Apple Mac: Snow Leopard

 Macintosh have once again beaten Windows to the chase with their 'finely tuned' operating system. Name Snow Leopard. Mac have promised many things in this upgrade of their previous operating system, Leopard. They have promised and once again delivered to the maximum amount possible.
Something to notice about this OS is that it is not a completely new OS, just a tuned up version of Leopard.
The most amazing thing about the new OS is that it is 7 gigs smaller than the previous version.

Apple have introduced something that is very fascinating to me, it is called 'Open Cl'. What this particular feature does is allows the user to use the graphics processing core as a secondary core. It does not give a clear description of how it will achieve this feat but it seems to now be possible.
Apple as usual are creating Operating Systems that are way before their time, and Apple claim that Snow Leopard is able to handle 16 terabytes of ram. They say that they programmed it to handle so much, just because they can. 
Another new innovation to accompany Snow Leopard is something called Grand Central Dispatch. Which allows programs to easily take advantage of the multiple cores in processors, boosting the speed of heavy duty applications such as video editing software.
They have also encoded the whole OS to run on 64 bit processors. This is a big step forward as it decrease the time taken for most tasks by almost 2 percent. This should also allow word programs and normal browsing to be slightly faster.
If you are a fan of backing up your computer, Apple claim that it is now 80% faster to back up your system which is a significant decrease.
A new version of Quicktime has also been released alongside the OS. Quicktime 10 will allow the user to crop videos in the program, which means that you don't always have to fire up iMovie to just crop a video quickly. Also there will be no need to buy Quicktime pro as all the advantages of Quicktime pro will be in Quicktime 10.
Start up is now 2 times faster and Shutdown is 1.8 times faster. This is a nice little bonus.
Apple have once again out performed their rivals. Unfortunately they have not released a 'pc' compatible version as yet. If they did I would most definitely go and buy their software right now. The only reason that Apple Mac control such a little piece of the market is because their computers are so expensive and there is limited software available for the OS.  Hopefully in future I will be able to enjoy Mac on my PC alongside with Windows.
Now all we need to do is wait and see how Windows 7 has to add to the table. Looking forward to it.