As Windows 7 RC gets ready for its release, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard build 10A261 is released officially to select beta developers and testers this week according to an Italian Website, Macity.Compared to earlier builds 10A190 and 10A222, there are few noticeable changes to the software other than minor adjustments to the System Preferences pane and bug fixes to the new Cocoa-based Finder. The User Interface remains mostly unchanged and the build is said to have more stability and speed. Developers are asked to focus on printer drivers, 3rd-party applications, and Microsoft Exchange support. Besides Grand Central and OpenCL, technologies designed to utilize multicore processors better and shift parallel computing tasks to multicore GPUs, Exchange support is one of the few major features of Snow Leopard.
Snow Leopard is expected to be released in the first quarter of 2009.
Changed the title to be more suitable
Changed the title to be more suitable
Er have you? Still gives same message.
"New Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard build available" would be far more suitable.
I just can't see it happening...can you?
I just can't see it happening...can you?
I can't see it happening either. Apple are rumored to be changing the interface, but then again, they do work fast at what they do so if it is first quarter, it'll be late into it. Looking forward to it either way...current build is stable enough, but they'll be improving it. Good news.
I'd be furious not to be when I've been fighting for Apple so long.
Last edited by ZeroHour on 05 Feb 2009 - 14:57
No, he is a FanBoy
yeah your right Windows ME was such an upgrade and Vista as well and those who bought vista and going to windows 7 suppppppperrrrrbarrrrr thats going to be an 'upgrade'. Wait what differences were there with any of the windows, all of them had taskbars and did the same thing.
*You're* Get that right please.
Who the hell is talking about Windows ME? This is about OS X, didn't you know? The argument you made was... **** poor. Try again!
Should be a good release, but this one is more like an update pack than a new full release.
Update pack??
Update pack??
Yeah, typically a new release focuses on things like new features and things users (who will be paying for the upgrade, presumably) are going to care about. While this release does have new features most of them are behind the scenes and most non-tech people aren't going to see a whole lot of reason to upgrade (if it stays like it is in its current form).
Update pack: http://support.apple.com/downloads/Mac_OS_X_10-5-6_Update
Full release (worded as 'Major Release' on their own web site): http://www.apple.com/macosx/
Snow Leopard is looking like a collection of optimizations and under-the-hood improvements. As I said, seems more like an update than would I would expect in a usual major release.
No. Here's how it works; I'll give explaining it a try.
Mac OS X 10.5.6
Windows NT 6 SP1 (aka Windows Vista SP1)
Changing the major version number of Mac OS would be at the scale of changing the Windows architecture from Windows NT. Yes, that would indeed be a "full release", but e.g. Windows haven't seen a "full release" on that scale since 1993 with the first NT release. The minor version number of Mac OS is the OS release, and finally the revision number corresponds to the "service pack" in Microsoft-speak. So Mac OS X 10.5.6 is the sixth service pack for Mac OS X Leopard.
Almost every single piece of code in the OS has been changed, its a more drastic update than any previous OS X upgrade. So you may not see much UI differences but under the hood everything changes.
That's all well and good but 90% of users don't care about x64 bit kernels etc. What new FEATURES are there?
The main differences are said to be major speed improvements this time around, part from making better use of the 64-bit architecture, and part from making use of multiple cores better. In other words, not a flashy transparent 3D box to play with, but more "invisible" stuff. I actually find it nice to know Apple has the confidence to at all focus on such work for a release. Too many companies these days fall victim to feature creep and forget about the rest.
On the other hand, I'm sure Apple has a few tricks up their sleeve, as for unannounced features.
If they are replacing Aqua with a new UI similar to iTunes, that would be the major feature since it changes the Mac OS X experience completely.
A few things rumored are integrated Exchange 2007 support, QuickTime X, Safari 4 with a massive speed boost according to preliminary benchamarks, and a new Finder.
Here are the major ones:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/snowleopard/
There has also been talk of UI updates, we'll be getting a rewritten Finder as well, and the OS will be substantially leaner. And there could be other goodies from now until its release.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/snowleopard/
There has also been talk of UI updates, we'll be getting a rewritten Finder as well, and the OS will be substantially leaner. And there could be other goodies from now until its release.
Reading that page, that to me equates to going from XP SP1 to SP2... how everyone thought it just felt like a more complete and stable o.s. after SP2. In consumer's eyes, a new o.s. infers new features and methods to make their lives easier and more efficient. not things like "theoretical" memory sizes and squeezing the last drop of power from multicores.
here's a copy and paste from MS' site about what SP2 did:
"The technologies include network protection, memory protection, safer e-mail handling, more secure browsing, and improved computer maintenance."
in other words, more "under the hood" tweaking and restructuring. which like i said, that's what snow leopard, to me, sounds like.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/snowleopard/
There has also been talk of UI updates, we'll be getting a rewritten Finder as well, and the OS will be substantially leaner. And there could be other goodies from now until its release.
Reading that page, that to me equates to going from XP SP1 to SP2... how everyone thought it just felt like a more complete and stable o.s. after SP2. In consumer's eyes, a new o.s. infers new features and methods to make their lives easier and more efficient. not things like "theoretical" memory sizes and squeezing the last drop of power from multicores.
here's a copy and paste from MS' site about what SP2 did:
"The technologies include network protection, memory protection, safer e-mail handling, more secure browsing, and improved computer maintenance."
in other words, more "under the hood" tweaking and restructuring. which like i said, that's what snow leopard, to me, sounds like.
Well if you look at it that way, then I suppose the real problem is that Snow Leopard doesn't attempt to fix an essentially broken OS which nobody really wants and that took 5 years and billions to develop, which the manufacturer can't wait to bury.
In that sense Snow Leopard may come off as unexciting. There's just not a whole lot do.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/snowleopard/
There has also been talk of UI updates, we'll be getting a rewritten Finder as well, and the OS will be substantially leaner. And there could be other goodies from now until its release.
Reading that page, that to me equates to going from XP SP1 to SP2... how everyone thought it just felt like a more complete and stable o.s. after SP2. In consumer's eyes, a new o.s. infers new features and methods to make their lives easier and more efficient. not things like "theoretical" memory sizes and squeezing the last drop of power from multicores.
here's a copy and paste from MS' site about what SP2 did:
"The technologies include network protection, memory protection, safer e-mail handling, more secure browsing, and improved computer maintenance."
in other words, more "under the hood" tweaking and restructuring. which like i said, that's what snow leopard, to me, sounds like.
Well if you look at it that way, then I suppose the real problem is that Snow Leopard doesn't attempt to fix an essentially broken OS which nobody really wants and that took 5 years and billions to develop, which the manufacturer can't wait to bury. Blah blah blah.
In that sense Snow Leopard may come off as unexciting. There's just not a whole lot do.
And... what is XP's market share compared to OS X? Yeah... a broken OS that is still more popular. Try again!
http://www.apple.com/macosx/snowleopard/
There has also been talk of UI updates, we'll be getting a rewritten Finder as well, and the OS will be substantially leaner. And there could be other goodies from now until its release.
Reading that page, that to me equates to going from XP SP1 to SP2... how everyone thought it just felt like a more complete and stable o.s. after SP2. In consumer's eyes, a new o.s. infers new features and methods to make their lives easier and more efficient. not things like "theoretical" memory sizes and squeezing the last drop of power from multicores.
here's a copy and paste from MS' site about what SP2 did:
"The technologies include network protection, memory protection, safer e-mail handling, more secure browsing, and improved computer maintenance."
in other words, more "under the hood" tweaking and restructuring. which like i said, that's what snow leopard, to me, sounds like.
Well if you look at it that way, then I suppose the real problem is that Snow Leopard doesn't attempt to fix an essentially broken OS which nobody really wants and that took 5 years and billions to develop, which the manufacturer can't wait to bury. Blah blah blah.
In that sense Snow Leopard may come off as unexciting. There's just not a whole lot do.
And... what is XP's market share compared to OS X? Yeah... a broken OS that is still more popular. Try again!
I was referring to Vista.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/snowleopard/
There has also been talk of UI updates, we'll be getting a rewritten Finder as well, and the OS will be substantially leaner. And there could be other goodies from now until its release.
Reading that page, that to me equates to going from XP SP1 to SP2... how everyone thought it just felt like a more complete and stable o.s. after SP2. In consumer's eyes, a new o.s. infers new features and methods to make their lives easier and more efficient. not things like "theoretical" memory sizes and squeezing the last drop of power from multicores.
here's a copy and paste from MS' site about what SP2 did:
"The technologies include network protection, memory protection, safer e-mail handling, more secure browsing, and improved computer maintenance."
in other words, more "under the hood" tweaking and restructuring. which like i said, that's what snow leopard, to me, sounds like.
Well if you look at it that way, then I suppose the real problem is that Snow Leopard doesn't attempt to fix an essentially broken OS which nobody really wants and that took 5 years and billions to develop, which the manufacturer can't wait to bury. Blah blah blah.
In that sense Snow Leopard may come off as unexciting. There's just not a whole lot do.
And... what is XP's market share compared to OS X? Yeah... a broken OS that is still more popular. Try again!
I was referring to Vista.
...and Vista... has more market share than OS X. :-P
http://www.apple.com/macosx/snowleopard/
There has also been talk of UI updates, we'll be getting a rewritten Finder as well, and the OS will be substantially leaner. And there could be other goodies from now until its release.
Reading that page, that to me equates to going from XP SP1 to SP2... how everyone thought it just felt like a more complete and stable o.s. after SP2. In consumer's eyes, a new o.s. infers new features and methods to make their lives easier and more efficient. not things like "theoretical" memory sizes and squeezing the last drop of power from multicores.
here's a copy and paste from MS' site about what SP2 did:
"The technologies include network protection, memory protection, safer e-mail handling, more secure browsing, and improved computer maintenance."
in other words, more "under the hood" tweaking and restructuring. which like i said, that's what snow leopard, to me, sounds like.
Well if you look at it that way, then I suppose the real problem is that Snow Leopard doesn't attempt to fix an essentially broken OS which nobody really wants and that took 5 years and billions to develop, which the manufacturer can't wait to bury. Blah blah blah.
In that sense Snow Leopard may come off as unexciting. There's just not a whole lot do.
And... what is XP's market share compared to OS X? Yeah... a broken OS that is still more popular. Try again!
I was referring to Vista.
Vista isn't broken.
Wow - what a bunch of crap. Please tell me how Vista is "essentially broken" and how "nobody" really wants it. Do you actually use Vista, or are you basing your opinions on the "I'm a Mac" commercials?
I use Vista at work and at home and I love it. Even my mom (who only really started using computers in the last 5 years) uses Vista at her job, and she recently told me (with no prompting - she brought it up) that she didn't understand what all the fuss was about Vista. Her exact words were "we haven't had any problems."
Vista works great, and allows me to do more than any OS Apple has put out.
Maybe you don't realize this but the Mac OS is an Operating System. The under-the-hood changed are the most important you can make. Based on your logic, people shouldn't care about a car with a better engine unless it has a better looking heat shield on top. Because appearances are more important than anything else, right?
I think Snow Leopard is optimization for running on smaller computers and probably will be optimized for a netbook/table pc.
I think Windows 7 is optimization for running on smaller computers and probably will be optimized for a netbook/table pc.
Both companies do both things.
But I actually tried Vista, and ohh would you look at that, they didn't have a clue what they were talking about.
OS X Dog and OS X Pig doesn't quite ring the same.
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