>OK, you want to know what Windows will be like in a few years? Look no further than Microsoft’s R&D department – Apple. 🙂
Friday 28th August sees the new Mac OS X unleashed. Snow Leopard.
Apple has taken the current OS 10.5 Leopard and rewritten huge parts of it, removed loads of legacy code (no PPC code, Intel only), added new under-the-hood improvements leaving us with the pure Snow Leopard.
The front-end has largely been left alone as Mac OS X is already the leading edge OS – all the new good stuff is under the hood.
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 – 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.
Join the millions who are realizing that you don’t have to put up with dark-ages computing any longer.
Think Different.
PS For those interested in server technology look here for Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server
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