>OK, you want to know what Windows will be like in a few years? Look no further than Microsoft’s R&D department – Apple.
Apple has taken the current OS Leopard and rewritten huge parts of it, removed loads of legacy code, added new under-the-hood improvements leaving us with the pure, optimized, sleek Snow Leopard.
You won’t find many changes to the front end interface – in fact it looks almost identical. All the new stuff is under the hood. Apple are far enough ahead of the competition to afford the luxury of adding new ground breaking technologies to set the foundations for the next 5 years or so, rather than adding headline grabbing front end stuff.
The main features are:
OpenCL – a new open standard through which developers can utilize the GPU cycles (your graphics processor) for their apps. FASTER.
Grand Central Dispatch – an advanced processor task and thread management system to make full use of multi-processor and multi-core Macs. FASTER, SMOOTHER.
Pure 64 bit – top to bottom 64 bit code, allowing huge number-crunching power and addressing almost limitless RAM. POWERFUL.
Exchange Support – Exchange 2007 built right into the OS. Good news for Macs in the Enterprise space. COMPATIBLE.
Quicktime X – next generation media management/playback. CUTTING EDGE.
Virus Free – this is a given of course. 8 years old and not one Mac OS X virus in the wild. SECURE.
Detail of these advanced technologies here
While Microsoft are dressing up a Vista Service Pack as a new OS – Windows 7 – nothing more than a damage-limitation exercise for the disastrous Vista, Apple’s Mac OS X – the world’s most advanced consumer OS by a country mile, is extending its lead further with the release of Snow Leopard.
One version. Complete. Fully specced. No copy protection. Only £25.
Reviews are coming in. Most reviewers just seem to take it at face value and have little understanding that it is as existing apps are adapted for these new technologies that the real performance gains will be seen. But this is no surprise considering the general standard of the technical writers these days.
Still, here are a few independent reviews…
Gizmodo
PC Mag
Engadget
InfoWorld
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(Note: You can of course run Windows on your Mac, either natively or simultaneously alongside Mac OS X)
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