Detailed Technical Look at Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Siracusa covers technical topics such as Grand Central, OpenCL, as well as the typical user interface tweaks. They also explain why Mac OS X 10.6 does not boot into 64-bit mode and why you shouldn't really care:
If it makes you feel better to know that your kernel is operating more efficiently, and that, were you to actually have 96GB of RAM installed, you would not risk starving the kernel of address space, and if you don't have any 32-bit drivers that you absolutely need to use, then by all means, boot into the 64-bit kernel.
For everyone else, my advice is to be glad that K64 will be ready and waiting for you when you eventually do need it -- and please do encourage all the vendors that make kernel extensions that you care about to add K64 support as soon as possible.
As for the future, it's tempting to view Snow Leopard as the "tick" in a new Intel-style "tick-tock" release strategy for Mac OS X: radical new features in version 10.7 followed by more Snow-Leopard-style refinements in 10.8, and so on, alternating between "feature" and "refinement" releases. Apple has not even hinted that they're considering this type of plan, but I think there's a lot to recommend it.
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Removing the silly hardware restriction (and destroying their computer division?) would be a better way to increase user adoption too? :)
If they were to do such a thing again, then even charging for it could be questionable. It'd appear to people that 10.7 would pretty much be a $129 public beta, then 10.8 would be a $29 upgrade to get everything optimised and streamlined.
I thought Snow Leopard was refinements, and from now on Apple will deliver new features (with no need to refine, because the features should be optimized already).
Apple should just make every new feature with its best software team and leave no room for unnecessary or inefficient code.
I really like his insight on QuickTime X. He talks about how QuickTime X is like how OS X was when it was first released.
Wow Snow Leopard was just released and they are already talking about how this is a prelude to the next mac-os .. It never ends, that's what's makes Apple who they are.
Hasn't each version of Mac OS X been a prelude to the next?
If 64 Bit is still on the horizon then why were the long ago G5's touted as being 64 Bit? Was it a marketing thing on IBM/Apple's part?
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