither here nor there. And while I’ve gotten my hands on a copy of Snow Leopard for only $10 (through the Up To Date program), I have yet to install it. I certainly have reasons for this, but I also wanted to provide my thoughts on the popular consensus of this release.

As we approach the release of Snow Leopard, Apple continues to send new betas to developers to fix all the existing issues. One of the latest releases—10A402—contains some user interface improvements on top of the bug fixes. Apple has mostly been advertising this version of their operating system as a speed update with less of a footprint on your hard drive, so it is nice to see some UI improvements, even if they are minor.