major advances to the open standards UNIX-based foundation including an updated state-of-the-art kernel with improved SMP scalability, 64-bit virtual memory, modernised network services and Xgrid, Apple’s easy-to-use distributed computing software.

Automator, an innovative easy-to-use application that automates simple, complex, or repetitive tasks without requiring the user to write scripts.

Mac subscribers can synchronise their contacts, bookmarks, email preferences and calendar across multiple machines Mac Sync using a completely new Sync engine in Tiger ensures that.

Tiger can natively run 64-bit processes for database, engineering and scientific applications to take advantage of the increased performance unleashed when accessing massive amounts of memory while still running side-by-side with existing 32-bit applications.

QuickTime support for the next-generation MPEG-4 video codec H.264 delivers incredible scalability across the entire bandwidth spectrum, from 3G mobile media to High Definition broadcast and beyond.

Core Image and Core Video provide the foundation for new image and video processing applications, building on the success of Core Audio which is leading the next generation of innovative audio application development.

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