MacBook Pro with 2 NVIDIA GPUs? WHY!?
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence — ... is saying that the new MacBook Pros will have 2 NVIDIA GPUs.  A lot of people are wondering why 2?  Perhaps it has a lot to do with Snow Leopard and Open CL: ...

★ Contains Spoilers
Daring Fireball — ... (Recall, too, that taking advantage of GPUs for system-wide performance gains is one of the main focal points for Snow Leopard. Snow Leopard’s OpenCL allows applications to offload general computing tasks to the GPU. Or, I guess, the GPUs, plural.) ...

Yes, Virginia, you do have to log out to switch graphics cards on the MBP
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... comes along it should include the capability to offload general-purpose computing tasks to the GPU, which could provide exponential performance increases for certain apps. Having an extra GPU sitting around waiting to be harnessed starts to seem like a really good idea when considered in that context. ...

What’s in a name?
Redmond Pie — ... . And System 6 wasn’t OS X, so technically, Mac OS started from version 7.6. Could this get anymore confusing?? I hope Jason Kincaid has an answer to this. The Windows naming scheme is far simpler then Apple’s or any other OS I know. How about this as well, if you can’t find any name for your next OS after Leopard? Name it Snow Leopard! What next, ...

No FireWire over Ethernet; but maybe in Snow Leopard
The Apple Core — ... Apple could implemtent FireWire over Ethernet by the time Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6) is released. Those carrying pitchforks and torches on their way to Cupertino need to remember that Apple is still selling the ...

Apple Patent Applications Support Snow Leopard's Promise Of Speed
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — Apple has said its forthcoming Mac OS X 10.6 operating system, known as " Snow Leopard ," will focus on performance, stability, and resource efficiency, rather than features. Three patent applications published on Thursday support that promise by describing improved techniques for executing computer code on multiple multicore central processing units and graphics processing units. The software industry hadn't yet caught up to the chip industry's move to multicore processors, which began in earnest in 2005. Many software developers haven't been trained to write code that's ...

Patente da Apple fornece detalhes de como o Mac OS X Snow Leopard trará melhor performance para aplicativos
BLOG.MACMAGAZINE — ... Pouco se falou, até o momento, de como o Mac OS X Snow Leopard poderá trazer melhor desempenho aos aplicativos desenvolvidos por terceiros, sem falar no sistema em si e seus serviços e aplicações, que já aparentam estar mais leves e rápidos, enquanto a Apple ainda prefere falar pouco sobre o que estará no seu próximo sistema operacional. ...

Espionage Brings “Tricksy” Folder Encryption to OS X
TheAppleBlog — ... . I also use TrueCrypt when I need to ensure my disks are fully protected. I strongly suggest, however, that you do watch for future updates to Espionage as the developers will no doubt work the kinks out of this initial release and provide a very solid solution to fill the gap left by Apple. Since I am not aware of any features of Snow Leopard that will obsolete the functionality of Espionage, it should continue to fill this gap through the next release of Apple’s desktop operating system. ...

Apple's Snow Leopard vs Windows 7: vital differences you need to know
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — ... If you need any guidance on the precise differences between Apple's upcoming revision of OSX, called Snow Leopard, and the also upcoming revision of Windows Vista, carefully codenamed ...

Early Snow Leopard in Q1 2008?
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence — It looks like Snow Leopard might be coming a bit earlier than expected if slides from Apple's Director of Engineering of Unix Technologies, Jordan Hubbard are to be believed.  The presentation was given at LISA '08 last week in San Diego.   Originally planned for "about a year" from WWDC 2008 (July), the change of schedule would be a significant bump in expections from people outside of Apple.  While Q1 extends to the end of March, this could also indicate that we'll see new Snow Leopard introductions at ...

Apple exec: Mac OS X Snow Leopard to be released first quarter of 2009
MacDailyNews — ... . MacDailyNews Note: Apple's Snow Leopard webpage states that the OS is "scheduled to ship in about a year." The webpage debuted in June 2008.

Snow Lep Prep: Apple files trademark application for ‘Grand Central’
MacDailyNews — ... . MacDailyNews Note: From Apple's Mac OS X Snow Leopard webpage: "Grand Central,” a new set of technologies built into Snow Leopard, brings unrivaled support for multicore systems to Mac OS X. More cores, not faster clock speeds, drive performance increases in today’s processors. Grand Central takes full advantage by making all of Mac OS X multicore aware and optimizing it for allocating tasks across multiple cores and processors. Grand Central also makes it much easier for developers to create programs that squeeze every last drop of power from multicore systems. ...

Apple excited as The Khronos Group ratifies OpenCL 1.0 specification
MacDailyNews — ... and are able to accelerate the delivery of their cutting-edge media platforms and applications through early access to specification drafts and conformance tests. Khronos, OpenKODE, OpenVG, and OpenMAX are trademarks of the Khronos Group Inc. OpenCL is a trademark of Apple Inc., COLLADA is a trademark of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and OpenGL is a registered trademark of Silicon Graphics Inc. used under license by Khronos. Source: Khronos Group MacDailyNews Note: From Apple's Mac OS X Snow Leopard webpage: Another powerful Snow Leopard technology, OpenCL (Open ...

Could Snow Leopard leave Windows 7 eating it’s dust?
Hardware 2.0 — ... OpenCL has a huge industry-following: 3DLABS, Activision Blizzard, AMD, Apple, ARM, Barco, Broadcom, Codeplay, Electronic Arts, Ericsson, Freescale, HI, IBM, Intel Corporation, Imagination Technologies, Kestrel Institute, Motorola, Movidia, Nokia, NVIDIA, QNX, RapidMind, Samsung, Seaweed, TAKUMI, Texas Instruments and Umeå University. Now, notice how Apple is on that List and that Microsoft is not. That’s of interest because Apple is scheduled to bring OpenCL to the desktop. In fact, Apple is already pushing the benefits of OpenCL : Another powerful Snow Leopard technology, ...

Apple gets trademark on the "Grand Central" Snow Leopard feature
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... Snow Leopard, they also detailed a new developer service that can be used to full take advantage of the dual cores in newer Intel Macs. The Apple website tells us the following about GrandCentral: ...

Leaked OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Snows 32-bit Mode [Apple]
Gizmodo — ... German mag Sevenmac Magazin got themselves a bunch of shots of Apple's new OS X update, Snow Leopard, and it looks to show that you may need to reboot between 32 and 64-bit modes. ...

Leaked OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Screenshot Shows 32-bit Mode [Apple]
Gizmodo — ... German mag Sevenmac Magazin got themselves a bunch of shots of Apple's new OS X update, Snow Leopard, and it looks to show that you may need to reboot between 32 and 64-bit modes. ...

More Shots of OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Leak (Some German Required) [Apple]
Gizmodo — ... German mag Sevenmac Magazin got themselves a bunch of shots of Apple's new OS X update, Snow Leopard, and it looks to be the real deal. ...

Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard' makes a video appearance
Betanews — ... , Apple's Jordan Hubbard gave a presentation which included a slide saying that Snow Leopard was slated for a Q1 2009 release. The OS update is comprised mainly of un-flashy improvements that are geared toward increased performance and optimization of the new hardware architecture of the latest Macs. German blog Sevenmac.de received videos and screenshots of 10.6, which include the developer preview of Safari 4 in use, and the Exchange-compatible address book. Again, there's nothing dramatically different about Snow Leopard on the surface, other than the activity monitor ...

OS X Snow Leopard Pr0n Leaked onto the Interwebs.
Mac|Life all RSS Feed — ... of its own, and ended up having that video posted all over a German website. Sie sind ein schmutziger kleiner vogel... Snow Leopard. As expected, Snow Leopard will have few changes as far as visuals go, while most improvements will be under its skirt. Some sexy new tech to look forward to is Grand Central and OpenCL which will allow developers to easily tap into the multi-core CPUs and GPUs found in Macs. As you may already know, Apple is expected to update the new iMacs and Mac minis with the latest NVIDIA chips found in current MacBook and MacBook Pros. Soon all new Macs ...

Apple Mac OS X 10.6 ‘Snow Leopard’ - Video
D' Technology Weblog — ... Apple’s Jordan Hubbard gave a presentation at WWDC, which included a slide saying that Snow Leopard was slated for a Q1 2009 release. The OS update is comprised mainly of un-flashy improvements that are geared toward increased performance and optimization of the new hardware architecture of the latest Macs. ...

Top 10 Macworld rumors for 2009
Brainstorm Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine » Apple 2.0 — ... that it was coming, Apple’s official description of the product and a steady stream of leaks from the developer community. What we don’t know is when it will ship. ...

Mac OS X Snow Leopard: What price?
The Apple Core — ... bump, but not a $99 upgrade.” (All of the developers requested their discussion be without attribution.) Another developer agreed that Snow Leopard would be a “tough sell” as an update. However, the cost question was important to developers’ plans and for customer support.“Will it be it free,  or a $29 update? That answer will define on our end whether we can use any [new] APIs and how we will continue to support Leopard and Tiger.” A third developer at the table said that Apple’s framing of the Snow Leopard update may provide a clue. Since 2001, Mac OS X has delivered more ...

OS X Snow Leopard to feature built-in QuickTime Pro functions
Obsessable News Feed — ... This all looks tied to the release of QuickTime X, which Apple will be introducing in Snow Leopard. All Apple has revealed about the software is that it will have better support for "modern media and Internet standards", though we didn't realize that the currently-available QuickTime 7.6 had any problems handling modern video formats. ...

Is the Macintosh tide ebbing?
TechBlog — ... . Apple, of course, is working on an update of its own operating system, but it doesn't do public betas. So, while Snow Leopard is expected to have some impressive, mostly under-the-hood improvements, it doesn't have much excitement outside of ...

Sophisticated new technique could allow for stealthier Mac attacks
MacDailyNews — ... . MacDailyNews Note: Apple's Mac OS X Snow Leopard information webpage was posted online in June 2008 and has always stated, "scheduled to ship in about a year." This puts Mac OS X Snow Leopard's release around June 2009, less than 4 months from now, not "in 2010." As for Iozzo's technique: it's interesting, but nothing much to worry about right now, if ever, and should ultimately help Apple to bolster Mac OS X's already very robust security.

Snow Leopard: Twitterverse abuzz with latest Live Search image
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews — ... .  Now we’re wondering if today’s image is a sly wink at Apple, just a coincidence, or if the Live Search folks in Redmond really pay more attention to the fauna of SE Asia than they do to ...

Will Apple update its desktops this month?
TechBlog — ... since the big desktop's initial release. I'll go a step further and add my own speculation: I think we may also see an announcement about the upcoming release of Snow Leopard, the next version of the Mac OS X . One of the new under-the-hood features in Snow Leopard is ...

Hearing the Growls of Location Targeting
BIA/Kelsey Blog — ... that Apple’s upcoming OS Snow Leopard will have location awareness as an extension of its existing relationship with Skyhook on the iPhone. Makes sense. ...

Mac News Weekly - #70
GeekBrief.TV — ... - Snow Leopard should be coming out this spring, and we are seeing some end-user features like Quicktime and time-support being added to the beta copies. ...

Apple to Release Snow Leopard on 08-Jun-09?
Gear Diary — ... , and haven’t had a chance to say anything about this until now.  Sorry… Real Life intrusions can suck sometimes. On top of that, I noticed the date… very close to when Apple was going to make its big announcements on 3/17, so I decided to hang out to see if any information about Snow Leopard might also come out on 3.0 Day.  It didn’t, not even in the Q&A period; oh well… ...

Will Apple lose its power to drive market trends?
TG Daily - All News — ... Before OpenCL we had separate efforts from Nvidia and AMD's ATI group. Each of these efforts, while impressive in terms of potential, wasn't making any headway with mainstream applications, because they were incompatible with each other and few (outside of research groups that needed cheap super-computers) wanted to create applications that only ran on Nvidia or ATI graphics cards. Apple saw the concept as compelling and realized it could be a huge driver for future platforms like Snow Leopard , but there was no way they were going to support two non-standard technologies. So ...

Opinion: Apple Still Drives the Technology Innovation Bus
Cult of Mac — ... * The elegance of the user experience in Mac OS X virtually doomed OEMs’ embrace of Linux to a competition not with Apple but with Windows, an outcome which will affect the introduction of Google’s Android when it comes to market next year as well. ...

Will Snow Leopard's UI be darker, slimmer?
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... ) but the speculation on Snow Leopard is in full swing. Developers have had builds of Snow Leopard for a while now, but according to AppleInsider there are some interface tweaks that have yet to be unveiled. ...

All-White Leica Special Edition M8 is Gorgeous
Wired: Gadget Lab — ... The White M8 seems, now, to be called just that — “white”. This is dull, so I suggest another name. Snow Leopard. Catchy, huh? Wait, what do you mean, it’s taken? ...

Why Snow Leopard Should Be (Almost) Free
TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us — ... At some point in the next two to six months, Apple will unleash their latest big cat: Mac OS X Snow Leopard. It's no secret - Apple has been talking about Snow Leopard for ages, with particular emphasis on how Snow Leopard will focus on performance, efficiency, and "core innovation" rather than user-focused features. ...

Mossberg on Windows 7 & Snow Leopard Upgrading
dailywireless.org — Walt Mossberg sez, if you’re shopping for a computer now, consider that both Microsoft and Apple will upgrade their current Operating Systems with major new versions: Windows 7 and Mac OS X Snow Leopard. And that affects what PC hardware you should choose. ...

Code freeze on Snow Leopard APIs issued
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... For now, your guess is as good as ours as to when Snow Leopard will be released. In the meantime, you can browse Apple's Snow Leopard web pages (which went up in June of '08 believe it or not) or catch up on ...

Apple’s WWDC to kick off with keynote address led by Phill Schiller on June 8
MacDailyNews — ... , the world's most advanced mobile operating system, and Mac OS X Snow Leopard , an even more powerful and refined version of the world's best desktop operating system and the foundation for future Mac innovation. "Last June, we gave developers an early look at the powerful new technologies that form the underpinnings of ...

Purported Snow Leopard videos surface on YouTube
Macworld — ... for a while now, but what about the other main event at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference: Mac OS X 10.6, known to you and me as Snow Leopard? News about Snow Leopard has been thin, with the little that Apple has told us focused on the under-the-hood features: 64-bit technology, ...

Speculation About Upcoming WWDC
The Mac Lawyer — ... (WWDC), which will be held June 8–12 in San Francisco, CA. Most experts agree that there will be a focus on Snow Leopard, the next generation of Apple's ...

Windows 7 Versus Mac OS X Leopard: The Feature-by-Feature Showdown [Lifehacker Faceoff]
Lifehacker — ... Leopard 10.5.7. You could argue that I really should be comparing Windows 7 to the upcoming Snow Leopard , and you'd be right. If I had a copy of Snow Leopard to run I'd do that. Alas. As always, take all comments salted with a few grains of "this is all one person's opinion" and "what I should get depends on what I need." Also, remember to breathe. Let's do this. Mac Finder versus ...

Windows 7 Versus Mac OS X Leopard: The Feature-by-Feature Showdown [Lifehacker Faceoff]
Lifehacker — ... Leopard 10.5.7. You could argue that I really should be comparing Windows 7 to the upcoming Snow Leopard , and you'd be right. If I had a copy of Snow Leopard to run I'd do that. Alas. As always, take all comments salted with a few grains of "this is all one person's opinion" and "what I should get depends on what I need." Also, remember to breathe. Let's do this. Mac Finder versus ...

WWDC Preview
Macworld — ... or an audio comments in the form of an AAC or MP3 file. You can also leave us a message at 415/520-9761 if you’d like to have your comments included in a future podcast. Show Notes In the first half of our WWDC discussion, we talk a lot about Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). If you’d like more information about this cat, visit Apple’s Snow Leopard web page as well as Macworld’s own ...

WWDC Preview
Macworld — ... or an audio comments in the form of an AAC or MP3 file. You can also leave us a message at 415/520-9761 if you’d like to have your comments included in a future podcast. Show Notes In the first half of our WWDC discussion, we talk a lot about Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). If you’d like more information about this cat, visit Apple’s Snow Leopard web page as well as Macworld’s own ...

WWDC Preview: What we know, what we expect with Snow Leopard
Macworld — ... senior vice president of Software Engineering, said at the time, “In our continued effort to deliver the best user experience, we hit the pause button on new features to focus on perfecting the world’s most advanced operating system.” This means that Snow Leopard will be unlike any other major OS X release in that features won’t be the primary selling point. That doesn’t mean, of course, absolutely no new features. As of now, however, Apple has disclosed only five new features for Snow Leopard , two of which will be immediately apparent to the typical user. First, Snow Leopard ...

WWDC: Apple shipping new versions of Safari web browser and QuickTime video player
VentureBeat — ... Serlet cracked some jokes about Vista, saying that Microsoft has dug itself into a big hole with the operating system and still hasn’t fixed things with the upcoming Windows 7, due out later this year. Serlet said Safari 4 will be built into Snow Leopard, the latest version of the Mac operating system. Safari 4 is 100 percent compatible with web standard Acid3, Serlet said. ...

WWDC: Apple to cut price of newest Mac OS to $29
VentureBeat — ... The new Mac operating system, Snow Leopard, will be priced at just $29, more than $100 off the previous version. The new operating system will be available in September. ...

Apple Announcements at WWDC 09
dailywireless.org — ... Snow Leopard OS. All the major system apps run in 64-bit mode in Snow Leopard. Today they’re making a dev preview available. It will be available this September and will cost $29 for Leopard users, with a family pack for $49. ...

Apple announces price and date for Mac OS X Snow Leopard
Download Squad — ... Apple's official web pages have yet to be updated with the pricing details or more information beyond the original holding pages, however in today's WWDC keynote Apple confirmed dates, pricing and some more features - as well as confirming that Mac OS X Snow Leopard is indeed going to only run on Intel-based Macs. ...

Mac OS X Snow Leopard: Apple announces price and release date
D' Technology Weblog — ... 10.6) will be available in September for $29 (if you're upgrading from Mac OS X Leopard), with Family Packs for up to 5 computers costing just $49 - again, if you're upgrading from 10.5. If you're running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger on an Intel machine, the options are between a Mac Box Set (featuring Snow Leopard, iLife '09 and iWork '09) for $169 or 5-User Family Pack which brings you the iLife, iWork and Snow Leopard package for $229. More info: Snow Leopard ...