Speed: The Reason You’ll Upgrade to Snow Leopard

[via TG Daily]

Apple is poised to release it’s latest version of OS X, dubbed Snow Leopard. While it won’t have any new whiz-bang features, it will still be a major upgrade as it focus greatly on performance improvements.

Snow Leopard is a 64-bit operating system which in theory will support up to 16TB or RAM. The OS will also take advantage of two new technologies, Grand Central and Open CL who will make significant improvements in speed and performance.

This is not to say that the technologies will make apps that much faster out of the box. Significant speed improvements will be seen as developers optimize their codes for Snow Leopard.

While there will be no new features to be included in Snow Leopard, the significant performance improvement may be a compelling reason to upgrade. Especially for pro users who can’t get enough speed and performance.

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