Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 10th Jun 2008 06:12 UTC
Earlier this month, we reported that The Unofficial Apple Weblog's as well as Ars Technica's sources said that Apple was working on the next version of Mac OS X, dubbed Snow Leopard. The news was that the new release wouldn't focus on new features, but on performance. During yesterday's WWDC 2008 keynote, Steve Jobs confirmed this rumour, and now Apple has published a preview page.
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If Microsoft spent a whole development cycle just cutting bloat, would you buy it? I suspect many would. Removing the bloat is what people have been asking for for years, and the *day-to-day* improvements would be the reason it would be worth it.
Leopard isn't exactly bloated, as it still manages to be a little faster than Tiger; but if your computer could operate twice as fast, just with a software upgrade - how much are you willing to deny that that would make a refreshing difference on the *day-to-day*? Less hard disk space? Faster graphics via the GPU? Better load balancing across 8+ cores (especially when your time=money).
Some have labelled this as a "maintenance" release.
Spending the full engineering capacity of 1000's of developers for a whole development cycle, is not "maintenance". It's full-blooded development for the future.
Apple want the OS that matters most to regular users - "is it fast?". And we geeks can say we want features, but if anything it still boils down to the same thing, we use the computer to it's full, we want it to be fast.
I really think this will be the most interesting and exciting OS release for geeks by far. It may not seem it yet, but by the time release is near, it's going to become a real talking point.