Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard – January 2009?
Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 debuted in October 2007. We’ve seen a lot of new functionality and a revamped UI. After no more than half a year, the Internet stays true to its roots — we found a lot of data and rumors about the upcoming release, Mac OS X version 10.6. According to a recent article at OSnews, numerous sources state the name of the new release will be ‘Snow Leopard’. So let’s take a look at what kind of Apple goodness could await us in the first month of 2009.
Although it will be a new release, don’t expect anything revolutionary. Snow Leopard’s development team is supposedly focusing on improving speed, stability and getting rid of nasty bugs. We certainly hope it’ll fix a lot of problems the 10.5.3 Leopard update caused. With the new release, PowerPC support may finally be dropped. Snow Leopard will work only on 64-bit Intel Macs. With dropped legacy support, some blogs think that Apple is shifting its focus on the cutting-edge of computer technology. Will we see an Atom-based Apple subnotebook?
Ars Technica also said the new OS X may be shifting to a Cocoa-only wrap. Bad time for Carbon, but supposedly a good time for Objective-C developers.
When will we get a taste of Snow Leopard, you ask? Well, most sources claim there will be a developer seeding at the 2008 Worldwide Developers Conference. Just don’t get too excited.
Intel only, nice…
but, what about Office 2004?
Would they drop rosseta? One more day, we will know.
I think they cannot drop it already.
It seems that it will still support PPC
From screen shots I’ve seen, it also supports 32-bit Intel processors as the person who captured the screen shots was running on a Core Duo, not Core 2 Duo, processor.
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