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Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard Revealed: Multi-Core Optimized, GPU Lovin' OS Upgrade Due In One Year

Yep, you heard right: Apple showed off the OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, due out in a year, to the attendees at WWDC, and let some details slip to the public, including:
• Optimization for multi-core processors
• GPU friendly (actually GPU utilization of highly parallel tasks generally done on a CPU)
• Supports "breakthrough" amounts of RAM—16TB to be precise
• New "modern" QuickTime X platform
• Safari with 53% faster JavaScript implementation
Yes, as we've heard, this is a lot less about cool user features and more about boots-on-the-ground stability—or in Apple SVP for Software Engineering's words, "perfecting the world's most advanced OS." There's no mention of continuing PowerPC support, but then again, there's no word about discontinuing it, either. Here's more from the horse's, I mean, predatory feline's mouth. Update: The official Snow Leopard site is live. More »

6:37 PM on Mon Jun 9 2008
By Wilson Rothman
19,801 views, 51 comments

Latest by The Turtle: Have you ever seen a snow leopard? They have enormous long tails. As a result, way too often more »

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When Will You Pounce on the Leopard?

I'm curious about when everyone is going to upgrade to Mac OS 10.5, better know throughout the galaxy as Leopard. I mean, I'm excited about all the new features but if I screw up my Mac, I'm totally SOL. Do I rush in where angels fear to tread and all that? What are you going to do? (And yeah, it should be obvious that this one is for the Mac users, but I've provided a few token responses for you haters.) More »

2:30 PM on Mon Oct 22 2007
By Wilson Rothman
4,736 views, 75 comments

Latest by duckers: I'll wait at least a few months, if ever, to get Leopard. I am happy with 10.4. Time more »

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Apple Answers Leopard Questions, Slaps MSFT On the Ass

We talked to Brian Croll, senior director, Mac OS X Product Marketing at Apple this morning about, yep, Leopard. We had quite a few questions, and Brian had answers for many of them. Here's the information we managed to eke out, including Leopard's demands on MacBook Pro battery life, the possibility of Widgets on iPhone, and whether or not that cool R2D2 iChat hologram effect survived. (Care to place bets?) Oh, one more thing: Apple was also quick to reiterate that "Everyone gets the Ultimate version" in a not so subtle dig at Microsoft's confusing Vista variants. More »

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11:15 AM on Tue Oct 16 2007
By Wilson Rothman
48,457 views, 48 comments

Latest by Dakota Courtois: With a lot of the internet fads these days, I had a diffrent "cat" for Apple. Mac OS X "Longcat". Because Longcat more »

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Apple Confirms October 26th Leopard Ship Date, Preorders Start Now

The horse has spoken: The eagerly anticipated, occasionally delayed Mac OS 10.5 Leopard is finally shipping. It will be available in 10 days, on Friday, October 26th, at 6pm in Apple Stores and at authorized resellers. Leopard may be the most ambitious MacOS update since the switch to OS X, with new features such as Time Machine, Spaces and Quick Look, plus updated iChat and Mail and a snazzy new Dock with Stacks. The upgrade will cost $129 for a single-user license, and $199 for five-user "family pack." Meanwhile, if you've bought a Mac anytime on or after October 1st, you'll get an upgrade for the cost of shipping ($9.95). Today's announcement has a few surprise features that we check out here, but we'll have an interview where we can dig for more. (Oh, and preorders start today at Apple's website.)
Apple also confirmed the simultaneous shipping of the Leopard Server software, and unveiled a new utility, Podcast Producer, "the ideal way to automatically publish podcasts to iTunes or the web." More »

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8:30 AM on Tue Oct 16 2007
By Wilson Rothman
8,975 views, 20 comments

Latest by chevyman87: This sounds great, but I do have one question. If we have bootcamp already installed will we have to erase more »

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Rumor: Apple To Add "Top Secret" Features To Leopard

According to the good folks at AppleInsider, Steve & Co. plan to throw a few "top secret" features into Leopard, which may be the real cause for the operating system's four-month delay. In the report, American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu is quoted as saying that Apple will be good enough to reveal those secrets at the WWDC conference on June 11. In the meantime, we can only guess at what they might be.
•iChat AV: now with Pet Tracker
•Keynote Steve's "Boom!" system sound: finally replaces "Sosumi"
•CorePants: new API to design pants, because pants are important
•Three-fingered tracking on MacBooks: mmmmm, sexy
•TimeWarp upgrade: allows real-life time travel so OS releases always stay on schedule More »

4:15 PM on Fri Apr 13 2007
By www.gizmodo.com
5,883 views, 34 comments

Latest by TheBugMan: You forgot the edition I'm saving for... OS X Pervert Mega Ultimate "iLikePorn" more »

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Official: Apple Delays Leopard; iPhone Is Priority #1


Because its priority is squarely on iPhone, Apple has announced it will push back its Leopard launch date from June to October. Yes, a four-month delay! The reason? "Key software engineering and QA resources" have been reallocated from the OS team to the iPhone team. More »

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5:50 PM on Thu Apr 12 2007
By www.gizmodo.com
10,439 views, 81 comments

Latest by EMoShunz: If anyone is interested, check out this Desktop Manager OS, free of charge, and it's a Live CD (run off more »