x86osx: quick look at features of OSX 10.6 A.K.A Snow Leopard

2009년 2월 15일 일요일

Support for connecting to Microsoft Exchange 2007 servers will be included in Address Book, Mail, and iCal.
Faster installation times and smaller hard drive footprint. About 13 minutes versus an hour plus for 10.5.
Support for up to a theoretical 16TB RAM[2] by further developing 64-bit kernel technologies.
Grand Central: a parallel-programming technology that aims to have the OS take greater advantage of multi-core CPUs.
QuickTime X which will feature optimized support for modern codecs.
OpenCL (Open Computing Language): allowing developers to code applications to use the GPU for non-graphics purposes.
A 64-bit kernel which provides a complete 64-bit environment for applications, along with 32-bit support for older Macs. This completes a long running attempt by Apple to completely unify their products in 64-bit capabilities, dating back to Apple’s original adoption of the PowerPC in 1994 which was planned to become natively 64-bit with the PowerPC G5 and slowly built into OS X starting with Mac OS X v10.3 “Panther” in 2003