Apple changes programming gears on Snow Leopard
SHINY GADGETS FLOGGER Apple has been putting the finishing touches to the forthcoming Snow Leopard iteration of its OS X operating system.
Last minute changes include optimisation of code for multi-core Macs. In a statement Apple told developers these will be the last programming-oriented changes ahead of the software's release.
Apple said it has simplified the application programming interfaces (APIs) for working with the OS X Grand Central scheduler that controls multiple processing cores.
That works by breaking complex tasks into smaller blocks, which are then routed to the Mac's available cores for faster processing. The upshot is it means that developers do not need to be too clued up with multi-threaded programming to get it to work.
The announcement means that developers can get on with it and release code knowing that Apple is not going to make any further changes before unleashing Snow Leopard.
Snow Leopard is to the Mac operating system what Windows 7 is to Vista. It is supposed to have ironed out a lot of the bugs and generally speeded up the operating system.
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard is expected to hit the shelves sometime this coming summer. µ
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Snow Leopard is to Leopard what 7 is to vista, except that Leopard is already exceptional and Vista, well, we all know the story there :) This is just another move to keep several years ahead of Microsoft's poor OS.
what? apple? bugs? nonsense
insecure? nonsense
perhaps one day the sad reality that anything plugged into the internet is insecure.
Anything with millions and millions of lines of code will have bugs.
the more popular it becomes and the more hardware it supports the more obvious this becomes....
I had a black Macbook that I gave my nephew for college and it was having WiFi connection issues. After sending it in for warranty repair (Apple is great at customer service) it still kept throwing tantrums. After googleing the problem I found there to many users with the same problem. I noticed Leapard to be bloated similar to Vista against XP. Tiger easily ran just as fast on a 1.33 G4 Powerbook as Leopard did on a 2.4 Dual Care Macbook and the WiFi worked fine too. So the author has a point and I have been saying the same thing, Snow Leopard is doing what what 7 is, improving on the current OS.
How many OS's is apple releasing? This it seemed not long ago X 10 was released, now the FOURTH OS based on it is being released? I would hate to know how often quality updates get released for Macs, having to work with 4-5(assuming they still work on OS 9) at once... Something is bound to go wrong...
Regarding the Peanut Gallery that commented.
Snow Leopard is nothing like a total new Operating System like 7 built from the ground up. Last time I heard that was called a revision update, even if it is a big one.
Snow leopard is the same as all revisions except focusing more on stability, speed and adding a few features like better multithreading.
The next guy just spits diatribe he heard on other sites. lmao
Troll regurgitating his lunch for an extra snack ;)
Stupid logic again, all computer parts eventually fail.
The Oses have recommended machines that they run on and they run well.
I have had 10.4 on a 800mhz and its quite fine.
Finally the last guy confuses the same OS as a new one.
Its the same Operating system, I pity the people who rely on your Tech Support.
Haha redundant and ignorant comments. good luck to you.