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Apple Nearing Completion of Snow Leopard?
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I'm thinking that they'll announce new MacBooks and MBPs shipping in a month; Snow Leopard preinstalled.
Source? Sounds like nothing but more of the same speculation we've had for months. Thanks, but I can make wild guesses just as well as anyone else, I was asking if there was anything concrete that I had missed.
And shortly after that was leaked, it was revealed that all those smaller apps did have the PPC code (which omitting saves very little space) and instead left out all the foreign language translations (which saves exactly the amount of space that was saved). Thanks for playing.
As long as it works...
I don't really care how they name it. As long as it works well for me. And also, I don't really care about how it looks, it already looks better than Windows. All I care is performance and quality.
I don't really care how they name it. As long as it works well for me. And also, I don't really care about how it looks, it already looks better than Windows. All I care is performance and quality.
I still think they'll hold it until after Windows 7 is released.
Past Mac OS X release dates:
Public Beta, September 13, 2000
10.0 Cheetah, March 24, 2001
10.1 Puma, September 25, 2001
10.2 Jaguar, August 23, 2002
10.3 Panther, October 24, 2003
10.4 Tiger, April 29, 2005
10.5 Leopard, October 26, 2007
According to Paul Thurrott, Microsoft pushed back the release date of Windows 7 a week from the 15th to the 22nd of October.
Do they know something? Who knows, but it's a sure bet they won't release their new operating system within the same week due to media coverage.
If I was Apple I would release it in late August to get the Back to School crowd or early November to have the "newest" operating system.
Past Mac OS X release dates:
Public Beta, September 13, 2000
10.0 Cheetah, March 24, 2001
10.1 Puma, September 25, 2001
10.2 Jaguar, August 23, 2002
10.3 Panther, October 24, 2003
10.4 Tiger, April 29, 2005
10.5 Leopard, October 26, 2007
According to Paul Thurrott, Microsoft pushed back the release date of Windows 7 a week from the 15th to the 22nd of October.
Do they know something? Who knows, but it's a sure bet they won't release their new operating system within the same week due to media coverage.
If I was Apple I would release it in late August to get the Back to School crowd or early November to have the "newest" operating system.
PPC support. Just don't forget it.
No. Mac stuff please. I couldn't care less about the iPhone.
No. Mac stuff please. I couldn't care less about the iPhone.
Part of the reason I use a Mac is because of how slick and nice the interface is. I work long hours and then when I am home I also work long hours on side projects. Spending the amount of time I do in front of a machine, I want the interface to look good.
I couldn't get excited about work using a Windows box. Its so dreadful and reduces my productivity greatly.
I use Coda, not because it is the best editor for PHP ... but because its the best interface for my needs and does almost everything I need.
UI is a very very big deal to for me. I can not use a very ugly interface. I have stopped using products before because of interface.
Both of these cars http://lkp.cc/4BB5j http://lkp.cc/4BC03 serve the same purpose, they get you front point A to point B. Now you see where I am going with this ?
Apple takes interface very seriously. I hope you were joking saying they don't. Although Leopard does have a lot that doesn't totally match from application to application, most of the interfaces are very well thought out. Very smooth and very easy on the eyes.
Apple doesn't support themes because they don't enjoy someone coming along and taking a **** on their interface. There was a few really nice interfaces for jail broken iPhones, but 95% of those interfaces were total crap and made the phone look down right awful.
Apple wants you to be able to walk over to any Mac and feel comfortable using it. Go check out 10 peoples PCs. Sure, they can customize the crap out of it ... using downright awful fonts and icons that make no sense. For example, the people who will replace all system icons with icons from their favorite TV show. Apple wouldn't want someone to see that and go, oh crap what the hell is this ?!
I don't know how to say this gently, but Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, and Leopard all have more than one syllable.
Silly Brit. Jag-uar is two syllables
Indeed. When are those people over there going to learn to speak proper English?
It's really cool to see all these dates in easy order. Why isn't the OS in the buyers guide? Maybe I am just a weirdo, but I love seeing the progression of things.
Indeed. When are those people over there going to learn to speak proper English?
Don't get me started on you lot
I have enough of an issue with American companies (Apple!!) giving language options as:English
International English
Err... you're the non-national ones
Agreed. I hope it's 64 bit only, too.
I am so sick and tired of having to explain to my customers about the difference between 64 bit and 32 bit cpus and operating systems. At least I don't have to explain to my Apple customers the 93 different versions of that steaming pile of Vista.
Don't get me started on you lot
English
International English
Err... you're the non-national ones
LMAO
......you said us lot. Awesome.
If Snow Leopard comes out soon then I'm really going to wait until 10.6.2 for a relatively bug-free version.
No, but I expect we'll find out for sure next week.
No, but I expect we'll find out for sure next week.
Yeah, that just says the dev preview is intel only, nothing about final release.
Looks like still no definitive word on it - intel only is the likely guess, but still nothing more than a guess.
i would suggest september when intel release new 32nm mobile CPUs, new OS X and new multi core processors to take it.
and september beats 7 available date and gives enough fine tuning based on input from developers...
and september beats 7 available date and gives enough fine tuning based on input from developers...
With MicroSoft's track record, I'll give Win7 a try after SP1 or SP2.
I'm ready for Snow Leopard now.
If the promises are true, my machine will be faster just from upgrading the OS. And there are several programs I'm interested in that requires Leopard. (Still using Tiger here.)
Generally speaking you have to wait until the 2nd update for any given operating system before most bugs are ironed out. That means OS X 10.x.2 or Windows SP2. Seems to be the magic update that most major OS upgrades require before things are smooth sailing. Anyone getting in on a .0 or .1 version of any major OS X update needs to be ready for a little unpredictability.
Ha!!
Over here Leopard = Le-oh-pard
In the U.S. South, it's "lay-uh-perd."
And I'm only slightly exaggerating.
This might mean "Marble" is delayed until 10.7? I wonder if Resolution Independence will make its way to Snow Leopard or if it too will first come in 10.7.