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Snow Leopard could emerge from the first quarter 2009

And finally, if the next Mac OS X, aka Snow Leopard, arrived during the first quarter 2009? If that were the case, Apple would be in advance, but would follow the current trend is to give a date “pessimistic” and create the surprise by arriving early.

Snow Leopard is the next operating system from Apple. Unlike previous iterations of Mac OS X, Snow Leopard is a very special, because it is a still image and examines its own foundations. As a result, compatibility with the PowerPC code disappears and the system becomes fully optimized for Intel architecture. This is essential but it is accompanied by many other changes and improvements. More »

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Snow Leopard: Finder in Cocoa Exchange and ImageBoot

The last preview (build) Snow Leopard sent to developers reported some progress that many have been waiting for years. Snow Leopard is the next operating system from Apple, and this is a way of stopping the time the company adds more new features (this certainly remains to be seen) but form the basis of its system for modernize.

With the addition of technologies such as Grand Central, which allows splitting the workload between the different core processor, or OpenCL, which opens doors to developers GPU calculations for general (not just graphs) Snow Leopard should pave the way later versions of Mac OS X. However, it will be an opportunity for Apple also to get rid of the last components written in Carbon. More »

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