Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 7th Jan 2009 10:29 UTC
At ladt night's MacWorld keynote, Apple's last, one product in particular shone in absense: Mac OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard. Many had expected Apple to give out more details regarding its new operating system, maybe even a release date or a developer preview. Instead, all they got was nothing. Some say it's a mistake not to show off Snow Leopard now that Windows 7 is stealing all the thunder. Or is it?
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2006-01-18
Well it depends, on what they are out to.
I assume the biggest issue with Snow Leopard will be the integraton of OpenCL and speed improvements left and right.
The main problem is, how far will apple go, if it just is the service release they announced upfront then the APIs will be in place but we wont see any results before the release after snow leopard. If they want to go the full mile we probably will see first benefits of OpenCL already in Snow Leopard by having hugely improved codecs for video and audio. That OpenCL is a big issue for Apple has become clear to me when they finally ditched the lousy integrated intel graphics adaptors in favor of nvidia adaptors in all of their newly released computers.
The intel adapters simply do not cut it once you want to use the shading parts of the graphics chipsets for raw calculations!