[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Doesn't particularly look like a must-have item like Leopard - if you have an iMac or a notebook, there's certainly no danger that you will need access to 16TB of RAM!

Sounds like it'll be awhile before OS X makes much of a splash again.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Is Steve Jobs letting Microsoft catch up on features, or is he sandbagging?

[Steely Tom]

Something's not right here. I calculate that 16 TB can be reached with 44 bits. A 64 bit address space spans approximately 18 million TB.

[CORedneck]

What I read on 10.6 (Snow Leopard) it is suppose to be for the Intel chips only. The G4 and G5 are left out in the “cold”.

[HAL9000]

Snow Leopard is a great strategy for Apple. It will improve OS X as an enterprise-class operating system and extend Apple’s lead over Microsoft in software technology.

I believe it will be a compelling upgrade for Intel-based Mac owners, especially MacBook owners who should see improved battery performance, thanks to the more efficient software.

Snow Leopard will also be great for independent developers, and will increase the availability of application software designed for Macs. Apple’s OS roadmap gives us assurance that our work today is a good investment in the future of the platform.

[Swordmaker]

OSX.6—Snow Leopard previewed at WWDC—PING!

Mac OSX.6 Snow Leopard Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[lesser_satan]

I really, really wish they would have called it Liger.

[jalisco555]

I know this is OT but did anyone else think that Steve Jobs didn’t look well yesterday? He looked thin to the point of appearing gaunt. I hope he’s all right.

[Uri’el-2012]

Mac OS® X Snow Leopard sounds like a mainframe Unix op/sys to me.

[js1138]

I’m just trying to figure out the economics of this. If I have an existing Mac and want to connect to an Exchange server, I will have to purchase a new OS? It isn’t a service pac or free upgrade?

[ReignOfError]

Doesn't particularly look like a must-have item like Leopard - if you have an iMac or a notebook, there's certainly no danger that you will need access to 16TB of RAM!

Make some of that RAM flash memory, and you're talking about all but eradicating the line between RAM and mass storage. That could be fairly revolutionary, though we're a non-trivial number of years away from it being practical, let alone mainstream.

We're a ways away from seeing how it plays out, but I can't blame Apple for taking one upgrade cycle to focus on tightening things up rather than release a raft of new features. It'd be nice if more companies took the time to do that every few revisions (I'm looking at you, Microsoft).

[Terpfen]

Sounds like it'll be awhile before OS X makes much of a splash again.

You base this on the announcement of back-end changes made in private? Come on. I remember hearing this stuff about 10.5 when it was announced, and then the final release somehow had a bunch of additions, changes, and features that everyone loved.