Headlines - Apple lifts lid on 2009 iteration of Mac OS X

[HEXUS]

Apple has been showing off v10.6 of Mac OS X, titled Snow Leopard, and reveals plans to ship in a year's time.

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[directhex]

and i just bought 10.5 for the office. poot.

[awm]

Sounds like a good idea. I'm all in favor of putting in lots of effort to optimizing what is there to be fast, not adding zillions of extra features.

[lost eden]

Up to 16TiB of RAM? It'll take Apple a decade to release a machine capable of taking that much & judging by their current RAM pricing it'll cost £250,000!

[DR]

It is not going to be released for a while, and of course - no one will ever have 16TIB in an Apple system (well not in the near future) but I suspect when putting in the addressing the thought of 'hell, why not...' came to mind?

[TheAnimus]

I thought that most BSDs had little problem addressing upto the 64bit memory?

The question is normally a case of what to reserve for what. Hardly news is it?

As for multi-core optomisations, does this mean basically their not using linux threads? instead opting for BSD uThreads?

Whats interesting here is how apple are trying to get taken seriously as a business machine, making sure that they have better office integration.

But for the upgrade price, doubt its really going to be worth it for most people.

[lodore]

as for the 16tib ram support ye why not allow for the future. then they wont need to change that aspect for a very long time. for once software is ahead of hardware. just think 64bit processers have been out for ages but 32bit OS is still the norm which means max 4gb ram support.
even thou most motherboards can support up to 8gb atm.