Snow Leopard = Tablet Edition?
Tue, September 1st 2009 at 10:23am
So far I have been very happy with Snow Leopard, everything on my system is much snappier and seems to work better, but I will be posting some more about that later. Right now I just had a though about why Apple is releasing this now, and it seems that this would be the perfect Tablet OS.
Everything they did in Snow Leopard seems help both the desktop but mostly the tablet. For example:
- Smaller Footprint: A new Tablet will most likely sport an SSD so the few extra gigabytes we scoffed at on the desktop become more relevant on a tablet.
- Faster: Faster code means they streamlined and made their code run more efficiently. This means much better performance for us on laptops and desktops, but would also mean that the full OS will run better on smaller devices. A tablet will most likely have a lower powered embedded CPU, like a Atom. So efficiency would be important.
- Software Support: A tablet would probably not like running emulation software like Rosetta. So this clean break mentality of Snow Leopard will help force developers to update their applications to the latest Snow Leopard API’s, and get rid of as much legacy apps and drivers as possible. Then when the tablet launches it will have as much software support as possible
These are just thoughts about where this could be leading. Even it a tablet is not coming I think optimizing code is a great thing, especially when the results are so noticeable. Personally I am not even all that excited about a tablet unless it costs around $300, which I am pretty sure it will not. My Macbook Pro and PC serve me well.
Tags: Apple, Snow Leopard, Tablet
