Update to Mac OS X Snow Leopard – The best bang for your buck update Apple has released to date
Written by: hexley on Saturday January 09th 2010, 1:12 am
Filed under: Little Smokies, OS X 10.6
To explain how the past ten to fifteen years of computing history has happened would make for an interesting post. If there is one simple concept to take away, it is that in the past, computing power was not at a premium.
Software developers were extremely bound by the speed of the hardware that their applications were to be deployed on. In many cases, 100’s of man hours were put into optimizing the smallest of features, in order to fit a program into a space of memory that is a smaller than an inexpensive thumb drive.
Those days are over. There is significantly more CPU speed available to users than most will need. Casual web browsing, checking email, and other basic computing tasks take only a fraction of the CPU speed we have available to us. As an example, an iPhone has more CPU power than that of the first generation of iMac’s that began Apple’s return from the abyss of a negative balance sheet.
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