Sunday, 19 June 2011

Snow Leopard distributed to beta testers

While the development of Windows 7 advance to the Release Candidate,
which rumors have announced the arrival in April, Apple also continues
work on Snow Leopard. In spring, without real information, the new Mac
OS X must provide a breath of freshness in the foundations of the
system. The Cupertino company has just given to selected testers a new
beta version.

Stamped precisely 10A261, beta apparently does not change much
"visible". It should be recalled that Snow Leopard is not intended to
be clearly different. Apple focuses on the foundations of his system
and renovating part of the code, in addition to getting rid of the
legacy PowerPC and completely redo parts of the system, including
QuickTime.

The new beta is a priori more stable than previous versions. Apple
officially calls testers to focus on some particular areas, including
connectivity with Exchange servers, since it is implemented in Mail,
iCal and Address Book. The Italian site Macity indicates that some
changes emerge in the system settings.

Recall that two of the main news of Snow Leopard is Grand Central and
OpenCL. The latter, recently finalized, is a language allowing the
operating system or an application to calculate the graphics card
transactions in normal times would be managed by the central
processor. Grand Central is to allow applications to better take
advantage of multiple processor cores.

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