And it'd probably result in a bigger performance boost than buying $130-worth of hardware. I personally would pay full price for an update that "unlocked" my graphics card for use as an extra core though. I have heard some people say that performance and stability should be in Leopard anyway so the update should be free (which I disagree with). Consumers might be hard to win over if there are no new features so Apple may adopt lower pricing. There have been rumors that 10.6 will be Intel-only but this report neither confirms nor denies this.Īlso, there is no word on price. This free course, Open education, is an example of a massive open online course (MOOC) and spans seven weeks. And the "modern audio and video formats" bit makes me wonder if Windows formats such as WMV are supported out of the box, without requiring something like Flip4Mac. 1 Openness in education Apple Mac Os X 10 6 Snow Leopard Server Update There are many different flavours or interpretations of what openness means in education. That's a little vague so I'm wondering if there is some kind of GPU acceleration involved. To play WMV, FLV and AVI in quicktime X (Not sure if Flip4Mac or Perian makes any difference) Right clip on said format, and Get Info (Or click, and CMD+I) then under open With, just change it. * QuickTime X - "optimizes support for modern audio and video formats resulting in extremely efficient media playback". But how much can each application address? It will be interesting to see how developers take advantage of this but it could use your graphics card as an extra processing core when rendering and encoding for example. * OpenCL support - Enables developers to use the processing power of the GPU to perform tasks. This makes it much easier for developers to create multi-core optimized applications (FCP dev team, I'm looking at you.) * Multi-core optimizations with a new technology called Grand Central. I think a lot of people will be disappointed by the lack of features but this is great for people who demand high performance (a lot of people reading this blog I'd imagine). I think it probably is 10.6 but it's worth bearing that in mind though.Īpple has stated that the focus will not primarily be new features but improving the quality of the OS. It could be a major point update for 10.5. Flip4Mac WMV Player from (Windows Media Player for the Mac is no longer supported, even by Microsoft) Perian from You should read this support page in case you need to delete older codecs. The interesting thing to note is that NOWHERE does it say that this is OS X 10.6. Mac OS X Snow Leopard announcedApple just released a few preliminary details about Mac OS X Snow Leopard (I think they're running out of cat names.).
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