Neil McAllister over at Developer World posted an interesting article regarding Apple’s forthcoming Grand Central technology. It is a great article (a little dense if you are not a hardcore techie), but I wonder if his conclusions are necessarily right.

To preface this article, yes it has been several months since Apple gave us the thumbs-down on FireWire by axing it from the latest round of MacBook updates (it survives on the MacBook Pro, but only in the less popular Firewire 800 form). Much has been said, though little has been done—although there is an online petition to bring FireWire back to the MacBook. But a conversation with a client and an Apple Genius at my local Apple store recently brought the issue back for a while, and it is worth sharing.

Although very few details about Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard have been released, Roughly Drafted has supposedly uncovered some more tidbits and features. As many of you may already know, one of the main features of the latest big cat is Grand Central. Grand Central is a thread management tool used to help developers more »

Mac OS X v10.6 is the first of the big cats to be named for a different breed of a previous version. After all, we didn’t rush out to buy Siberian Tiger this past October. As the naming convention implies, there’s not a lot of difference between Leopard and Snow Leopard, at least as far as the end user in concerned. Apple’s info page is sparse, but at least gives us some insight on what to expect.

Learn more after the break.