Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Goes Gold Master
Looks like the latest version of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard might just have gone Gold Master according to Apple Insider, leading to expectation — and anticipation — of a shipping date as soon as a few weeks from now.
Now, TiPb covers Apple news in general only so far as Apple’s 360 degree business model tightly integrates all their offerings and what happens in one product generally either involves or at least touches on many others, including the iPhone. However, following Snow Leopard as we have, it’s interesting to see how Mac OS X was originally stripped down to create the core of iPhone OS X, and now many of the iPhone’s innovations, like QuickTime X and built-in Exchange ActiveSync support are being leveraged back into the Mac — not to mention the whole OS being smaller and tighter. Likewise, iPhone 3.0 has benefitted from data detectors, while Mobile Safari is out pacing it’s big desktop brother in HTML 5 support.
Win. Win.
Snow Leopard promises some great new technologies we likely won’t need on the iPhone for a while, like Grand Central’s packetizing of processes to hit multiple cores, but OpenCL, which lets GPU’s be used like CPU’s for general purpose computing could really leverage that new PowerVR SGX chip in the iPhone…
Mac doesn’t get free OS updates like the iPhone, but at $29 for a single user and $49 for a 5-user family pack, Apple is putting on the pricing pressure.
And hopefully there’ll be some more iPhone-involved surprises in the roadmap. (64-bit Cocoa iTunes anyone? And dare we ask again for Mobile iChat?!)
August 12th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Awesomeness!
August 12th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
HTML5? Thats been on my PC for a while. Looks like yall are catching up finally
August 12th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
Slow iPhone news day
August 13th, 2009 at 1:55 am
Yay for snow leopard!! Let’s hope they release 3.1 at the same time! It would be a great day in the world of Apple!
August 13th, 2009 at 2:16 am
And to serve the vast MAJORITY of iPhone users, Rene will have a story tomorrow about Windows 7 being released to MSDN subscribers:
http://tinyurl.com/nu26jt
I’m sure he will….
August 13th, 2009 at 2:51 am
They charge for updates? If Microsoft did this the world will colapse. Lol. Apple idiots will buy it and be happy and never complain. Buy windows and get software updates free for lifetime. And also u can do a lot more things than mac can do. U ppl are brainwashed. Seriously!!!!
August 13th, 2009 at 3:29 am
bite the weenie cj
August 13th, 2009 at 4:29 am
Cj is obviously an idiot. Of course we pay for new software, SnowLeopard is an Operating System, just like Windows XP is an operating System that had to be paid for.
August 13th, 2009 at 5:50 am
CJ hasn’t repiled yet cause his windows OS freezes all the time…
Dip CJ
August 13th, 2009 at 6:16 am
What the hell this have to do with the iPhone?
August 13th, 2009 at 7:10 am
@CJ – Windows users don’t pay for upgrades to a new OS?? Is MS giving out free copies of Windows 7 to XP and Vista users? No! I don’t remember how much the upgrades to 7 are priced at (depends on which version you want) but I can tell you that they are a lot more than $29! Also for everyone asking how this has to do with the iPhone, reread the parts where it talks about the Mac and iPhone utilizing ideas from each other to better both platforms.
August 13th, 2009 at 7:18 am
@CJ:
You think I’d use Windows for a lifetime? Seriousy? I’ve used only Apple computers for twenty-two years. I have real work to do, for godssake! LMAO!
August 13th, 2009 at 7:31 am
@CJ – ….
Woo. I. Can’t. Wait. For. Snow Leopard!!!!!
August 13th, 2009 at 8:06 am
Does anyone know if there is a release date for 10.6 yet?
August 13th, 2009 at 8:09 am
icebike & firststrike: iPhone runs a scaled down version of Mac OSX. No doubt part of the “optimize the code” side to Snow Leopard relates directly to the iPhone OS platform – longer term.
August 13th, 2009 at 9:04 am
@frog: IceBike is a troll. I think he’s an LG Chocolate lover who is forced by his job to use an iPhone and still can’t figure the ******* thing out. No worries Ice. I’ll get my grandmother to show you how so you can stop complaining about all things Apple and go hang out in the LG forum on HoFo where you really belong.
August 13th, 2009 at 9:10 am
@Angelsniper45: Yeah. We get with HTML5 without the extra trojans, viruses and that nasty little “registry” thing you PC guys have going on.
August 13th, 2009 at 10:05 am
@Galloc If I recall correctly from WWDC in June, Bertrand Serlet or whoever was presenting at the time said that September was going to be the release of Snow Leopard. I believe it was mentioned in that keynote if you wanted to go back and watch that part again.
August 13th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
@Frog:
I fully understand the interrelationship of OS X to the iPhone. But reading Rene’s posting makes it sound as if the iPhone OS is contributing as much or more to it’s big brother than the other way around.
OpenCL seems to be the only significant bit that may trickle down to the iPhone, and probably not till the 2010 model is out. The rest seems like trickle up.
So in a way news of the release is no more related to iPhone users as is Win7 or Ubuntu.
Infact the reworked webkit in KDE 4.2 bodes well for mobile safari due to the HTML5 support and dramatic speed improvements.
That’s why I tease Rene about the post.
August 23rd, 2009 at 9:59 am
I have been a Windows user now for over 10 years, which was the last time I actually had a Mac of my own. I work in networking with PC’s and build PC’s, and there are some of you out there who really are lost to what Mac has become. I am sick and tired of Windows because the thing never frickin works. They have to put out updates, and no they do not charge for them but if they did people would go out of their minds. Why charge for something when the original was a piece of trash to begin with? Windows pushes OS’s out there because the ones before them pissed people off, and that is the only reason there is a Windows 7 right now. If people were happy with Vista you would not have seen 7 for another year.
Like I said, I have had enough of doing my computing on PC’s that are less than capable of doing the smallest tasks without crashing. If I am going to go out and build a $1700 computer to put windows on it, why not just buy the cheaper Mac that will do everything I want anyway?
people have misconceptions on Apple computers, and I did as well because the last time I owned one was over 10 years ago. Things have changed, Apple has become a force, and I am in need of a new laptop and as soon as 10.6 is out I am getting one.
It may not be perfect, a computer never is, but at least it will NOT be Windows!