In the meantime, we get to see what the basic core Grand Central technologies can do….and it’s a very impressive thing to say the least. But that’s some time away weeks, at a minimum, we’re told.
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Within the next two months at the outside, reliable sources highly placed within software development leadership at Infinite Loop say that the finalized Finder with an overhauled Cocoa codebase and a long list of architectural improvements as well as a small amount of visible streamlining will be fully integrated with the developer seeds being sent out. Clearly, in Snow Leopard 10A261 the Finder is benefitting from Grand Central enhancements under the hood and the many other improvements such as OpenCL’s greater ability to bring in the GPU’s muscle on a far wider range of operations than any previous version of OS X (which is saying something given the fact that no competitor has even yet today managed to compete with the original Quartz Extreme, to say nothing of present-day Core Graphics)….but even the most superficial probings into how the Finder is operating in these builds, as well the visual experience of using it hands-on, show it to be well short of what we have been led to expect in the new Finder. Until then, we will hang on every report of its reputed awesomeness and await the opportunity to tell you more - not to mention eagerly anticipating seeing it with our own eyes….Īside from that introductory film, the biggest feature that we are anticipating but haven’t yet seen is the new refined Finder. So far, we’ve been told that may not happen until the film is incorporated into late builds of Snow Leopard as part of the final complete-package testing…but that is weeks if not months away.
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Granted, the number of new bundled applications and other routine major-release add-ons is far fewer than we’ve become accustomed to in previous versions of OS X, but in terms of the overall value that users will receive there can be little doubt - Snow Leopard is the operating system that Mac OS X was always meant to be.Īs we’ll be similarly discussing in an upcoming article with regards to the Intel Core i7 “Nehalem” platform that Snow Leopard has been optimized in paralell with (and for)….2009 is the year that the full promise of the Mac platform that Steve Jobs, Avie Tevanian and Jonathan Ive have shaped since their triumphant return to/arrival at Infinite Loop in 1997, is truly realized.īooting up the builds that various team members have had the chance to work with so far, the user is presented with a placeholder for the new “installation movie” - if you thought that OS X 10.5 Leopard’s post-install animation and associated soundtrack was impressive, we’ve been told by more than a few sources “you ain’t seen nothin’ yet!” but are still waiting on a leak of the film itself. To begin with, let’s review the straightforward nature of Snow Leopard’s mission: eschewing “innovation” at the user level for primarily under-the-hood upgrades, Snow Leopard is a one-year project that Apple has embarked on to catch up with its backlog of ambitious architectural and technological plans for the Mac OS X operating system.Īlthough focused primarily on optimization and the adoption of new hardware driven technologies like multi-core CPUs (GrandCentral) and advanced programmable GPUs (OpenCL), Snow Leopard does include a number of new software technologies - including a few that will be quite apparent from the user level and which will account for a visible feature set nearly as impressive as any OS release we’ve ever seen. We have modified this first Sneak Peek to incorporate some of these reports, notably on the most recent 10A261 seed, and will be posting smaller more frequent Snow Leopard updates in the days ahead. Even as Mac OS Rumors worked to prepare our first in-depth look at developmental “alpha” stage builds of Mac OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard” earlier this week…the first builds (10A250 and later) seeded to third-party developers in quite some time and the first to be nearly feature-complete hit the grapevine like a shock wave.
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