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[Operating systems]| Thursday 20th November 2008 |
In a slide listing the successive OS X releases, Jordan Hubbard has 10.6 as arriving in the first quarter of 2009. Apple had previously said that the next version, known as Snow Leopard, would ship “about a year” after it was announced in June of this year.
One reason for the earlier introduction - if that is indeed the case - maybe the fact that Snow Leopard does not contain any new applications or headline features. Instead it focusses on under-the-hood technologies, designed to provide the basis for generations of the OS to come.
These include Grand Central, which enhances support for multi-core processors, the new Open Computing Language (OpenCL) to allow applications tap into the huge but often unused power of graphics processors and a completely new multimedia engine, QuickTime X.
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