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[Phoronix] Mac OS X 10.6 Brings Serious Performance Gains
[Phoronix] Mac OS X 10.6 Brings Serious Performance Gains
While our focus at Phoronix is on testing hardware under Linux, we remain friendly and interested in other BSD and UNIX operating systems too, including Mac OS X. With the launch of Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" we have been particularly interested in it considering the technological advancements ...
[Phoronix] GCC vs. LLVM-GCC Benchmarks
phoronix.com — Last Friday we published Mac OS X 10.6 benchmarks and then on Monday they were joined by... Ubuntu 9.10 vs. Mac OS X 10.6 benchmarks . One of the requests that has come up since publishing those articles are to carry out a set of tests comparing the ... (more) [Phoronix] GCC vs. LLVM-GCC Benchmarks
Review: Apple OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Review: Apple OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
techradar.com — Apple's happily admitted from day one that Snow Leopard was to be a better Leopard, building on... the foundations of Mac OS X 10.5. The thinking was to make things better, faster, easier - an upgrade about refinement rather than revolution. This ... (more) Review: Apple OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Snow Leopard to Launch Aug. 28th
technologyexpert.blogspot.com — Speculation about when Apple's next iteration of Mac OS X will launch is now over, as on... Monday Apple announced that Snow Leopard, or Mac OS X 10.6 will launch on Friday, August 28th. This ought to please Apple shareholders and Apple's bank account, at least if Piper Jaffray is correct. In a ... (more) Snow Leopard to Launch Aug. 28th
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Mac OS X 10.6 Brings Serious Performance Gains
DV Hardware — ... showdown by comparing the performance of the retail build of Mac OS X 10.6.0 to the earlier Mac OS X 10.5.8 through a number of different quantitative tests. We firmly believe that as of right now these are the most detailed desktop performance numbers available concerning Snow Leopard, but we already have more figures on the way. We have performance numbers from not just one Mac computer, but two different setups. Here's to the first 60+ tests we ran! Read more at Phoronix. Mac OS X 10.6 Brings Serious Performance Gains - More news ...

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