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The notices on L9 tout better CPU handing as one of it's advantages. But Snow Leopard has Grand Central Station which is supposed to do that too. So my question is this: Is Snow Leopard making a difference in the way the processing is allocated in 8.02?

The way I see this is that 10.6 lays the groundwork for the Mac OS going forward. It will take a while for application developers (including those at Apple) to rework their software to take advantage of new opportunities introduced in the OS. It seems reasonable to me that it might take a few months, but the future looks quite bright. A couple of developers that I speak with point out that the feature set of S-L, and the detailed implementations, wasn't set until just a few months ago, so it will take time. Programmers can't be expected to finalize their designs until they have firm specs. on which to base their work.

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