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Schiller to Demo Snow Leopard at Macworld?
![]() The Guardian claims that Apple and its partners have been privately dropping hints to developers that Mac OS X Snow Leopard will ship earlier than expected and suggests that Phil Schiller will show it off at Macworld. The article also recaps the advantages of both Grand Central and OpenCL which will be introduced with the new operating system: Quote:
Article Link: Schiller to Demo Snow Leopard at Macworld? |
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Uh... if this WASN'T going to happen, we could safely assume that Apple has completely given up on their computers...
I still say WWDC release, though. I'd rather they not rush the darn thing. |
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Hmmm...First revision of Macbook Pro with better processor and now Snow Leopard? It's looking more and more like I'll be purchasing a Macbook Pro this spring!
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It wouldn't surprise me if this happens. I'd hope for something a bit bigger but it's obvious that it won't be happening now.
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Looking forward to the demo, I know I'll want to buy it but I don't know why yet!
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I assume this'll just be a performance demo then? A whole "look how fast and efficient OS X is".
Looking forward to it though. Like to see the progress.
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Willl Safari NOW feel snappier ;-) ?
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I'm curious about what they'll show off, as well. If it's just Leopard, but faster, I think it'll be hard to demo. "Look, Safari is snappier! See? And look, Activity Monitor!" Regardless, I'll still want it. I just think it might be tough to wow the crowd.
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maybe they'll release a public beta after the keynote
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And my MWSF predictions? Cinema Displays, Mac mini, iPhone talk, sales talk etc., Snow Leopard talk, maybe iLife/iWork '09 (maybe they'll have Snow Leopard optimizations). iMac update only if it's significant (quad-core desktop CPUs).
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I hope that Snow Leopard shows the same performance boosts that Leopard showed over Tiger.
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My prediction. . .
is that Phil Schiller will be making several BIG announcements. I'm giving you all the specificity of a typical TV psychic. There will be "several" and they will be "big."
The last time I saw Jobs speak, he acted more as a master of ceremonies (or emcee or MC, to you youngsters!) than as the one-man show he used to do. He trotted up many others to discuss different things. Also, there have been many of these big speeches that have been duds, partly because nothing really exciting was revealed and partly because the rumor mill was exactly right and stole Jobs' thunder. My psychic revelation is based on the idea that if Apple wants to pull off this changing of the guard (at least replacing Jobs as the public face of Apple), they have to give Schiller some killer material to ease the sting of not seeing our hero. |
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Referring to this article. It's incredible that an app as simple iCal has a file size of 89 megabytes! My first harddisk (Amiga) had a total capacity of 20 mb. On it, I had an entire OS, DTP WYSIWYG software, WordProcessor, DeluxePaint, lotsa fonts, several utilities, pictures, music etc. etc. oh, and several megabytes of free space as well.
I know everything was way simpler and smaller back then, but, iCal 89 mb... No wonder why modern computers, despite their "supercomputer-class"-processors, ultra-fast gigabytes of RAM and super-speedy harddrives have longer boot times than my 20 years old Amiga system had. Kinda sad, really. I think Apples "clean-up/optimization"-Snow Leopard-mission is going to make a huge difference. Never have I looked more forward to a new version of OS X than this time. ![]() Update: I just realised that the current version of TextEdit would not have fit on my entire Amiga HD. TextEdit! 22 mb! Sad. Sloppy.
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I'm will you all the way here! a rough calculation says that you'll save 505 MB of disk space. Of course application start time will be much better! Now, can we get Snow Leopard down below 700 MB? I doubt it, but I think it is worth a try albeit and expensive endeavor. I think parsimonious code is stronger and more robust. Cinch |
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exactly what i was/am thinking!
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Of course, with rumor it's now likely there will be a good bit of presentation on it (and Phil's a good guy to do it, he seems more technical than Jobs, who's more than willing to say "I don't know what that is, but it sounds like a good thing"). jW
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I can deal with a new aspect of the GUI being buggy or a new app that doesn't work. I don't want to have to sit for a week without a computer because when I installed 10.6, I installed a broken Finder and a Grand Central station with a cross-wired switchboard. |
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If you suffered through Entourage, you'd want it out asap.
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i wonder...
Is OpenCL written to harness the extra GPU grunt of the first-gen Ati cards or only the more recent ones?
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