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Apple May Release Snow Leopard Sooner Than Expected

Posted 12/22/2008 at 2:54:17pm | by Florence Ion

It looks like the rumors may be true--Apple could be debuting Snow Leopard at this year’s Macworld Expo after all. The company and its partners have been dropping hints to developers that its new operating system will ship earlier than expected.

The new Snow Leopard will debut technology that will increase processing power without having to make any significant changes to the hardware. The new technology will include Grand Central, designed to make efficient use of the Intel processors, and OpenCL, which was developed by Apple to tap into the power of the graphics processor (GPU).

Apple could be pushing for an earlier launch because Microsoft is working on the next version of its own operating system, Windows 7. There could be a rush to beat the competitors to the punch before the proposed release of Windows 7 in June.

Though Snow Leopard could be one of the highlights at Macworld, the software won’t be available to consumers until a few months later.

COMMENTS: 8

TAGS: Mac OS X, Snow Leopard

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PowerPC support?
Submitted by MacSince87 on Mon, 2008-12-22 13:00

Any idea whether SnowLeopard will run on older PowerPC chips? I have a PowerBook G4 that still works great (even after 5 years). I've kept OS X updated and am currently running 10.5.6.

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Unfortunately,
Submitted by ebrainer1 on Mon, 2008-12-22 13:58

I'm afraid it's going to be intel only.

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I may be wrong...
Submitted by rattyuk on Mon, 2008-12-22 16:09

"OpenCL, which was developed by Nvidia to tap into the power of the graphics processor"

But I'm pretty certain that OpenCL was developed by Apple and then handed back to the development community. You should really do your homework as a "Mac" site.

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You are correct.
Submitted by Roberto Baldwin on Mon, 2008-12-22 21:33

OpenGL was indeed developed by Apple. Sorry about the confusion.
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Sorry about that. OpenGL and
Submitted by Fion on Tue, 2008-12-23 12:51

Sorry about that. OpenGL and OpenCL can get confusing.
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interesting indeed
Submitted by emoryu21 on Mon, 2008-12-22 17:13

This is interesting. I'm on board for beta testing Windows 7. Though I am far more interested in beta testing for Apple, I've been a Microsoft beta tester for a few years now. If Apple does push Snow Leopard sooner than we were expecting it will surely put pressure on Microsoft. Of course I only want Snow Leopard to be pushed sooner than expected if it's ready, not before.

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Just like 8.5
Submitted by CaptainV45 on Wed, 2008-12-24 06:29

It seems Snow Leopard will be just like Mac OS 8.5 which left behind any non PowerPC Macs in favor of a better and faster OS.

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