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Mac OS X 'Snow Leopard' to Focus on Performance, Quality
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Too bad they are integrating Exchange into it then. How pure is it then? Just don't eat the yellow snow then I guess...
Yeah, I'll probably buy it, but I'm a sucker for new Operating System technology. Most people aren't. Most people don't know what an Operating System does or how it does what it is doing and moreover, they don't care. So Apple is going to have to think of something to convince the average technophobic user to spend $130 for "nothing new, just bugfixes."
Yes but Grand Central, OpenCL, Quicktime X and native Exchange 2007 will be new API. If they were just fixes then I'd say that we could call this a service pack but quite honestly there are substantive updates to the OS that go beyond a mere bug fix/optimization release.
Quit reading into the name!
Guys, snow leopard is a type of animal. A really neat one. But the idea of some symbolic meaning of "snow" or whatever is as realistic as normal leopards having to do with time machines. It's just a name, they were probably just looking for a cat that still had "leopard" in it's name since there are no new features. "Snow" means nothing!
Guys, snow leopard is a type of animal. A really neat one. But the idea of some symbolic meaning of "snow" or whatever is as realistic as normal leopards having to do with time machines. It's just a name, they were probably just looking for a cat that still had "leopard" in it's name since there are no new features. "Snow" means nothing!
ATI and nvidia have better on board video then intel and Intel video gpu that is part of the cpu may not work as good as the ati one. Also apple needs to up the ram in systems 1gb with on board video is to low go to 2gb and add a real video card.
um...
if it is any more than $49.99 for leopard users, it will sit on the shelves.
How are they going to sell this?
"New! Snow Leopard! Just as purrrfect as Leopard, but with all the sloppy code re-written and the major bugs fixed! Also support for Exchange that iphone users got for free last year! Also, support for that powerrrrrful intel integrated graphics chip we put in our $1500 laptops in 2008! Only $129.99! Don't forget, Vista is so expensive!"
Imagine how much stink you'd hear if MS charged 100 bucks or more for service packs...a new QuickTime is nice and all, but what we have right now is so far behind more modern options that it is a joke. You'll probably still have to pay 29 bucks for the Pro version to use any of the non-playback features.
if it is any more than $49.99 for leopard users, it will sit on the shelves.
How are they going to sell this?
"New! Snow Leopard! Just as purrrfect as Leopard, but with all the sloppy code re-written and the major bugs fixed! Also support for Exchange that iphone users got for free last year! Also, support for that powerrrrrful intel integrated graphics chip we put in our $1500 laptops in 2008! Only $129.99! Don't forget, Vista is so expensive!"
Imagine how much stink you'd hear if MS charged 100 bucks or more for service packs...a new QuickTime is nice and all, but what we have right now is so far behind more modern options that it is a joke. You'll probably still have to pay 29 bucks for the Pro version to use any of the non-playback features.
I believe that the afternoon sessions are not public and are under NDA. So they should be good sources for more rumors, but not live coverage.
looking forward to this! about a year means this time next year though, and not early 2009. oh well
I like the idea of Snow Leopard. I will gladly wait for a faster, more stable OS in place of more bloated features. Now with Spotlight and Timemachine, I don't need much more than that.
Remember back to the days of OS8? Now that was a snappy OS.
Now for something completely different...
Is this in reference to the Space Ghost Coast to Coast episode with "Chambrain: Shampoo for the brain"?
Remember back to the days of OS8? Now that was a snappy OS.
Now for something completely different...
Is this in reference to the Space Ghost Coast to Coast episode with "Chambrain: Shampoo for the brain"?
Always wondered why
just doesn't integrate QuickTime and QuickLook. More integration within the OS is good. Leopard already does this to a certain extent.Hate to say it, however performance stability and features should have been 10.5 focus. Rather
decided to focus on features and place performance and stability in the back seat.Anyone remember Resolution Independent (RI) that was supposed to be included in 10.5. Well here we will see it in 10.6, seems
required more time. However rather than being caught delayed for another 6 months to release 10.5 they decided to release it as is and patch up things later with 10.6.I hope so, it would only make sense as "performance and stability" were supposed to be part of 10.5 to begin with. 10.5 was a rush job to calm the customers and crowds and to show its leap frog technology against Vista.
There could be another possibility that
has run out of any great features to add in 10.6, so the best solution is to place a hold on it and focus on other areas that were supposed to be part of the original release to begin with.By the looks of it,
chose Intel for its mobility aspect and its is focusing its OS in the same direction to complement each other.If 10.6 is not going to take a page from the 10.0 --> 10.1 book, I will be skipping it and focus on 10.7 instead.
"optimized for multi-core processors" does not mean 4+ cores only. Since apple no longer ships any machines with single-core chips, I suspect this is just buzz-word compliance. If 10.6 supports PPC, then Grand Central would also help with dual-cpu PPC machines. (Programatically speaking, there is NO difference between two single-core CPUs and one dual-core CPU. dual-core is cheaper to produce, and although dual-cpu can have effectively twice the memory bandwidth, the better cache utilization of dual-core would be faster for most applications)
Snow is also often used as street slang for cocaine... maybe it's a cocaine reference.
This should be a solid year of wild speculation. Looking forward to it.
It's not worth it. The thing is (even though I dislike microsoft) exchange is an amazing platform, which took tons of iterations to get to where it is. With things like unified messenging between phone systems and resource/location features and just general collaboration, it's not really worth anyone getting into. It'd take them years and is not really in the apple "way."
If they were really that serious about getting into this kind of market, Apple would have included exchange stuff (more than the non-working features they have now) in Leopard and maybe even Tiger.
Makes me glad I never bothered to upgrade to leopard
Unlike Leopard, Snow Leopard sounds like it provides some benefits actually worth paying for. More speed and stability are always good things. Exchange support is awesome and long overdue. I will not be going to Entourage's funeral. Many us in the corporate world will be syncing our iPhones with Exchange, not MobileMe.
Unlike Leopard, Snow Leopard sounds like it provides some benefits actually worth paying for. More speed and stability are always good things. Exchange support is awesome and long overdue. I will not be going to Entourage's funeral. Many us in the corporate world will be syncing our iPhones with Exchange, not MobileMe.
I don't think it's buzzword complient talk but rather recognizing that by the time Snow Leopard ships we'll have 2 and 4 core computers w/hyperthreading. I'm sure that older SMP systems will see a benefit but in reality the most modern CPU offer the best SMP features.
You apologize to iPhone right this instance!
Seriously though, multi-chip and multi-core mean separate things. I get the feeling multi-chip gears it up for GPU load sharing as stated in the forthcoming Snow Cat update.