Apple Released Snow Leopard Build 10A402, while it’s unknown what exactly it entails, it does raise the question of whether this will be the final update of Snow Leopard before the release in the fall. The most obvious thing we noticed was the massive size of the update at 1.31 GB. 9to5Mac reports that this is the largest thing that has ever hit Software Updater. While the file size is large, the actual description is rather small, “This Snow Leopard Developer Preview Update is recommended for all users running the Snow Leopard Developer Preview Build 10A394 or later. This update includes general operating system fixes for stability, compatibility, and security.”
TheMacFeed will have plenty more coverage of the Snow Leopard release as well as a guide before the September release date. Just one note, if you were wondering how much an upgrade will cost for a computer purchased this summer, all purchases after June 8th can be upgraded for $9.95, whereas current Leopard users pay $29.
Edit: MacRumors is reporting that there are numerous visual tweaks and other enhancements in this build, most notably that Apple has begun to use a charcoal background on contextual menus, similar to what was expected to be the overall UI before Snow Leopard’s progress was updated earlier this year. In addition buttons on the finder pane have moved from blue to gray. Quicktime was upgraded to version 10.0, battery life for notebooks has increased, Exposé has been fixed to run correctly when using multiple monitors and users are reporting an overall improvement of the system in terms of both responsiveness and speed.
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