Jun 10 2008
Apple runs out of cool Great Cats to use as Mac OS X codenames, demos Snow Leopard
Apple today previewed Mac OS X Snow Leopard, which builds on the success and name of OS X Leopard. According to Apple, this release focuses less on new features, and more on performance. Snow Leopard is optimized for multi-core processors, taps into the computing power of graphic processing units, enables breakthrough amounts of RAM and features a new, modern media platform with QuickTime X. Snow Leopard includes out-of-the-box support for Microsoft Exchange 2007 and is scheduled to ship in about a year.
Why did they choose such a goofy codename for Mac OS X 10.6? Well, for those of you keeping score, Apple has used the following Great Cats as code names for the various versions of Mac OS X:
Cheetah = Mac OS X 10.0- Puma = Mac OS X 10.1
- Jaguar = Mac OS X 10.2
- Panther = Mac OS X 10.3
- Tiger = Mac OS X 10.4
- Leopard = Mac OS X 10.5
Following that Wikipedia link I provided above, you’ll see that, apart from the admittedly uninspiring “Lion,” Apple has only the Snow Leopard, and a couple varieties of Clouded Leopards to choose from for the next few OS codenames.
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