JD-1027 writes in to kick off a causerie of OS X Snow Leopard. Apple's stated goal: "Taking a break from adding new features, Snow Leopard — routed to ship in about a year — builds on Leopard's enormous innovations by transportation a new generation of core os technologies that will streamline Mac OS X, enhance its performance, and set new correct for quality." The technologies: Grand Central to get better use of various processors and multicore chips, OpenCL to tap the power of the GPU, 64 bit so we can finally have our 16 TB of RAM, QuickTime X for optimized modern codec performance, and built in Exchange support in iCal, Address Book, and Apple Mail that most likely will help get Macs into collaborative environments. We've back when discussed ZFS in the server version of Snow Leopard."

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