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Mac OS X 'Snow Leopard' to Focus on Performance, Quality
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well leopard came out in october and 10.6 will come out in over a year
dont you remember when osx had a major revision like every year?
this is hardly new and relatively long for osx releases
I hope that they flesh out the sandbox facility in 10.6. Opening up the sandbox language to make it easy for users and developers to write their own sandbox scripts will go a very long way in correcting Leopard's current security shortcomings.
That and tighten up ASLR.
That and tighten up ASLR.
New features? The emphasis in this release is on work inside of the kernel. There will be very little (if anything) on the surface that will stand out to end users.
EDIT: That is not to say that the upgrade won't be worth it. Expect to see a lot of software that will require 10.6 because of these new underlying technologies and improvements.
^ theres no new 'features' in Snow Leopard. it will focus on speed, stability, security and be Intel only.
there are however some 'features' shown on apple.com/macosx/snowleopard
there are however some 'features' shown on apple.com/macosx/snowleopard
Leopard isn't that bad.
More like Apple painted themselves into a corner with that sticky stuff inside D-Con mouse traps.
This will give them a chance to fix some of the mistakes they made, and rewrite a lot of the underpinnings of the OS.
More like the Carbon rewrite Apple did awhile ago.
During the Worldwide Developer Conference Keynote today, Apple previewed OS 10.6 "Snow Leopard." True to rumors, the release will focus on performance rather than new features.
A new technology called "Grand Central" will make it easy for developers to create programs that take full advantage of the power of multi-core Macs. Also introduced is Open Computing Language (OpenCL), which extends the computing power of the GPU to any application written with OpenCL commands. Snow Leopard will also raise the software limit for RAM to 16 TB.
Also introduced is Quicktime X, which "optimizes support for modern audio and video formats resulting in extremely efficient media playback." Safari will also be receiving an optimized Javascript rendering engine (previously rumored) that will increase performance by 53%.
Beyond speed enhancements, Snow Leopard will also include out-of-the-box support for Microsoft Exchange 2007. Apple is aiming for the software to ship in "about a year."
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It is sad that my mac's cpu is just G4 400, so to install 10.5 is just a dream, of cause, to have a mac was also a dream to me several years ago.
its a good thing leopard is a really nice os
if leopard sucked and snowleopard was god like there would be a huge backlash by powerpc guys
if leopard sucked and snowleopard was god like there would be a huge backlash by powerpc guys
Reports are that most applications are smaller in size. Snow Leopard will be less bloated.
I would want this on a new mac pro or MBP and see how blazing fast it would be compared to my current iMac
Chris
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