Apple's Mac OS X Snow Leopard coming on Aug. 28 (photo).Apple will ship its new Mac OS X version, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard snow leopard or ounce Endangered species ( Uncia uncia;) of nocturnal long-haired cat that inhabits the high mountains of Central Asia and India. It is about 6 ft (1.8 m) long, including the 3-ft (1-m) tail, stands about 2 ft (0. , on Friday Friday: see Sabbath; week. Friday young Indian rescued by Crusoe and kept as servant and companion. [Br. Lit.: Robinson Crusoe] See : Servant , Aug. 28, the company's released in its website on Monday. Apple previously unveiled Snow Leopard at its Worlwide Developers Conference in June with the unclear release schedule of "September." Mac OS X Snow Leopard will be available as an upgrade for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard users for $29, and $169 for users of previous versions of the Mac OS (the media-editing suite iLife '09 and the office productivity suite iWork '09 are included in the $169 upgrade). It is available for preorder from Apple's website, as well as at other online retailers starting from today. A server version is also available for $499. People who bought a Mac on or after June 8, 2009, can upgrade to Snow Leopard for $10 directly from Apple (http://www.apple.com/macosx/uptodate/ ). Snow Leopard is the first Mac OS X version to run only on Macs that use Intel CPUs, though it continues to run software designed for the PowerPC chip on Intel-based Macs A Macintosh computer that is powered by Intel x86 CPUs, the same family of chips used in Windows and Linux PCs. See Mactel. if the Rosetta component is installed; Rosetta comes with Mac OS X. Mac OS X Snow Leopard also drops support for the AppleTalk networking protocol that Apple pioneered in the 1980s; AppleTalk brought the first wide use of LANs to PCs in its era. Apple migrated its OS to the TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. protocol a decade ago and has reduced AppleTalk support steadily in the five interrvening versions of Mac OS X. The new Mac OS includes native support for Microsoft's ActiveSync technology, which lets Apple's included e-mail, calendar, and contacts software work directly with Microsoft Exchange Messaging and groupware software for Windows from Microsoft. Exchange Server is an Internet-compliant e-mail system that runs under Windows NT/2000 and Windows Server 2003. It can be accessed by Web browsers, the Exchange client, versions of Outlook and the earlier Windows Inbox. 2007 servers, which are commonly used in business environments. The new Mac OS has dozens of other enhancements and changes, though the basic user interface and functionality remains very similar to that of Mac OS X Leopard See Leopard and Mac OS X. . The biggest changes in Snow Leopard, Apple says, are under the hood under the hood - [hot-rodder talk] 1. The underlying implementation of a product (hardware, software, or idea). Implies that the implementation is not intuitively obvious from the appearance, but the speaker is about to enable the listener to grok it. : a move to 64-bit processing for greater memory support, the implementation of two multiprocessing multiprocessing Mode of computer operation in which two or more processors (see CPU) are connected and are active at the same time. In such a system, each processor is executing a different program or set of instructions, thus increasing computation speed over a technologies (Grand Central Dispatch and OpenCL) so rewritten software applications can take better advantage of multicore processors and graphics coprocessors Graphics hardware that performs various 2D and 3D geometry and rendering functions, offloading the main CPU from performing such tasks. This typically refers to a very high-end graphics subsystem, but may also refer to a graphics accelerator. See graphics accelerator. for faster performance, and revamped QuickTime video processing Video processing techniques are used in video codecs, video players and other devices. For example—commonly only design and video processing is different in TV sets of different manufactures. and Java processing engines. (Java is commonly used to provide browser-based applications.) Microsoft, Apple's rival, is to release the newest version of Windows 7 on Oct. 22. <div class="imageBox" style="width: 450px;"><img id="2501" class="imgPhoto" src="http://img.ibtimes.com/www/data/articles/full/2009/08/24/2501.jpg" alt="Apple's Mac OS X Snow Leopard (Credit: screenshot See screen shot. from Apple.com)" width="450" /> <div class="caption">Apple's Mac OS X Snow Leopard (Credit: screenshot from Apple.com)</div> </div> <div class="imageBox" style="width: 450px;"><img id="2502" class="imgPhoto" src="http://img.ibtimes.com/www/data/articles/full/2009/08/24/2502.jpg" alt="Apple's Mac OS X Snow Leopard (Credit: screenshot from Apple.com)" width="450" /> <div class="caption">Apple's Mac OS X Snow Leopard (Credit: screenshot from Apple.com)</div> </div> <div class="imageBox" style="width: 450px;"><img id="2503" class="imgPhoto" src="http://img.ibtimes.com/www/data/articles/full/2009/08/24/2503.jpg" alt="Apple's Mac OS X Snow Leopard (Credit: screenshot from Apple.com)" width="450" /> <div class="caption">Apple's Mac OS X Snow Leopard (Credit: screenshot from Apple.com)</div> </div> <div class="imageBox" style="width: 450px;"><img id="2504" class="imgPhoto" src="http://img.ibtimes.com/www/data/articles/full/2009/08/24/2504.jpg" alt="Apple's Mac OS X Snow Leopard (Credit: screenshot from Apple.com)" width="450" /> <div class="caption">Apple's Mac OS X Snow Leopard (Credit: screenshot from Apple.com)</div> </div> |
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