Source : MacRumorsDuring the recent Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA '08), Jordan Hubbard, Apple's Director of Engineering of Unix Technologies, spoke about the evolution of Mac OS X from large servers to embedded platforms. But the most surprising information was the announcement of a more specific target date for the release of Apple's Mac OS X 10.6 (aka Snow Leopard): Q1 2009.
We are convinced that this information is true, and in addition it would allow apple to release its new OS month ahead of Microsoft Windows 7 expected to arrive mid 2009. With the improvement of multi-core management as well as the support for GPGPU, Snow Leopard should bring a real boost for the recently released multi-core-based Macs. AS Mac and PC are now based on a very similar hardware, users and customers will finally be able to evaluate the true power of Mac OS X and applications developed for it when comparing to t
