Mac OS X 10.6: Snow Leopard update and features

Apple are hard at work on a new test build for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, the new test build—10A354 update comes with a host of new features, all with one thing in mind, faster and smother for the user. What are these news features?

Ars Technica has been taking a closer look, the update sees an end to API changes, instead Apple have been working on the bug fixes and improving the overall performance with some optimizations.

One of the new features on Mac OS X 10.6 involves the version of Boot Camp supplied with Snow Leopard; this will now include HFS+ drivers for Windows. This means that direct read and write access is now available to Mac-formatted drives when it is booted into Windows.

System Profiler is another new feature, this means that the that built-in 3G networking could finally be coming to new or revised Macs much sooner than we first thought.