In Snow Leopard, Apple focused on making the OS run faster using technologies like Grand Central Dispatch (which allows a Mac with a multi-core processor to more effectively distribute work among cores) and OpenCL (which allows a Mac's graphics processors to be used for general computing tasks whenever possible), and making all the core system applications and most core components 64-bit.īut before you can appreciate Snow Leopard's performance, user interface refinements, and technology tweaks, you have to get it installed. ![]() That contrasts with its predecessor, Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5), which added more than 300 new features when it was released two years ago. ![]() With a spiffy new installer, the Mac OS X upgrade process is quicker and easier than everĪug(Computerworld) In building Snow Leopard, the latest version of Mac OS X (version 10.6), Apple focused more on under-the-hood improvements to boost speed and stability than on adding new features. ![]() Upgrading to Apple's Snow Leopard OS: What you need to know
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