#Circle preview mac os x full#
Essentially it will still be Leopard - even with a full cocoa touch, user interface layer and all the optimizations and security benefits. That's why Snow Leopard won't be called Lynx, Cougar, or my personal favorite Lion. That won't be an easy task and will take about 2 years to complete, of which they started this process sometime during last year probably. Things like copy and paste need to be properly thought through, and simply things like drag and drop and the full computer -> touch metaphors have to be properly created and tested from the ground up. They can't add a whole host of features to Leopard if they are going to be spending so much of their time and resources making the cocoa touch layer for the whole Leopard OS. We know it's there, when will it become mainstream? I'd like to see more info about resolution independence. I don't think MS has done anything similar. I'm very glad to see Apple seriously trying to take advantage of modern CPUs and GPUs, and provide tools to expose that power to developers. Apple has been VERY good about each OS version running even faster on older hardware. Too bad Microsoft doesn't understand this and instead designs OSes to consume all resources of machines five years in the future. See ya! Maybe schools or smaller companies hold on to old hardware, but my understanding of accounting and what-not is that the machines get depreciated and then OUTTA THERE! Sure, labs and other odd-ball long-term installations hang around, but end users get new machines.Īs others have said, under-the-covers optimizations, reorganizations, API clean ups, and other such things end users never see are a big deal and very worthy of a new OS release. They also tend to pass down older system when they get new ones and like to keep spare parts on hand.
They also tend to buy $600 to $1500 desktop systems and they don't $2200+ systems for evey user. They also like to reuse screens and not be tied to AIO systems. Also Enterprise like systems that are easy to open to swap parts out and they don't like haveing to ship the system out with HD to have it fixed.
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