Snow Leopard to Get Cocoa Finder and ImageBoot
AppleInsider reports that Apple's next version of Mac OS X Leopard will introduce a "massive rewrite". According to the rumor site, Apple will rewrite Finder, as well as other Apple applications, from Carbon to Cocoa.
Meanwhile, a new ImageBoot feature should allow Macs to boot from a disk image and store multiple different configurations on the hard drive.
This latest version of Snow Leopard is expected to be broadly seeded to Apple's developers as early as this weekend. Aside from these new improvements, Snow Leopard is expected to bring more multi-processing and GPU support.
Apple has reportedly tapped select members of its developer community to begin testing the updated graphical file system manager as part of a new pre-release copy of Snow Leopard belonging to the build train 10Axxx. In addition, many of the Apple-authored applications accompany the new build are also said to have been wrapped completely in Cocoa.
Other changes expected include broader support for Microsoft Exchange 2007 within Snow Leopard's apps such as iCal, Address Book and Mail.Meanwhile, a new ImageBoot feature should allow Macs to boot from a disk image and store multiple different configurations on the hard drive.
This latest version of Snow Leopard is expected to be broadly seeded to Apple's developers as early as this weekend. Aside from these new improvements, Snow Leopard is expected to bring more multi-processing and GPU support.
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43 months ago
I hope it's not just arewrite of the same thing, but also includes some improvements, like tabs...
43 months ago
This sounds fantastic. Sure to continue keeping OSX waaaaaay ahead of Windoze Vista/Windoze 7 for the foreseeable future.
43 months ago
Just having exchange support built in is a huge win. This means I no longer have to suffer through the poor Entourage experience. So this will be real cool. I am interested to see the integration with mobileme and this.
43 months ago
anyone else get nervous nowadays when apple decides to do major overhauls such as re-writing finder. they're quality control is about as good as M$ as of late. get ready for 10.6.1 to be released a week later with "minor bug and security fixes"
43 months ago
Hmm... What would the use of the ImageBoot feature be? Does this mean I could download a Ubuntu ISO or some other DMG, and then mark that as my Startup Disk?
43 months ago
I love this Snow Leopard idea. The stability and performance has not been around since Panther. These improvements should be nice.
43 months ago
I hope it's not just arewrite of the same thing, but also includes some improvements, like tabs...
It may include some new features (we've already seen some) but it won't be a massive rethinking of the Finder as a metaphor.
And no tabs, guaranteed.
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