14 DAY TRIAL // An eagle-eyed reader over at Macbidouille (English version – Hardmac) has spotted changes in the way Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard counts the storage space used by a volume. Interestingly, Apple moved to adopt the base 10 counting in Snow Leopard, as revealed by two comparison screenshots taken by the reader in question.
Thanking Vincent for the screen captures, Hardmac reveals that the first screenshot has been taken on Snow Leopard, while the second one was taken on Leopard.
To avoid confusion, we remind our readers that Snow Leopard is, indeed, still under development, and hasn’t been officially released. However, developer builds have been known to float on the Internet for quite a while, the latest of which (Build 10A380) makes no exception. Most likely, Build 10A380 of Snow Leopard was used to capture the screenshot in question, while the version of OS X 10.5 Leopard used for the second screen-capture is unknown.
“As you can see, Snow Leopard is now counting in base 10 for defining the storage space used/available on the selected volume,” the report continues to outline. “This is the same procedure used by HD manufacturer, were [sic.] 1 MB = 1,000 KB, instead of 1024 MB...,” the source says.
“We’ve built on the success of Leopard and created an even better experience for our users from installation to shutdown,” Bertrand Serlet, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering, pinpointed. “Apple engineers have made hundreds of improvements, so with Snow Leopard your system is going to feel faster, more responsive and even more reliable than before.”
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