<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">A nice summary of Snow Leopard info from the Mac-Guild people.<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:mac-guild-request@lists.sonic.net">mac-guild-request@lists.sonic.net</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">September 3, 2009 2:00:07 PM CDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:mac-guild@lists.sonic.net">mac-guild@lists.sonic.net</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Mac-Guild Digest, Vol 5, Issue 3</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:mac-guild@lists.sonic.net">mac-guild@lists.sonic.net</a><br></span></div><br><div>Send Mac-Guild mailing list submissions to<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="mailto:mac-guild@lists.sonic.net">mac-guild@lists.sonic.net</a><br><br>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>http://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/mac-guild<br>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>mac-guild-request@lists.sonic.net<br><br>You can reach the person managing the list at<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>mac-guild-owner@lists.sonic.net<br><br>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br>than "Re: Contents of Mac-Guild digest..."<br><br><br>Today's Topics:<br><br> 1. Re: Ars Technica review of Snow Leopard (Bill Catambay)<br> 2. Re: Ars Technica review of Snow Leopard (Krewall, Melvin D)<br> 3. Re: Ars Technica review of Snow Leopard (Bill Catambay)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 22:29:31 -0700<br>From: Bill Catambay <editor@mac-guild.org><br>Subject: Re: [MG] Ars Technica review of Snow Leopard<br>To: Mac Guild Mailing List <mac-guild@lists.sonic.net><br>Message-ID: <p06240846c6c5045e5e1e@[64.142.30.27]><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed"<br><br>At 10:40 AM -0700 on 9/1/09, Bob R. Kenyon wrote:<br><br><br><blockquote type="cite">Long but thorough and good:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars<br></blockquote><br>Okay, I got painfully bored on page 3 and couldn't go on (it didn't <br>help to see that there were a total of 23 pages). Can someone brief <br>me on the highlights and/or tell me which pages might be of greatest <br>interest? I just don't have the time to wade through the 23 pages.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Bill<br>-- <br><br>Bill Catambay, Editor-in-Chief <br>The Macintosh Guild<br>mailto:editor@macguild.org <br>http://macguild.org/<br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 08:31:40 -0700<br>From: "Krewall, Melvin D" <melvin.d.krewall@lmco.com><br>Subject: Re: [MG] Ars Technica review of Snow Leopard<br>To: Mac Guild Mailing List <mac-guild@lists.sonic.net><br>Message-ID: <p0624084ec6c591cc83c2@[64.142.30.27]><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed"<br><br>I read it all. Some of it is very technical, but fascinating. Apple has<br>some very smart people working to improve the OS. The following is a<br>brief description of each page of the article.<br><br>http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars<br><br>Page 1 - Intro<br>Page 2 - Price/options<br>Page 3 - Installation details - how does it save all that space?<br>Page 4 - New Look is interesting to me<br>Page 5 - Discussion of 64 bit-ness - don't read if you don't care about<br>technical details<br>Page 6 - Analysis of the new QuickTime X architecture<br>Page 7 - File system details - very technical<br>Page 8 - 13 Technical discussion of compilers, computer language and<br>multi-processing in Snow Leopard, culminating with a fascinating look at<br>Grand Central Dispatch which makes it easier for developers to write<br>programs that take advantage of multiple CPU cores. Don't read if you're<br>not interested in software internals.<br>Pages 14 & 15 Discussion of OpenCL, the graphics processor language that<br>lets regular programs use the graphics card to do dedicated tasks.<br>Again, very technical.<br>Page 16 - Explanation of the QuickTime 7 optional install and QuickTime<br>Player capabilities - good read<br>Page 17 - The Dock. Worth reading.<br>Page 18 - The Finder. Good stuff.<br>Page 19 - Apple's implementation of Microsoft Exchange.<br>Page 20 - Discussion of Snow Leopard's improved performance.<br>Page 21 - Grab Bag - Highlights of the few miscellaneous features,<br>including Scanner support in Image Capture.<br>Page 22 - Sleep, Haxies, and ZFS file system.<br>Page 23 - Summary.<br><br>Hope this helps someone.<br><br>Mel Krewall<br>LM Aero<br>ADP F-35 Improvements and Derivatives<br>817-777-8823<br><br><br><blockquote type="cite"> -----Original Message-----<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> Can someone brief me on the highlights and/or tell me which pages<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> might be of greatest interest?<br></blockquote><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 3<br>Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 11:30:48 -0700<br>From: Bill Catambay <editor@mac-guild.org><br>Subject: Re: [MG] Ars Technica review of Snow Leopard<br>To: Mac Guild Mailing List <mac-guild@lists.sonic.net><br>Message-ID: <p06240801c6c5bbc95b34@[64.142.30.27]><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed"<br><br>This is perfect! Thanks Mel!<br><br>Bill<br><br>At 8:31 AM -0700 on 9/3/09, Krewall, Melvin D wrote:<br><br><br><blockquote type="cite">Page 1 - Intro<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Page 2 - Price/options<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Page 3 - Installation details - how does it save all that space?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Page 4 - New Look is interesting to me<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Page 5 - Discussion of 64 bit-ness - don't read if you don't care about<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">technical details<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Page 6 - Analysis of the new QuickTime X architecture<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Page 7 - File system details - very technical<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Page 8 - 13 Technical discussion of compilers, computer language and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">multi-processing in Snow Leopard, culminating with a fascinating look at<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Grand Central Dispatch which makes it easier for developers to write<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">programs that take advantage of multiple CPU cores. Don't read if you're<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">not interested in software internals.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Pages 14 & 15 Discussion of OpenCL, the graphics processor language that<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">lets regular programs use the graphics card to do dedicated tasks.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Again, very technical.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Page 16 - Explanation of the QuickTime 7 optional install and QuickTime<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Player capabilities - good read<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Page 17 - The Dock. Worth reading.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Page 18 - The Finder. Good stuff.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Page 19 - Apple's implementation of Microsoft Exchange.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Page 20 - Discussion of Snow Leopard's improved performance.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Page 21 - Grab Bag - Highlights of the few miscellaneous features,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">including Scanner support in Image Capture.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Page 22 - Sleep, Haxies, and ZFS file system.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Page 23 - Summary.<br></blockquote><br><br>-- <br><br>Bill Catambay, Editor-in-Chief <br>The Macintosh Guild<br>mailto:editor@macguild.org <br>http://macguild.org/<br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Mac-Guild mailing list<br>http://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/mac-guild<br><br><br>End of Mac-Guild Digest, Vol 5, Issue 3<br>***************************************<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>