Apple Asks Third Party Developers to Test OS X 10.6

      by Wyatt Walter

Apple has released a pre-release version of the new 10.6 version of OS X to a select few outside developers to test their applications’ stability on the new OS. Mac OS X Snow Leopard was promised after a year from last June’s WWDC so we should be seeing a release in the next six months or so. Apple has been fairly quiet about its new OS, unlike competitor Microsoft’s whose image took a beating with the release of Vista and is pushing the release of its Windows 7. Snow Leopard is a more or less a cleanup release after making a lot of changes when going to Leopard. One of the biggest new features, though, will be native support for Exchange 2007 syncing of mail, calendars, and contacts to the built-in Mail, iCal, and Address Book applications. Snow Leopard will also include support for OpenCL which allows developers to utilitze unused clock cycles in graphics processors as general purpose processors to boost CPU processing speeds on the OS. The change should help the OS be much more responsive as it can steal clock cycles from the GPU should the CPU be busy or waiting on I/O.

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One Response to “Apple Asks Third Party Developers to Test OS X 10.6”

  1. OS X 10.6 Release Rumored in August | What a n00b! Says:
    March 31st, 2009 at 6:54 pm

    [...] in February, Apple released a pre-release version of Snow Leopard and asked developers to begin testing of applications to ensure compatibility. Snow Leopard has been named by Apple as mostly a [...]

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