You might already heard the talks of Apple’s new cat, the Snow Leopard. Steve did very briefly mentioned that Apple is working on a version of Mac OSX before they talk about the mobile device that Apple wont be selling in Malaysia anytime soon.

What is Snow Leopard? Based on a preview page Apple put up, it is nothing more then performance tweaks and security enhancements to the Leopard. Apple is not focusing any new features for this release of OSX.

Apple list 5 important point of interest in Snow Leopard: -

1. Microsoft Exchange Support: Mac OSX like Mail Address Book and iCal will receive out-of-the-box support for Microsoft Exchange 2007. No reason now for not switching to Macs in an enterprise environment.
2. Multicore: “Grand Central” a new set of technologies built into Mac OSX that allows developers to take full advantages of multicore processors.
3. 64bit: Extends the 64-bit technology in Mac OS X to support breakthrough amounts of RAM — up to a theoretical 16TB,
4. Media and internet: Introduces Quicktime X which will offer more efficient playback and better codec support. WebKit’s new JavaScript engine offers much better JS performance. Loads your Web2.0 ajax heavy site faster.
5. OpenCL: OpenCL (Open Compute Library), makes it possible for developers to efficiently tap the vast gigaflops of computing power currently locked up in the graphics processing unit (GPU).