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Apple's New "Snow Leopard" Update is a Lot Like The Past

People remember Snow Leopard as the release that made Leopard faster. That’s true, but it misses the bigger story. PowerPC compatibility was fading away. Old game consoles running PowerPC CPUs still proudly chugged along, but macOS had to move from a clunky and literally hot architecture. Snow Leopard wasn’t merely an update, it was part of the next decade of Apple computing. Signaling a new era.

Apple calls their newest “27” OSes a “refinement release” but that phrase could not be more rephrased as “the one time Apple made a Snow Leopard for IOS” and the comparison goes beyond performance improvements. This release arrives as Apple draws a harder line around what it considers a modern device. The clearest example is Apple Intelligence. For the first time, Apple is treating an AI assistant with more capabilities. A more personal Siri called Siri AI will make documents, messages, workflows, search, and do everyday tasks for you.

Was the Apple TV HD worth it?

It sounds funny that you’d volunteer to use the Apple TV HD when it is so old (and only just recently made it fully to the unsupported product list), but I actually have been enjoying it. I think of it more as an entry into Apple ecosystem apps that ever grow on the platform. If you’ve ever wanted to use Trakt or Letterboxd on the big screen, now you can! Do you use Infuse on iPhone, Mac or iPad? It’s a simple $30 1080p streamer with great Apple ecosystem connections and good, occasionally laggy, performance.

As I probably said the last time, it is all many people need. Back in 2024, I was using the same Mac I still use today, and I said “It fills the needs of students who often buy expensive devices they never fully use or understand just because it’s an Apple device, or just what they needed for school, when all they may do all day is read PDFs and do schoolwork” and the MacBook Neo was a great example of that exact premise. It seems that over time, a lot of, even some of the oldest Apple devices, end up working great years into their lifetime.

Things are running on a new server

I have a new server running Invidious, SearXNG, (and more to come).

I have bit the metaphorical bullet and spent a little more to get a server with 96 gigs of RAM, double the CPU capacity and more storage. I needed to upgrade, and the next upgrade was close to this amount, just not as obsensely specced as the current machine. Like I said, I only did it to try and improve the reliability of your connection to my services, although, not exactly without more cost of course. So if you can, donate to my instance so it can stay on as long as possible.