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Entry 803, on 2008-06-26 at 20:06:15 (Rating 1, Computers)

When people ask me what I found out about the future of Mac OS X from the recent WWDC conference I think about it for a while then have to admit that, to the average user, there won't be much change in the next version of the system. Many people would see this as disappointing but to many support people its great news. One of the big complaints from computer technical staff is that the OS is continually gaining new abilities but these aren't efficiently implemented and are often not well documented.

This is particularly apparent in Mac OS X Server. I continually encounter weird problems with server and there is a lack of good documentation to explain how to set things up properly and overcome technical issues. Just yesterday I encountered a weird bug which seemed to be undocumented and which I fixed more through luck than good technical skills!

So when Apple say that the next version of Mac OS X will concentrate on consolidation we should all be happy. Better memory management, more efficient use of the CPU, the ability to use the GPU for general processing, better disk management, and generally better reliability should be welcomed by everyone. Having better documentation, especially for server, would also be a huge step forward.

If the basics are handled better then new functionality will naturally arise as a result, maybe it will be from third party developers instead of Apple, but it will happen. For example, Photoshop could benefit greatly from more efficient memory management and access to the GPU for complex graphics operations.

So I'm hoping that when Snow Leopard does arrive we will not see much change from Leopard (at least on the surface). Maybe that's why Apple chose such similar names!

Comment 1 (4522) by Anonymous on 2016-07-22 at 14:35:12:

Did it work out as you expected?

Comment 2 (4523) by OJB on 2016-07-22 at 18:55:38:

Well yes, it did. Even though the final version of Snow Leopard (10.6.8) is no longer supported it is still considered one of the most efficient, reliable versions of Mac OS X, OS X, macOS ever.

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