Apple Freezes Snow Leopard APIs

DJRumpy writes in to alert us that Apple's new OS, Snow Leopard, is apparently nearing completion. "Apple this past weekend distributed a new beta of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard that altered the programming methods used to optimize code for multi-core Macs, telling developers they were the last programming-oriented changes planned ahead of the software's release. ...`Apple is said to have informed recipients of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard build 10A354 that it has simplified the`... APIs for working with Grand Central, a new architecture that makes it easier for developers to take advantage of Macs with multiple processing cores. This technology works by breaking complex tasks into smaller blocks, which are then`... dispatched efficiently to a Mac's available cores for faster processing."

Comments

Re:Why would my Mom upgrade to Snow Leopard?

[pandrijeczko]

Maybe you like the MS upgrade cycle, but look at all the bad press they get for it... you can hardly blame Apple for wishing to avoid that.

Erm, so what is this Windows XP installation that I have been using since XP Service Pack 1 that I have *incrementally upgraded* through to Service Pack 3 with all the additional Microsoft updates then?

I'm no MS fanboi by any means, I use mostly (incrementally upgradeable) Gentoo Linux - but I wish you Apple fanbois would occasionally go read a technical book or something so that you can at least have some degree of intelligent conversation with those of us who do.

Re:Why would my Mom upgrade to Snow Leopard?

[jcnnghm]

$117.49 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116515) for XP Pro SP3 is less than the $129 (http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC094) for the Leopard upgrade. Blind adoration won't get you anywhere.