We've seen a lot of changes since Apple released Mac OS X back in early 2001. Jaguar (10.2), Panther (10.3), Tiger (10.4), and Leopard (10.5) all presented something new. But as we learned thus far at WWDC 2008...we're not to expect some 300 new features as Leopard brought us. No, clearly Apple's head is in another place. Steve Jobs let out in his keynote that Mac OS X 10.6 was to be dubbed Snow Leopard. Could this incline to Apple being a bunch of pussies? Or that cats are agile, quick, streamlined, and beautiful? From reading a bit on Apple's Snow Leopard site, one can quickly gather that they are doing everything but backing down. Apple pointed out that Snow Leopard will have a emphasis on Microsoft Exchange capability, 64bit kernel allowing a theoretical 16TB of RAM, Multicore Processors, Media and OpenCL. OpenCL is the key here. They claim OpenCL "makes it possible for developers to efficiently tap the vast gigaflops of computing power currently locked up in the graphics processing unit." Wikipedia also pointed me in the direction of a new project at Intel, Larabee. And the tech gods said "let there be light!"
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