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Apple Announces Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Apple Announces Mac OS X Snow Leopard

by , 4:25 PM EDT, June 9th, 2008

San Francisco - Apple quietly announced Mac OS X, code named Snow Leopard, following the Steve Jobs keynote address at the company's World Wide Developer Conference in San Francisco on Monday. The next version of Mac OS X will focus on performance improvements and preparing Apple's desktop and laptop platforms for future operating system versions.

Mac OS X Snow Leopard will be optimized for multi-core processors with a new technology dubbed Grand Central, will be able to use graphic processing units more efficiently, will include out-of-the-box support for Microsoft Exchange 2007 in iCal, Address Book and Mail, and according to the company will support "breakthrough amounts of RAM." It also will include a new media platform called QuickTime X.

Bertrand Serlet, Apple's senior vice president of Software Engineering, commented "We have delivered more than a thousand new features to OS X in just seven years and Snow Leopard lays the foundation for thousands more."

Many of the features in Snow Leopard will be built on technologies developed for the version of OS X used on the iPhone.

Apple is not saying yet how much Mac OS X Snow Leopard will cost, but the company does plan on shipping the new operating system in about a year.

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Close Name:Guest
Mon Jun 09, 2008 7:00 pm Subject: Hmm.....

Seems like some of those things should be done in Leapord, not getting me to shell out more for it.

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Close Name:iJack Posts: 313 Joined: 13 Jun 2001
Mon Jun 09, 2008 11:30 pm Subject:

Guest; It's a seed for future OS versions, not the current, or even the next version of the OS. At some point in the not unforeseeable future, OSX will not be Universal, as the PPC is getting long in the tooth.

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Close Name:houltmac Posts: 264 Joined: 12 Apr 2007
Tue Jun 10, 2008 2:46 am Subject:

Apple have put up some Snow Leopard pages for client and server. Some details that interested me:

1. Client: Exchange support in Mail, Address Book, iCal - AWESOME!
2. Client: Multi-core, OpenCL, 64-bit - Very nice, forward thinking... 16TB RAM!? I think we'll be okay for a while.
3. Server: iCal Server 2 - group and shared calendars, push notifications, non-iCal invites, web interface... Not everything that is wrong with iCal, but a huge step forward. Syncing to the iPhone is important for me and I need to see that myself.
4. Server: Mail Server - server side rules and vacation messages. Finally.
5. Server: Address Book Server - personal and group contacts FINALLY!!!
6. Server: ZFS read/write support - oh my.

Snow Leopard is looking like an exciting platform already. Release scheduled for next summer.

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Close Name:burreyeann Posts: 1144 Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Tue Jun 10, 2008 2:51 am Subject:

sorry iJack, but when did the guest mention PPC? You are probably right but we don't know when or if PPC will end. PA Semi anybody? Time will tell.

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Close Name:Guest
Sun Jun 15, 2008 8:25 pm Subject: Address Book Server for Tiger and Leopard, Today

For those of you impatient enough not to want to wait for Snow Leopard, there is already a Address Book Server available for both Tiger and Leopard. Take a look at http://www.addressbookserver.com. It let's you run your own server on your network and sync your Mac clients with it.

It also has a companion product called ABxLDAP which published contact details to an LDAP directory.

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Close Name:Guest
Sun Jun 22, 2008 1:00 am Subject:

OMG, Apple invented a 64bit OS! Its the breakthrough of the century. Too bad Windows and Linux had that technology years ago.

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Close Name:macinnerd Posts: 1748 Joined: 15 Jun 2005
Mon Jun 23, 2008 6:22 am Subject:

Not only do you not know what you're talking about, you're also a troll.

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