[DM-MUG] Fwd: Mac-Guild Digest, Vol 5, Issue 3

Thu Sep 3 14:07:27 CDT 2009

A nice summary of Snow Leopard info from the Mac-Guild people.

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>   1. Re:  Ars Technica review of Snow Leopard (Bill Catambay)
>   2. Re:  Ars Technica review of Snow Leopard (Krewall, Melvin D)
>   3. Re:  Ars Technica review of Snow Leopard (Bill Catambay)
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> Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 22:29:31 -0700
> From: Bill Catambay <editor at mac-guild.org>
> Subject: Re: [MG] Ars Technica review of Snow Leopard
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> At 10:40 AM -0700 on 9/1/09, Bob R. Kenyon wrote:
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>
>> Long but thorough and good:
>>
>> http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars
>
> Okay, I got painfully bored on page 3 and couldn't go on (it didn't
> help to see that there were a total of 23 pages).  Can someone brief
> me on the highlights and/or tell me which pages might be of greatest
> interest?  I just don't have the time to wade through the 23 pages.
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
> --  
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> Bill Catambay, Editor-in-Chief
> The Macintosh Guild
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> Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 08:31:40 -0700
> From: "Krewall, Melvin D" <melvin.d.krewall at lmco.com>
> Subject: Re: [MG] Ars Technica review of Snow Leopard
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> I read it all. Some of it is very technical, but fascinating. Apple  
> has
> some very smart people working to improve the OS. The following is a
> brief description of each page of the article.
>
> http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars
>
> Page 1 - Intro
> Page 2 - Price/options
> Page 3 - Installation details - how does it save all that space?
> Page 4 - New Look is interesting to me
> Page 5 - Discussion of 64 bit-ness - don't read if you don't care  
> about
> technical details
> Page 6 - Analysis of the new QuickTime X architecture
> Page 7 - File system details - very technical
> Page 8 - 13 Technical discussion of compilers, computer language and
> multi-processing in Snow Leopard, culminating with a fascinating  
> look at
> Grand Central Dispatch which makes it easier for developers to write
> programs that take advantage of multiple CPU cores. Don't read if  
> you're
> not interested in software internals.
> Pages 14 & 15 Discussion of OpenCL, the graphics processor language  
> that
> lets regular programs use the graphics card to do dedicated tasks.
> Again, very technical.
> Page 16 - Explanation of the QuickTime 7 optional install and  
> QuickTime
> Player capabilities - good read
> Page 17 - The Dock. Worth reading.
> Page 18 - The Finder. Good stuff.
> Page 19 - Apple's implementation of Microsoft Exchange.
> Page 20 - Discussion of Snow Leopard's improved performance.
> Page 21 - Grab Bag - Highlights of the few miscellaneous features,
> including Scanner support in Image Capture.
> Page 22 - Sleep, Haxies, and ZFS file system.
> Page 23 - Summary.
>
> Hope this helps someone.
>
> Mel Krewall
> LM Aero
> ADP F-35 Improvements and Derivatives
> 817-777-8823
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>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>
>> Can someone brief me on the highlights and/or tell me which pages
>> might be of greatest interest?
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 11:30:48 -0700
> From: Bill Catambay <editor at mac-guild.org>
> Subject: Re: [MG] Ars Technica review of Snow Leopard
> To: Mac Guild Mailing List <mac-guild at lists.sonic.net>
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> This is perfect!  Thanks Mel!
>
> Bill
>
> At 8:31 AM -0700 on 9/3/09, Krewall, Melvin D wrote:
>
>
>> Page 1 - Intro
>> Page 2 - Price/options
>> Page 3 - Installation details - how does it save all that space?
>> Page 4 - New Look is interesting to me
>> Page 5 - Discussion of 64 bit-ness - don't read if you don't care  
>> about
>> technical details
>> Page 6 - Analysis of the new QuickTime X architecture
>> Page 7 - File system details - very technical
>> Page 8 - 13 Technical discussion of compilers, computer language and
>> multi-processing in Snow Leopard, culminating with a fascinating  
>> look at
>> Grand Central Dispatch which makes it easier for developers to write
>> programs that take advantage of multiple CPU cores. Don't read if  
>> you're
>> not interested in software internals.
>> Pages 14 & 15 Discussion of OpenCL, the graphics processor language  
>> that
>> lets regular programs use the graphics card to do dedicated tasks.
>> Again, very technical.
>> Page 16 - Explanation of the QuickTime 7 optional install and  
>> QuickTime
>> Player capabilities - good read
>> Page 17 - The Dock. Worth reading.
>> Page 18 - The Finder. Good stuff.
>> Page 19 - Apple's implementation of Microsoft Exchange.
>> Page 20 - Discussion of Snow Leopard's improved performance.
>> Page 21 - Grab Bag - Highlights of the few miscellaneous features,
>> including Scanner support in Image Capture.
>> Page 22 - Sleep, Haxies, and ZFS file system.
>> Page 23 - Summary.
>
>
> -- 
>
> Bill Catambay, Editor-in-Chief
> The Macintosh Guild
> mailto:editor at macguild.org
> http://macguild.org/
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