Apple News & Rumors: WWDC 09 - Round-Up

*HELLO* - This is the third Apple News & Rumors video, this is a general round-up of rumors with regards to all of Apples products.

WWDC 09 is tomorrow, June 8th !

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[Atheismrulez]

Also, my Mac mini is beginning to crap out on me. It has had several kernel panics in the last weeks and is freezing on a weekly basis. As I've figured out, it's a problem with the integrated Intel GMA950.

Macintosh computers are still overpriced for what you get, especially when you compare it to other manufacturers. Apple's Mac OS X Operating System is great, though, so I plan to dual-boot.

Windows 7 is much more stable and delivers a lot of new and useful features.

[DRBUK]

hi, well ye not everyone has good experiences with all products. im a 2 year mac user and ive had my imac cause a tonne of prbs. but i still buy and use macs, because im sorry, its better than windows in a lot of ways, again thats my opinion.lol.just my view. and with the new snow leopard, im sorry again, but the mac os is SO ADVANCED in terms of technologies, windows 7 doesnt come close, in terms of TECHNOLOGIES. and i very much doubt on THE WHOLE, windows 7 is more stable than snow leopard.

[iAnton3000]

Snow Leopard show be a very cheap or free upgrade, since Apple is promoting it as a "feature-free" OS X.

[DRBUK]

yes but its not TECHNOLOGY FREE, many new technologies are being introduced which cost money to develop, so its not really a case of feature free.

[Atheismrulez]

No, only the core apps. Even they said that at the keynote address. Didn't you listen? A normal app is not gonna be multi-threaded. A developer will have to make it take advantage of multiple threads, which consumes a lot more time. And in business, time: money.

[oOTheAlchemistOo]

Yea but in snow leopard ALL apps are multi-threaded.

[Atheismrulez]

Only when doing tasks that are multi-threaded and use multiple cores, but even then, it's only a small improvement because it's only got two processor cores, not four.

[oOTheAlchemistOo]

Yea, but grand central will benefit them.

[oOTheAlchemistOo]

I agree, I don't care about who switches to what. Just find it rather ironic, that's all.

[Atheismrulez]

Yeah, but when you factor in the fact that you can run OS X86 10.5.7 on a PC if you have the right specs (motherboard and video card), all the argument falls apart. I'm gonna build a gaming PC and all the hardware I'm gonna use is supported, so I'm not going to shell out money for a computer that's 2x less powerful.

The technologies in Snow Leopard will prove useless to most Mac users that have MacBooks and Mac minis, as they don't support OpenCL because the GPU is a crappy Intel GMA.