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Apple Releases Leopard 9A557/9A559 Seed Update

bdkennedy1 said:
They don't need to increment the build number because the update was released through Software Update.

I'm thinking 559 is the GM because it's really too late to seed another build and wait for feedback. If anything they will do one more build to change the build number and send it off for duplication without external testing.
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9a567 GM seed 10/4.Timer on Apple.com 10/5.Released 10/19
 
I am getting worried. Now it is actually October and there is no announcement for a release date yet. This likely means the earliest we would see it is the end of the month.
 
kavika411 said:
Anything to divert our attention from the iPhone trainwreck slowly building.
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Trainwreck?


More like Molehill.

On topic:

Glad to see another one on the first of this month. Seems the it will go GM this week. Can't wait to use Spaces all the time.
 
kenaustus said:
A good indication of how close they are is the fact that they have warned Boot Camp users that it will expire at the end of the month. If they weren't sure of how close they were there would be a Boot Camp update that gives everyone an extra 30 days before it expires.
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Say what? I don't get this statement at all. What warning? Expire? Huh?
 
EricBrian said:
Leopard in October? Don't count on it.
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FUD? Count on it.

The OS is in a shippable state now, it's far enough along that they can ship what they have and just have a software update on release day. There's absolutely no reason it would miss the date. For all we know, they already have declared GM and sent to the duplicator, and these are just testing out the stuff that will be in software update.
 
vertgo said:
All of the great OS level changes that were supposed to come with Leopard are conspicuously absent. No ZFS and no resolution independent UI means that the two most revolutionary features with the most implications for the future of the platform are gone. I was seriously excited about Leopard, but every day that we get closer to gold master means that these will not be in there.

The other things, Spaces, even time warp can be done as applications sitting on top of the OS (well time warp would require some kind of version control like svn but still, it's not nearly as great as having a display of incredible resolution that won't require that my old man eyes have to be 1 inch away from the screen).

Unless the surprise feature is an iPhone SDK, a crippled Leopard won't save apple from the whole bad decision iceberg that is smashing into their titanic.
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ZFS was never a publicly announced feature. So it's not fair that you're counting that against Apple.

Resolution independence was though! And some might say that I've read too much into what was said but I don't think I did...if Tiger had preliminary RI, why is it not finished in Leopard and why did/is Apple pushing developers so hard to get their apps RI-ready if it won't show up until 10.6?
 
I think that you are the first one who thinks that it would be anything else but the end of the month.

I put money on October 26, 2007.

chr1s60 said:
I am getting worried. Now it is actually October and there is no announcement for a release date yet. This likely means the earliest we would see it is the end of the month.
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I'm so glad they invented the Mac operating system and created ten versions of it over twenty years so they can release updates on it to distract customers from the trainwreck that they knew the iPhone would be twenty years ago.
 
*sighs* WHere is my Microsoft settlement check. http://www.microsoftminnesotasettlement.com/
I want to buy Leopard with it. I have a feeling the cash will spontaneous combust when I hand it to the casheer though. *hands the money to the casheer *POOF..See's Bill's face smiling in the smoke. WTF?!?

PS- I bitch about leopard in general because I think the updates are marginal. That doesn't mean I don't think it will be a solid update.
 
milo said:
FUD? Count on it.

The OS is in a shippable state now, it's far enough along that they can ship what they have and just have a software update on release day. There's absolutely no reason it would miss the date. For all we know, they already have declared GM and sent to the duplicator, and these are just testing out the stuff that will be in software update.
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Yeah, they did it with the new iLife suite, didn't they?
 
rented mule said:
ZFS was never a publicly announced feature. So it's not fair that you're counting that against Apple.

Resolution independence was though! And some might say that I've read too much into what was said but I don't think I did...if Tiger had preliminary RI, why is it not finished in Leopard and why did/is Apple pushing developers so hard to get their apps RI-ready if it won't show up until 10.6?
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At the last WWDC Apple informed developers they wanted them to be RI by January 2008.That has always been the case.Perhaps you personally didn't know this but developers have known it for a long time.
 
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