![]() ![]() “I mean, two, yeah four, not really eight, forget it.”Īccording to Jobs, Apple has made a parallel-programming breakthrough. “The way the processor industry is going is to add more and more cores, but nobody knows how to program those things,” he said. "We’re going to hit the pause button on new features." ![]() ![]() "We've added over a thousand features to Mac OS X in the last five years," he said Monday in an interview after his presentation. Steve Jobs provided some information on Apple's direction: The New York Times, however, reveals that Snow Leopard's big focus is taking advantage of the recent trend towards multi-core and parallel computer processes. Other features listed on Apple's site were largely touched on in the press release. Apple promises that Snow Leopard "dramatically reduces the footprint of Mac OS X, making it even more efficient for users, and giving them back valuable hard drive space for their music and photos." Some early screenshots from the Developer seed of Snow Leopard do indeed show significantly smaller application file sizes over current Leopard installations. Apple has posted pages for Mac OS X Snow Leopard for both server and client and describe a bit of what users can expect from the next OS X release. ![]()
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