Apple has seeded developers with another build (10A402) of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Here are some of the changes:
- Exposé now behaves correctly when using multiple monitors, with windows remaining on their own monitors in Exposé instead of all being collected on the primary monitor.
- Third-party System Preferences panes are now functional.
- Reports of battery life lasting significantly longer than under previous Snow Leopard builds. This has not been confirmed with tests.
- Reports of greater system responsiveness and significant increases in speed system wide. Both Startup and shutdown times have improved greatly.
- The Finder window slider button used to adjust icon sizes, is now a grey color instead of the aqua blue button as before.
- The theme of contextual menus for the Dock when using list view, have been drastically changed. The menus now have a theme of white text on a black/charcoal background.
The bulk of the information in this article comes from MacRumors’ original report from a few days ago. I’m excited to see what else lurks in Snow Leopard, which is due for release in September.
Images courtesy of MacRumors.
