[G4] Snow Leopard

Harry Freeman gifutiger at gmail.com
Thu Jun 12 17:53:34 PDT 2008


 From the WWDC www.macnewsworld.com

What's unusual about Snow Leopard is what's not there -- new end-user  
features. Instead, Snow Leopard will focus on the performance 
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  of OS X, including technologies such as Grand Central for multi-core  
processor support and extended support for Open Computing Language  
(OpenCL).

Harry
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On Jun 11, 2008, at 1:15 AM, ewood at izoom.net wrote:

>>> From your first link, I read this:
>> "...will streamline Mac OS X, enhance its performance, and set new
>> standards for quality. Snow Leopard dramatically reduces the  
>> footprint
>> of Mac OS X, making it even more efficient for users, and giving them
>> back valuable hard drive space for their music and photos."
>> Stripping PPC code would accomplish all those goals, except, perhaps,
>> setting "new standards for quality."
>> But I know even less than you on this subject.
>>
>> In any case, I feel like I just upgraded to Leopard, and I think my
>> Quicksilver will be quite happy with Leopard for years (5 or more) to
>> come.  My Windows computers are still quite happy running XP, so why
>> not?
>>
>> --
>> Rich



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