subject: Apple Announces Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server [print this page] Apple on the World Wide Developers Conference the new version of Mac OS X announced. Version 10.6 of Apple's OS brings few major changes. The OS is 6GB narrowed since the previous version.
Apple has some things in Snow Leopard rewritten, making it faster. For example, jpg files twice as fast to open pdf's a half times as fast. The code is also rewritten Finder, but there is also little changed.
There are also some smaller things changed as the text selection is improved and the Expose feature, where open windows are displayed now in Dock. Before Saturday that only a shortcut from the keyboard.
In addition, many programs received an update. Safari 4 beta is out and promises better performance. QuickTime has been a make-over, with more features and a different interface.
The OS will also provide better support to cpu with multiple processor cores and large amounts of working memory. Thus, the operating system with new extensions to the 64bit memory addressing it off with a theoretical 16TB of RAM.
Apple promises that developers using as' Grand Central 'type technology easier to build software for multicore processors. Snow Leopard will also go to support GPU acceleration. Apple, the raw computing power of GPUs for applications accessible through the Open Computing Language, too. Opencl is a variant of the C programming language and should become an open standard and widely embraced, so Apple hopes.
The new OS X version has applications Mail, iCal and Address Book compatible with Microsoft Exchange 2007, in particular business users within a Microsoft environment, accelerate the transition to OS X could make. Also, the Quicktime X platform is introduced, where a greater number of codecs can be used. The Safari browser will be equipped with Squirrel Fish, a new and still experimental javascript engine of the WebKit team. Apple claims that Squirrel Fish significantly faster than existing javascript engine.
Snow Leopard will be in September on the market. The U.S. price for an upgrade is 29 dollars.would also say, but these changes need to be felt in one way or another. Things easier or faster but such changes only measurable with synthetic benchmarks are as good as worthless, though.
