Digital Cross Fire

Hey guys, its my first blog post so I though I’d make it interesting ;). Apple has just released some info on their new OS X, Snow Leopard. At first looks it seems as if it’s just an addition to there current OS X, Leopard. Does the name hint at the future of it? I would have to say so. Snow Leopard isn’t getting all fancy-smanchy like with the jump from tiger to Leopard but instead will refine what great material they already have in front of them. “A Quantum Leap” as explained on the official Apple site; they are going with “Core Innovations” to give Leopard that extra boost it needs every now and then. Let’s face it mac users, it’s not a pretty sight looking at that rainbow swirl (Color Wheel of Death) when you know the program is frozen. With Snow Leopard’s upgraded core software it saves up on initial hard drive space that it must gobble up to run and lets you use it on more important things like unrelated word documents and crazy photos of last nights’ party. If you’re a Mac gamer then get ready to blow your mind because with 64-bit OS X support you can use up to a theoretical 16TB of RAM. Now lets get real, who in there right mind would be able to utilize that massive amount of power? That is a godly amount of pure technological goodness! Snow Leopard will also support more multiple cores and be able to squeeze ever last drop of processing power out of them so you get more bang for the buck before you even overclock. You’ve heard of OpenGL, now get ready for OpenCL (Open Computing Language).  Now you can tap into you GPU to get things done even quicker by using it for more general purpose computing. And if that wasn’t good enough we now have Quicktime X which has got to better right? Just look at that big-ol’ X, it makes every thing better! Quicktime X is more streamlined and boosts it’s Internet potential while making playback even smoother. For all those Firefox haters out there they even hopped up Safari to run JavaScript up to 53% faster making online applications more responsive. That means a lot less Color Wheel folks! Well I hope you enjoyed this post, I know I sure had fun writing it.

- Nick Out ^-^