Mac OS X Snow Leopard Build 10A432 Designated 'Golden Master'

[matticus008]

Meaning that someone 'could' work on R600 compatibility? If so this work would be a driver update perhaps by either ATI / Apple or both?

Meaning that the R600 is an obsolete product and ongoing development is occurring only on current-generation hardware, so no one is likely to try, even if it is possible to code around the R600's limitations (and it probably isn't, but I don't know). AMD has never made any mention of R600-based products in its OpenCL presentations, and when the manufacturer ignores an old product, everyone else tends to as well.

I don't know enough about ATI's products to know for sure, but I do know that the R600 has substantially different programmable shader hardware than the R700 and GeForce 8/9, and that may well disqualify them from ever being OpenCL-compatible.

Sorry if I got your hopes up--I was trying to do the opposite!

 

[avidmacuser]

Meaning that the R600 is an obsolete product and ongoing development is occurring only on current-generation hardware, so no one is likely to try, even if it is possible to code around the R600's limitations (and it probably isn't, but I don't know). AMD has never made any mention of R600-based products in its OpenCL presentations, and when the manufacturer ignores an old product, everyone else tends to as well.

I don't know enough about ATI's products to know for sure, but I do know that the R600 has substantially different programmable shader hardware than the R700 and GeForce 8/9, and that may well disqualify them from ever being OpenCL-compatible.

Sorry if I got your hopes up--I was trying to do the opposite!

Understood, thanks.

 

[King Crimson]

Thanx!

No, it shouldn't make a difference where you buy it, since the system disc includes all available localizations. The printed manuals will probably lack a German translation, but who cares...Are you sure it'll be that much cheaper though ? Maybe you could profit from a German student rebate or something?

it's the "same" price 29$ vs 29EUR (MacOS) and 169$ vs 169EUR (Mac Box) ...

Are you planning on buying the Mac Box set or iLife/iWork and the SL-upgrade seperately ?

EDIT: Never mind my question about you being a student - looking at your profile, I guess you're not.

Depends, if it'll be released in time, I'll by the Mac Box, if not, I'll get iWork / iLife.

Anyway, thanx for Your reply!

Cheers!

 

[MacAndy74]

Great news on the Golden Master - hope Apple took their time before declaring the milestone. Can't wait for my copy to arrive! I will be installing it right away.

 

[shoorty0690]

I wonder if they'll clump their September releases together, or stagger them through out the month. Hopefully it starts with OS3.1, then moves to iPod Touches, then OS 10.6. The iPhone 3GS needs an update more than Leopard...

 

[bigrasmusdk]

I wonder if it's already out on torrent sites

 

[ata]

to burst your bubbles but wait wow I can't believe I said that too lazy to backspace but yet still typing anywho, 10A432 is not GM.

How do you know this?

 

[riws]

Wow, that is weird; so Apple has a 64bit driver for 950 with Snow Leopard but no X3100? The last time I had a look, there are three components to a driver, one of them was 64bit, and the other 2 were 32bit. It seems strange they would make one part 64bit and leave the rest 32bit.

Only the Graphics Library (OpenGL) part (GA is part of this, so its 32/64bit too) is 32/64bit, its to run 64bit Apps in 32bit Mode, even in Leopard its so.

AppleIntelGMAX3100GLDriver: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures
AppleIntelGMAX3100GLDriver (for architecture x86_64): Mach-O 64-bit bundle x86_64
AppleIntelGMAX3100GLDriver (for architecture i386): Mach-O bundle i386

 

[MikePA]

If you're running Leopard: Here's an idiotic usability bug that I filed on 10.5.1. It was quickly flagged as a duplicate. 7 Updates later, nothing has changed...

Try opening a multi-page PDF file and then press Shift-Command-F (for a full-screen slideshow). Now click on the arrow pointing to the right and see if you advance to the next page .

Hint: Now press play, wait till it automatically advances to the next page and then go back. Suddenly the rightward-arrow works.

Don't you also have to rub your stomach and pat your head, too? Talk about an esoteric yet devastating bug.

 

[andy721]

How do you know this?

I know all.

 

[gothamm]

im sorry...but where is the evidence that this is GM.


i mean, i know its macrumors, but there must be something that leads them to believe this

 

[AppleMatt]

No. OpenCL is only supported on a limited range of relatively modern GPUs.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html

The Radeon HD 2600, an R600-based product [2007], doesn't qualify. The ATI models that are supported are R700-based [2008-2009]. As implemented, nVidia products have compatible GPUs that are far older (ATI at the time was working on similar but incompatible GPGPU technologies). nVidia hardware from both the 8 and 9 series is supported, stretching back to the 2007 MacBook Pros.

Do you know anything about the 8800 GS? It's not listed by Apple, but (as I understand) it's a repackaged 8800 GTS, and NVIDIA list it as Cuda compatible. What's weird is that it's not at the bottom spec wise - other 8800's that are lower spec are supported. I'm quite confused.

I've found a few things saying it will be supported, but not backed up by proof or a good enough technical explanation.

I'd just like to know.

 

[melchior]

im sorry...but where is the evidence that this is GM.


i mean, i know its macrumors, but there must be something that leads them to believe this

If you're after an official apple press release announcing GM status, that is never going to happen. The best sign you will get is when apple allows ordering from their own store.

Both gizmodo and macrumor sources have indicated that it has gone GM, if true this means that a somewhat small group of developers should receive the seed, at a guess, friday. Assuming the source for MR and giz are not the same source, it can be considered independent confirmation.

The name of every source cannot be revealed in journalism otherwise a lot of people would lose their jobs, be imprisoned or executed... If jobs had his way, he'd like choose the third option. (see chinese foxconn employee...)

 

[twoodcc]

apple might be on time with a release date this go around!

 

[Krafty]

CS3 already works on Snow Leopard. With no problems at all.

Not for me.

 

[deceiver]

The name of every source cannot be revealed in journalism otherwise a lot of people would lose their jobs, be imprisoned or executed... If jobs had his way, he'd like choose the third option. (see chinese foxconn employee...)

LOL that killed me!

 

[Anaemik]

Haven't read the whole thread so forgive me if this has been mentioned already, but would it be reasonable to expect the shipping version to include the HFS driver for Windows that I heard Apple was releasing for the latest version of Bootcamp?

Was that driver available in the latest developer release?

 

[vert]

Haven't read the whole thread so forgive me if this has been mentioned already, but would it be reasonable to expect the shipping version to include the HFS driver for Windows that I heard Apple was releasing for the latest version of Bootcamp?

Was that driver available in the latest developer release?

I believe it was*, not a 100% sure though. Can't check it now as I've gotten rid of XP yesterday to get back hdd-space

*edit: that's in 421a

 

[dr. shdw]

What has Intel got to do with it - Apple maintains the driver.

Oh, and btw, enjoy your Nvidia product that dies every 6months.

I'd sooner have a 'slow POS IGP from Intel' than having a product that dies every 6months from nvidia.

Out of about 100 macs (MBs/MPs/iMacs/MBPs) I've bought in the past 2 years, only 1 suffered from the GPU issue, a 2007 MBP I think. The rest are fine..

 

[techfreak85]

Can't wait to get it and do a clean install on my MBP. Leopard has been giving me a really hard time lately, it's been quite sluggish. I look forward to the performance improvements.

iNeed to desperately as well.
trying to hold off until SL.

 

[brad.c]

CS3 already works on Snow Leopard. With no problems at all.

Not for me.

If I remember the Leopard release correctly, I guess we wait for release day to find out Adobe's patch upgrade schedule for official Snow Leopard compatibility. Hopefully it'll be before 2010.

I'm on CS4 now, having just got the all-clear from my printers. Curious (and horribly OT), but are you guys holding back for stability issues?

 

[Xavier]

Snow Leopard! Super excited!

 

[Electrolytic]

yip yip yahoo!!!

 

[ata]

im sorry...but where is the evidence that this is GM.


i mean, i know its macrumors, but there must be something that leads them to believe this

They can't come right out and say who their primary sources are, for obvious reasons. If they say they have gotten confirmation from multiple sources familiar with these matters, I believe them.

 

[amt2002]

I've just registered for a Snow Leopard Up To Date CD from Apple, can anyone tell me if I could instead install this copy on my iMac instead of my Macbook Pro it's eligible for?

Any idea if it will be 'tied' to the MBP?

Thanks