Today, we got to see and try Mac OS X 10.6 . Apple representatives from Singapore today showcased their new operating system, codenamed Snow Leopard.
- Snow Leopard comes as 32-bit and 64-bit out of the box and system applications such as Finder, Mail, iCal and Safari are also on 64-bit.
- Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) provides new ways for to create applications that’s optimized for multiple core processors.
- Introduction of the OpenCL (somewhat derived from OpenGL) to maximize the power of the GPU.
Apple is finally ditching the PowerPC so Snow Leopard can only be installed on an Intel-based Mac system. Almost half of the Apple presentation was dedicated to bashing Windows 7.
Existing Leopard users will only need to pay a Php1,690 license fee to upgrade to Snow Leopard. A Family Pack costs Php2,790 (up to 5 users) and a Mac Box Set that includes iLife and iWork will have a suggested retail price of Php9,490.
Ultimately, five years after closing we would need to get
a loan from a bank for around $32,000 to pay off the seller.
The pros and cons identified above are certainly not meant to be an exhaustive compilation of all the issues that you should consider
when purchasing an investment property. Of course, there are many other reasons
why you would want to use a real estate agent whenever picking up a
piece of Manatee County real estate.
Hi Abe!
It was nice meeting you during the Snow Leopard event. :)
Mark
TechPinas.com
PC World reports that the Snow Leopard install disc will quietly downgrade your browser’s Adobe Flash Player plug-in (which lets you view embedded Flash videos on the Web) from the latest version—10.0.32.18—to an earlier version, 10.0.23.1, that lacks recent patches for a variety of security vulnerabilities.
Here’s the link to the story… http://www.pcworld.com/article/171367/
@Israel Nicolas
I don’t think that one fact automatically makes the whole OS inferior. First-time buyers, for instance, wouldn’t really care much about backwards hardware compatibility.
@papapao
Reminds me of my OS of choice: Linux. Hehe. Intel’s Linux distro designed for netbooks can already boot within 8 seconds.
Sir Abe, correction lang po. OpenCL and OpenGL have little in common, actually. Well, they were both made by the same standards group (and that also explains the similarity of the names), but they have entirely different purposes and implementations. OpenGL is something used by programmers to be able to make computer graphics, and OpenCL is like a programming language designed to take advantage not just of multi-core processors, but also of the tremendous amount of computing power ‘locked’ and unused in graphics processors (read:video cards).
As far as I’ve heard, OS X 10.6 is all about under-the-hood changes. Sort of like a developer-oriented OS, a springboard for the next Leopard (I mean, a more feature-oriented OS X release).
Hi DJ, it was how the presenter interpreted it. Thanks for the correction.