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ExposГ© and Spaces merged into MissionВ Control, and both became more useful in the process. Auto-Save and Versioning for documents were introduced as a supplement to Time Machine capabilities, though Save AsвЂ¦ was sacrificed for the cause. The home folder in the Sidebar has disappeared. The primacy of Search taking precedence over browsing the filesystem is complete, as the default Finder window opens to a new вЂњAll My FilesвЂќ view. With Lion Apple brought the lessions of iOS вЂњBack to the MacвЂќ. Lion represented a major stepВ forward, installing via download rather than DVDs, dropping all support for PowerPC software, and implementing interface elements popularized on iPads and iPhones. Apple has been trying to kill off the filesystem for years, have they finally succeeded? iOS leads the way.

Under Lion, among other changes, search becomes the primary way the Finder encourages you to interact with your system, and browsing hard drives becomes secondary. Snow Leopard was a very capable, comprehensive release which powered the MacвЂ™s strongest period of growth to date.

That makes this version a milestone for backwards compatibility. And of interest to long time Mac users, Snow Leopard was the final OS X release that can runВ Power-PC software on Intel Macs (thanks to Rosetta).

Noticeably different to longterm Mac users is how the filesystem continues to get deprecated relative to search: the boot disk (internal hard drive) no longer appears on the desktop by default.

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The full suite of iLife apps gets prime placement in the Dock, along with the new (and surprisingly controversial) iTunes icon. Underscoring AppleвЂ™s desire to get users to move to this release, the usual $129 price was dropped to $29.ДЇeatures and benefits are evolutionary.В TheВ FinderВ (finally) gets rewritten as a Cocoa app, MS Exchange Support is added to Mail, and the trackpad comes to desktop Macs.

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It was billed by Apple as a maintenance upgrade to Leopard: no major features, just under-the-hood improvements. Snow Leopard was the MacвЂ™s first Intel-only release, dropping support for PowerPC machines. Automator, Core Image and Core Video joined the arsenal of underlying technologies, and Brushed Aluminum dominated the interface. As the first release for Intel systems Apple introduced Rosetta, a translation layer to allow old PowerPC code to run on Intel chips. Tiger was the last release which supported Classic mode on PowerPC Macs. As Spotlight and search capabilities in general evolve they are replacing the filesystem as the primary way we locate information on our computers. The latter was a mixed blessing under Tiger, definitely a rev 1 release, but pointed the way to the future for Apple.

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After this release Apple slowed down rate of OS X upgrades to no more than once every 18 months, largely at the request of developers who were having trouble keeping up.ДЎ0.4 introduced Dashboard to the masses вЂ“ similar to Desk Accessories from the Classic Mac OS вЂ“ and replaced Sherlock Find with the heavily hyped Spotlight. Tiger spent about two and a half years on the market and spanned the MacвЂ™s transition from PowerPC to Intel processors.

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The look and feel of the OS also started to evolve at this time, with Apple utilizing a mixed use of AquaвЂ™s striped transparency and iTunesвЂ™ Brushed Aluminum themes.ДЄppleвЂ™s next big cat spent the longest time on the prowl of any Mac OS X release to date. Safari, AppleвЂ™s new web browser, was introduced as an alternative if Microsoft discontinued Internet Explorer for Macintosh shortly after release, Microsoft killed Explorer for Mac. The iLife suite and Digital Hub concepts made their debut as this time, the iPhoto icon was added to dock and the iTunes icon changed to purple. Rendezvous appears with this release, a TCP/IP equivalent of AppleTalk.

Jaguar offered notableВ performanceВ improvements, better printing options, and introduced Quartz Extreme graphics. 10.2 was the default boot choice on new Macs, and was the first to publicly use the development code name for marketing вЂ“ the name вЂњJaguarвЂќ leaked out before launch, and people liked it, so Apple capitalized on the term. Jaguar was the first truly popular Mac OS X release, and most longtime Mac users made the jump to OS X with this version.

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