After Steve Jobs' keynote to kick off WWDC, Bertrand Serlet gave a preview of OS 10.6 "Snow Leopard to the attendees of WWDC 08. Apple plans to focus on performance rather than new features in the new release.
“We have delivered more than a thousand new features to OS X in just
seven years and Snow Leopard lays the foundation for thousands more,”
said Bertrand Serlet, Apple’s senior vice president of Software
Engineering. “In our continued effort to deliver the best user
experience, we hit the pause button on new features to focus on
perfecting the world’s most advanced operating system.”
The new OS includes the introduction of Open Computing Language (OpenCL). This new technology extends the computing power of the GPU to any app written with OpenCL commands. Snow Leopard will also bring the software limit for RAM to a whopping 16 TB (theoretically).
I'd love to see some performance boosts, but this sounds more like a service pack than a new release of the OS. So far on the Snow Leopard page, it looks just like Leopard on screen, but that could still change as it says it will be released in about a year's time. We'll be sure to keep you updated here at iBlog.
EDIT: Apple has posted a Snow Leopard page on their website.
“We have delivered more than a thousand new features to OS X in just
seven years and Snow Leopard lays the foundation for thousands more,”
said Bertrand Serlet, Apple’s senior vice president of Software
Engineering. “In our continued effort to deliver the best user
experience, we hit the pause button on new features to focus on
perfecting the world’s most advanced operating system.”
The new OS includes the introduction of Open Computing Language (OpenCL). This new technology extends the computing power of the GPU to any app written with OpenCL commands. Snow Leopard will also bring the software limit for RAM to a whopping 16 TB (theoretically).
I'd love to see some performance boosts, but this sounds more like a service pack than a new release of the OS. So far on the Snow Leopard page, it looks just like Leopard on screen, but that could still change as it says it will be released in about a year's time. We'll be sure to keep you updated here at iBlog.
EDIT: Apple has posted a Snow Leopard page on their website.
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