That's the computer name and user name, which can be set to anything.On the System Profiler screen shot posted by sevenmac.com - twice it's misspelled:
"Leoaprds"
granted - if legit, this is an alpha release of the OS, but a typo like that makes me doubt the authenticity of all the screen shots right off the bat.
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I'm really looking forward to seeing this upgrade at MWSF. Any chance that 
will release it there? I'm thinking it's doubtful, but you never really know!
will release it there? I'm thinking it's doubtful, but you never really know!
Without the Jobs RDF, I'm just not feeling good about Snow Leopard. Perhaps I'll be so transfixed on Tubbys mullet, that it might have the same effect, when he describes Snow Leopard to us next week.
Look like transparency from the drop down menus has completely disappeared:
http://gk.czo.hu/gallery/GALLERY/SnowLeopard10A222/Screenshot 12-15-08 1.59.07 AM.png
Boooooo!
http://gk.czo.hu/gallery/GALLERY/SnowLeopard10A222/Screenshot 12-15-08 1.59.07 AM.png
Boooooo!
I AM a developer, and self proclaimed nerd as well. One of the biggest things probably in snow leopard is Apple's latest from R&D, Open CL. What this means is the GPU can take a bunch of load off of the CPU. This will give your computer a crazy speed boost, and as long as you have a GPU in your mac you won't need new hardware. They're also making it easier for devs to use more than one core. Both of these together allow apple to give us the eye candy they love demonstrating, and it allows devs to make much better apps. It'd be like owning a supercomputer in terms of speed.
Also, the technology will of course move over to the iphone at some point, thus making it an extremely powerful little device, even more so than it is already.
Does anyone know if the iphone already has a GPU? I'm not really familiar with its insides.
A little off topic, but does anyone happen to know what that song is in the first linked video? I like it, but have no idea who its by, or what the name of the song is.
Well, FCP is due for an upgrade and I'm hoping it will be a full re-write specifically to take advantage of the new os.
I've always felt that snow leopard was really being done for 2 reasons:
1. move to 64 bit and the general 'future'
2. give a huge huge bump to the pro-apps line and the like (adobe stuff etc).
the os and software not using all cores is silly when using the FCS. it takes forever to do compression and rendering. too long for a computer with so many processors aka 'power'.
This is the kind of jump that could actually put FCP over the top over Avid and solidify the Mac in the adobe/graphics/multi-media realm as well. I know Adobe and others has not caught up yet, but they will. As will other pro apps in other industries.
I feel this update is more for the 'pros' in the short to medium run and for everyone else in the long haul.
Hopefully with them using more of the GPU, the Black Screen of Death problem won't accelerate with the NVidia chipsets....
Apple isn't holding a gun to your head telling you to upgrade to Snow Leopard. No one is forcing you to upgrade. No one forced you to buy a Mac. If you can't afford a $129 OS upgrade every year then maybe you should worry less about *if* Snow Leopard is going to be free and more about where all the hell your money is going. It is reasonable to say that they will continue to support Leopard for another year or so. If you don't think Snow Leopard is worth the money, simply don't upgrade. Or you can jump ship from the platform altogether.
It has a PowerVR MBX 3D. And I believe a few coprocessors that help.
MBX Lite + VGP Lite + FPU (VFP11™) + ARM1176 <--(CPU)
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*everything* has a GPU
Basically, if any current device has any kind of high color bitmapped display, then somewhere inside there's a GPU. Even the Intel GMA900 is a GPU - it just happens to share a piece of silicon with the Northbridge.
Many GPUs, however, aren't powerful enough or don't have the GPGPU extensions needed to use CUDA, OpenCL or other GPGPU frameworks.
Most modern GPUs can do some non-graphics computation, even if they aren't GPGPUs. For example, virtually all current GPUs can offload MPEG, AVC or WMA video decoding.
So, I think the question that you wanted to ask is:
For a much more thorough discussion of GPGPUs, see the paper [http://graphics.idav.ucdavis.edu/publications/print_pub?pub_id=907]A Survey of General-Purpose Computation on Graphics Hardware[/url]
Basically, if any current device has any kind of high color bitmapped display, then somewhere inside there's a GPU. Even the Intel GMA900 is a GPU - it just happens to share a piece of silicon with the Northbridge.
Many GPUs, however, aren't powerful enough or don't have the GPGPU extensions needed to use CUDA, OpenCL or other GPGPU frameworks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPGPU
General-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU, also referred to as GPGP and to a lesser extent GP²) is the technique of using a GPU, which typically handles computation only for computer graphics, to perform computation in applications traditionally handled by the CPU.
It is made possible by the addition of programmable stages and higher precision arithmetic to the rendering pipelines, which allows software developers to use stream processing on non-graphics data.
General-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU, also referred to as GPGP and to a lesser extent GP²) is the technique of using a GPU, which typically handles computation only for computer graphics, to perform computation in applications traditionally handled by the CPU.
It is made possible by the addition of programmable stages and higher precision arithmetic to the rendering pipelines, which allows software developers to use stream processing on non-graphics data.
Most modern GPUs can do some non-graphics computation, even if they aren't GPGPUs. For example, virtually all current GPUs can offload MPEG, AVC or WMA video decoding.
So, I think the question that you wanted to ask is:
liptonlover said:
For a much more thorough discussion of GPGPUs, see the paper [http://graphics.idav.ucdavis.edu/publications/print_pub?pub_id=907]A Survey of General-Purpose Computation on Graphics Hardware[/url]
That is a good thing. E-mail is meant to be plain text; whoever came up with the idea of including HTML in e-mail is responsible for a good deal of grief.
The ipod touch is the single greatest piece of tech I've ever owned. Every day I pick up the little "tablet" and look stuff up online, check my email, use the apps: netflix, iTV, paypal, ebay, weather, calendar. I like being able to watch itunes videos on my tv (yes the cable is overpriced). I hardly use it for music, although it's nice to have that ability. It's a great device.
maybe i'm wrong, but i thought one plan for snow leopard was to reduce the size of applications, and all of those were huge. I'm pretty sure the mail.app size is relative to your inbox, but ichat was like 60 mb or something? I'm running tiger and it's 6.5 mb
is this just because we're still in beta?
is this just because we're still in beta?
No, the idiots who use flashing colors and crazy effects are responsible for that grief. Providing more formatting options is not the problem. Inserting a link in an email, for instance, is a very useful thing (though most clients can interpret links in a plaintext email now).
In Leopard, iChat is 114.5 MB (at least on my computer). 60MB is a pretty good slim down from that size, though obviously still an increase from the version you're using. Remember though that there's a lot of new stuff added since then.
Mail.app is the same size regardless of what email you have, because that's not stored in the application bundle, it's stored in the user library.
jW
I would seriously consider purchasing one if this happens! The mini was a hot little machine (literally if you ran UT2004
) when it had a dedicated graphics chip.