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Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard 'Finalized'?

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AppleInsider thinks so

A source tells AppleInsider that Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is now "finalized" and that Apple has begun to provide Leopard-related support training materials to its support staff.

Among these initial training materials were self-paced training modules on some of the operating system's most popular features and components, such as installation methods, Mail and BootCamp.

The last full pre-release of Leopard arrived on September 21st, when Apple provided its vast developer community with Mac OS X Leopard build 9A559 in what was then assumed to be a release candidate.

A week later the company released a small automatic software update for build 9A559 but did not increase or otherwise change the Leopard build number as it had done in previous cases. Therefore, build 9A559 was the last known candidate to be declared Gold Master and released to manufacturing.

All signs have pointed to a public release of Leopard during the business week of Oct 22nd, with sources specifically singling out Oct 26 for the official launch.
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Mac OS X 10.4.11

Meanwhile, AppleInsider has also heard that Apple on Tuesday pumped out two new builds of Mac OS X 10.4.11 -- widely expected to be the final update to the Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger operating system.

The new builds -- 8S161 (for PowerPC Macs) and 8S2161 (for Intel Macs) -- focus primarily on Dashboard, according to some of the people testing the releases. This reportedly includes a fix the the software's underlying Webkit foundation and word of two existing issues with number-oriented widgets.

Mac OS X 10.4.11 is now set to deliver over four dozen minor bug fixes and code corrections to users of Mac OS X Tiger.
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https://www.macrumors.com/2007/10/09/mac-os-x-10-5-leopard-finalized/
its getting harder and harder for apple to keep secret. Just waiting for the official release, any day now.
 
Nothing new. Appleinsider just wrapped up old rumors and told us what we already know.
 
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard 'Finalized'?



According to a source of AppleInsider, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is "finalized" and support staff have been provided Leopard-related training materials.

The last publicly available Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard seed (9A559) was released to developers on September 21st, 2007. There is no word whether or not this seed represents the "Gold Master".

Apple has previously announced that Leopard will be shipping in October, but no official release date has yet been set. Circulating rumors have pegged October 26th as the likely date for the launch.

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Nice.

I think I will wait a couple weeks though personally before installing.

Or a couple of minutes if photoshop cs 3 is fine with it.


swingerofbirch said:
Do they normally announce the final version is available the days it ships, or will they have another keynote showing off the final version?
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they will prob. announce store events on day X later this month.
 
Sweet. Still haven't decided if I will buy it on release day, if I don't I will wait until 10.5.1.
 
26th of October ay?

Well at least it wasn't the 30th or something ahahah....aw man can't wait! :apple:
 
Bring on the new cat. I'm tired of hearing about it. Its oct. 9th. We need a date!!:D
 
running 9a559 here. I hope there is another version that's gold. Most everything runs fine but I have a couple programs that just crash.
 
Oh, how I want 10.5. My life at work will be so much easier. I will basically be getting rid of any need for Win XP.

A Finalized Golden Master will be great. The next few weeks will be full of sleepless nights.:D
 
i agree that we will have an announce this week (tomorrow) with pre-ordering. Hopefully they will also announce the new macbooks also with pre-ordering.
 
Any idea on what the EDU pricing will be? It seems like they have raised their software prices (iWork and iLife now cost $71 not $49) - do you think this will continue with 10.5?
 
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