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WWDC's big Snow (Leopard) job
Amidst the hype storm that was iPhone 3G, another piece of Apple news that may have a greater impact on the company's bottom line went relatively unnoticed.
Say hello to Snow Leopard. Apple chose to relegate MacOS 10.6 to a later preview in the safe land of developers sworn to non-disclosure agreements, but the company did offer up a statement on the new OS X.
Snow Leopard will sport a new version of QuickTime and will be optimized to take advantage of the multi-core processors and huge loads of RAM so popular with the kids these days, up to 16 TB, in fact.
The new OS X also supports OpenCL, allowing for the graphics processor to be used for normal CPU tasks, a process also known as "GPGPU." As well as a new version of Java that runs about 53 per cent faster.
Take the figures with a grain of salt, however. Apple notes that Snow Leopard's performance will vary according to your hardware, and the machine used in testing was an iMac with a 2.8ghz processor and 2GB RAM.
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