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Apple posts details about Snow Leopard

by Cory Bohon Jun 9th 2008 at 4:00PM

TUAW broke the Snow Leopard story and boy were we right. Apple has just posted the details on the next version of Mac OS X -- Snow Leopard. Snow Leopard will not bring any major new features to the Mac platform, instead, Apple will be focusing on the quality of the OS.

According to the details, Snow Leopard will be optimized for multi-core processors, be able to take advantage of even more RAM (up to 16TB, theoretically), and include out-of-box support for Microsoft Exchange 2007. A new technology in the OS, named "Grand Central" will allow developers to better take advantage of Macs with more than one processing core.

In addition, Safari will be revved with Snow Leopard. Safari will utilize a new JavaScript engine ( SquirrelFish, no doubt) to make it even faster.

Apple did not supply any details about price, but expects the OS to be shipping in "1 year."


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sphygit

Well, I was wondering this? Would it be possible to harnesss the power of many videocards in the same machine? If so your looking at making a very powerfull computer for real cheap. :)

June 18 2008 at 5:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
celtikmind

And it will be bug-free and just so very totally perfect!!!

Yeah... right.

and Adobe will use OpenCL in CS4 - yeah, any century now that will happen. Do they even use any of the current ones? Cocoa? 64-bit?

The snow leopard (animal) is very cute though. =)

June 10 2008 at 5:34 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
bug

Interesting, the Apple page that Caleb posted never calls it 10.6. I didn't watch the keynote, has Apple said it's going to be 10.6? Maybe it's going to be more of a service pack, like 10.5+, that would explain the name.

June 09 2008 at 10:38 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Simon Arch

Anyone get a screenshot? The page is gone, daddy, gone. :(

June 09 2008 at 6:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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caleb

http://www.apple.com/macosx/snowleopard/

June 09 2008 at 7:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Simon Arch

Thanks for the heads up, caleb!

June 09 2008 at 11:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Paul Johnson

How about posting the full text of the press release so that those of us who didn't get there in time can see what it said?

June 09 2008 at 6:02 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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caleb

http://www.apple.com/macosx/snowleopard/

June 09 2008 at 7:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
thefjk

A lot of the rumors and stuff have come true about the latest Apple stuff, I think the SquirellFish engine will be used in Safari too. Apple is predictable!

June 09 2008 at 5:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ZinkDifferent

Native support for Exchange 2007 - for the Enterprise, a dream come true.

For the MacBU - a nightmare with a quick end.

A well deserved end to a group of incompetent idiots - I had a feeling something like this was in the wings when Steve Jobs dissed the MacBU majorly during his keynote during Macworld 2008.

A year can't pass soon enough....

June 09 2008 at 5:39 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tom Boucher

page is gone

June 09 2008 at 5:24 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Eidgenosse

Haha Canadians (jk), the Snow Leopard press release is not available anymore...

June 09 2008 at 4:51 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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