With the revelation earlier this week that Mac OS X 10.6 ‘Snow Leopard’ may be coming in Q1 2009, Apple resellers have hope that the parallel processing elements of the upcoming OS will boost Mac business adoption.
Apple earlier this year said that Snow Leopard won’t include a raft of new features, but instead, will represent an architectural shift in OS X that’s focused on multicore processor support and making it easier for developers to write apps that take advantage of parallel processing.
All of which means that Mac business adoption, which according to Forrester Research stood at 4.2 percent at the end of 2007, could see significant gains once Snow Leopard arrives.
“Parallel processing will be difficult for Apple to sell, but if they do it right, users will have much snappier performance across the board, in terms of moving around files, manipulating files, system utilities and launching applications,” said Michael Oh, president of Boston-based Apple reseller Tech Superpowers.
