Apple Snow Leopard set for Mideast launch.Byline: Dubai Apple has announced that its Mac OS X v10.6 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. will go on sale by first week of September in the Middle East. The product will be sold through Arab Business Machine (ABM ABM: see guided missile. ABM - Asynchronous Balanced Mode )'s network of Apple authorized premium resellers, Apple authorized resellers and Apple authorized retailers. Snow Leopard builds on a decade of OS X innovation and success with hundreds of refinements, new core technologies and out of the box support for 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. . Snow Leopard will be available as an upgrade for Mac OS X Leopard See Leopard and Mac OS X. users for Dh 139 or $38. "Snow Leopard builds on our most successful operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. ever and we're happy to get it to users earlier than expected," said Bertrand Serlet, Apple's senior vice president of Software Engineering. "For just $38, Leopard users get a smooth upgrade to the world's most advanced operating system and the only system with built in Exchange support." To create Snow Leopard, Apple engineers refined 90 percent of the more than 1,000 projects that make up Mac OS X. Users will notice refinements including a more responsive Finder; Mail that loads messages up to twice as fast; Time Machine with an up to 80 percent faster initial backup; a Dock with ExposE[umlaut umlaut (  m`lout) [Ger.,=transformed sound], in inflection, variation of vowels of the type of English man to men. ] integration; QuickTime X with
a redesigned player that allows users to easily view, record, trim and
share video; and a 64-bit version of Safari 4 that is up to 50 percent
faster and resistant to crashes caused by plug-ins.
Snow Leopard is half the size of the previous version and frees up to 7GB of drive space once installed, said a statement. For the first time, system applications including Finder, Mail, iCal, iChat and Safari are 64-bit and Snow Leopard's support for 64-bit processors makes use of large amounts of RAM, increases performance and improves security while remaining compatible with 32-bit applications. Grand Central Dispatch (GCD gcd abbr. greatest common divisor ) provides a revolutionary new way for software developers to write applications that take advantage of multicore processors. OpenCL, a C-based open standard, allows developers to tap the incredible power of the graphics processing unit See GPU. for tasks that go beyond graphics, it said. - TradeArabia News Service Copyright 2008 www.tradearabia.com Copyright 2009 Al Hilal Publishing & Marketing Group Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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