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Your Guide to Whats New in Snow Leopard 10.6

By Luke On Aug 28, 2009 Apple | OS 0 No Comments Tags: ,

The day is upon us and Snow Leopard has made it’s debut. You may notice however, that it’s not all that different.  Well it is, but its hard to notice at first. To help you get the most out of the great new features that Snow Leopard offers.

    • small_footprint_20090824The Finder has been completely rewritten in Cocoa to take advantage of all the modern technologies in Mac OS X, including 64-bit support and Grand Central Dispatch.
    • Grand Central Dispatch takes full advantage by making all of Mac OS X multicore aware and optimizing it for allocating tasks across multiple cores and processors.
    • Exposé is refined and more convenient. It’s now integrated in the Dock, so you can just click and hold an application icon in the Dock and all the windows for that application will unshuffle so you can quickly change to another one.
    • Snow Leopard takes up less than half the disk space of the previous version, freeing about 7GB for you — enough for about 1,750 more songs3 or a few thousand more photos.
    • OpenCL in Snow Leopard is a technology that makes it possible for developers to tap the vast gigaflops of computing power currently in the graphics processor and use it for any application.

    Retail Snow Leopard discs appear in the wild

    By Luke On Aug 15, 2009 Apple | OS 0 No Comments Tags: ,

    Macrumors recently received what appears to be legitimate pictures of the retail packaging for OS X Snow Leopard. (click on the pic to see the rest of the pics and read the full story at Macrumors.com)

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    OS X 10.6 : Grand Central Dispatch

    By Luke On Jul 14, 2009 Apple | OS 0 No Comments Tags: , ,

    For the longest time multicore macs have unfortunately been held back by old and un-optimized code that was designed for single core CPUs. If you have any sort of system monitoring device on your computer you may notice that your mac is often using 100% of one core and 0% of the other. The release of Snow Leopard and the inclusion of GCD (Grand Central Dispatch) hopes to change all of that.

      More cores, not faster clock speeds, drive performance increases in today’s processors. Grand Central Dispatch takes full advantage by making all of Mac OS X multicore aware and optimizing it for allocating tasks across multiple cores and processors. Grand Central Dispatch also makes it much easier for developers to create programs that squeeze every last drop of power from multicore systems.
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      Quicktime X brings native screen recording to 10.6

      By Luke On Apr 24, 2009 Apple | Rumor 0 No Comments Tags: ,

      “People familiar with the latest betas of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard have been reporting over the past several weeks the addition of a ‘Screen recording’ option in the File menu of the new Quick Time X Player due to ship with the OS overhaul later this summer.”
      “When selecting the screen recording option under recent pre-release distributions of Snow Leopard, a recording interface prompts the user to begin a video capture then disappears. A small footprint controller in the upper-right hand side of the Mac OS X menubar can be used to end the video capture.”

      Via Appleinsider.

      I just keep on getting more and more excitied for 10.6. Check back often for news and reviews covering everything Apple.

      OS X Snow Leopard adding system wide spell check.

      By Luke On Mar 7, 2009 Apple | OS 0 No Comments Tags: , ,

      desktopDetails are still sketchy, however, it looks as though OS 10.6 will have dramatically improved spelling features.

        OS X will now be able to automatically correct spelling mistakes. This feature is fully customizable and can also be turned on and off at your discretion. Another exciting feature to grace OS X 10.6 is the inclusion of language abbreviation. For example, typing MOSX could be automatically translated to Macintosh OS X.
        While neither one of these are exactly ground breaking, they will be much appreciated by many.

          Via Macx.cn

          Why Apple?

          By Luke On Oct 28, 2008 Apple | Featured | OS 0 No Comments Tags: , , ,

          What makes you choose Apple? Is it the operating system? Is it their style of product? is it their devotion to excellence in every product? What makes you pick Apple when there are several other choices to choose from?

          Why do I buy Apple?

          I buy Apple because of the operating system. OS X is the perfect mix of flexibility, reliability, style, and power. Technologies like Grand Central will help optimize the operating system to new hardware by making every part of OS X Multi-Processor aware. From the UNIX core to the UI. Every part of 10.6 will be able to take advantage of multi-core processors and all that they have to offer. It’s scheduled to receive the 64 bit streamline in the near future. This streamlining will also accompany a complete re-write of Finder in the Cocoa language as well as general code optimization and other enhancements.

          The second reason I have for buying Apple is because of product design. Laptops made out of aluminum and elegantly simply iMacs are why I buy Apple. The level of thought that goes into every aspect of every Mac makes for an exceptionally pleasing experience regardless of what Mac you are using. They look nice and they feel solid.

          Those are my reasons, what are yours?

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