OS X Snow Leopard Details 489
JD-1027 writes in to kick off a discussion of OS X Snow Leopard. Apple's stated goal: "Taking a break from adding new features, Snow Leopard — scheduled to ship in about a year — builds on Leopard's enormous innovations by delivering a new generation of core software technologies that will streamline Mac OS X, enhance its performance, and set new standards for quality." The technologies: Grand Central to get better use of multiple processors and multicore chips, OpenCL to tap the power of the GPU, 64 bit so we can finally have our 16 TB of RAM, QuickTime X for optimized modern codec performance, and built in Exchange support in iCal, Address Book, and Apple Mail that most likely will help get Macs into corporate environments. We've previously discussed ZFS in the server version of Snow Leopard."
Re:To wait or not to wait (Score:4, Funny)
XP to Vista, arguably, was a more minor upgrade. (And, I use the term "upgrade" very loosely. That should be good for a few mod points.)
Re:Tagged (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Who is in charge of codenames at Apple? (Score:5, Funny)
Batman: Shut up. It's just 10.6, dude.
Re:One wonders... (Score:2, Funny)
Do what?
My best guess translation.
I have a motherboard with 4GB of RAM and a huge capacity 7200rpm harddrive.
Sorry. (Score:4, Funny)
Let me get the rest out of my system, so I am not tempted:
o Does it run Linux?
o Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these
o Profit!
o In Soviet Russia, post firsts you!
Re:How about NTFS read-write? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:My #1 reason for no Mac's at work..... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:How about NTFS read-write? (Score:2, Funny)
Right, and you're implying that ZFS has anywhere *near* the penetration of NTFS?
???
I hope not. That would be incredibly stupid of you.
Re:One wonders... (Score:2, Funny)
OS X SP 2, anyone?
Re:Jubeezus Folks get a grip (Score:5, Funny)
Well... What about Zune support in iTunes?
Re:To wait or not to wait (Score:3, Funny)
2.0 - Apr 85
3.0 - Jan 86
4.0 - Mar 87
5.0 - ???
Profit!?
6.0 - Apr 88
7.0 - Jun 91
8.0 - July 97
9.0 - Oct 99
Re:first post (Score:5, Funny)
Translation: "Let's see if we can distract Mac owners from the fact that the recent Apple developer conference produced no new upgrades, no new hardware, no Jobs-ian announcements on OSX, just iPhonery."
Translation: "We're an iPhone company now"
Translation: "We've put off any serious work on OS X for eleven months"
Translation: "We're hoping to bugfix some of the the low-level tweaks promised for Leopard and finally get them out the door... if we're not too busy with the iPhone."
Translation: "We really might be able to fix those bugs..."
Translation: "Yet another feature, like resolution independent graphics, that didn't make it into Leopard, because we were way too busy with the iPhone. But we might have it for you in a year. Read-only, of course. And not turned on by default. For developers only. And only in beta, of course. Use this feature at your own risk."
Re:One wonders... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:To wait or not to wait (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Jubeezus Folks get a grip (Score:5, Funny)
Single-handedly?
Re:That's why I'm going to buy it. (Score:4, Funny)
Oh, never mind; I thought you said "System 7."
Re:Jubeezus Folks get a grip (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Jubeezus Folks get a grip (Score:5, Funny)
Lost tribe from central Africa. Members went around squirting each other and throwing chairs to communicate. Unless action is taken, expected extinction in 2010.
Re:Jubeezus Folks get a grip (Score:1, Funny)
Korea (Score:3, Funny)
That settles it, I'm moving to Korea!
Re:One wonders... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:first post (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Jubeezus Folks get a grip (Score:1, Funny)