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Jobs: Leopard Will Anchor Product Schedule For A Decade
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They never really disclosed that in past changes. Basically, beginning with store purchases on 10/26 or orders placed on that day, you'll get Leopard. If your order online is CTO, you will probably get it pre-installed, even if you order it on 10/26. Otherwise, it'll be a few days while stock is depleted.
Very pleased with this announcement. As long as the quality of the updates remains at the current high standard I'm more than happy. A new version of OS X every 18 months? Nice. 
who said that they were stopping development? he only said that leopard gives them a good ground for schedule pacing and development.
WWDC 08 is the earliest I believe we will see 10.6.
Let's all just enjoy Leopard for now.
It's good to know they are staying constant with the upgrades and the sales are surging.
Just an observation, but 2010 isn't all that far away. It is only 26 months away. Tiger was released April 29th, 2005 and Leopard will be released October 26th 2007. If my math is correct, then that is 30 months between OS upgrades. Which in my opinion isn't that bad.
I know no one is forcing me to upgrade my OS every-time a new one is released, but it is tempting. And I don't want to upgrade every year, it gets expensive.
If Apple did release a new OS in January of 2010 then it would be less time then what we waited from Tiger to Leopard.
Just a thought.
I know no one is forcing me to upgrade my OS every-time a new one is released, but it is tempting. And I don't want to upgrade every year, it gets expensive.
If Apple did release a new OS in January of 2010 then it would be less time then what we waited from Tiger to Leopard.
Just a thought.
I'd like to keep my G5 another 2 years at the minimum. 4 year useful life isn't too bad in the computer world.
Sadly, I'm thinking Virtual PC 7 won't be compatible with Leopard. While I can use my girlfriends Macbook/Parallels in the mean time, I might end up buying a new iMac.
We'll find out Friday. ::fingers crossed::
We all must consider the Intel Transition occurred in between 2005-2006.
They had to make a version of Tiger for Intel Machines (Yes they already did but they needed to make it stable and ready for the public).
Sounds good to me, as long as this doesn't mean we'll be waiting a decade for 10.6. 12-18 months sounds good
No, he said 'anchor', which means like OS9, people will be using it on their systems for upwards for a decade, and refuse to switch to the newer versions
click on the "article link", the NYTime link is on that page.
here, here; I hope they get the little things, that are a real PITA done sooner rather than later.
I'll take bets it takes longer, say 2012.
Not really in competition with Linux, so 2012 for 10.6
It will be fixed soon enough I predict
Uh.. what? That was the pace back in 2002-2005. The Tiger-Leopard transition took 30 months. What is he talking about?
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18 Months sounds OK, I guess. I don't really care. Every 12 months or so is kinda too frequent b/c then we'd have to pay $129 every time. Plus, the extra 6 or however many months would let Apple create more & better features, plus better stability.
I'm not totally sure if/what Apple's going to drop in 10.6. In 10.3, they needed USB ports (bye bye beige G3s!), in 10.4, they needed firewire ports (bye bye first iMacs!) and now, 10.5 needs an 867 MHz or faster G4 (bye bye all G3 iMacs, iBook G3s & Power Mac G3s and some G4s). I know in other threads there's been a debate on whether or not to drop PowerPC support, but good chance all G4s will be. On the one hand, G5s are more powerful than the first Intel Macs. However, if we keep G5s, but drop G4s, there aren't any G5 laptops in consumer's hands and laptops are a big chunk of the Mac population (or Apple pie ). It would suck for some people in either case. Either laptop users will be mad or G5 users will be mad. On yet a different hand, it might be easiest for Apple to drop all PowerPC support after 10.5 and focus only on Intel (and whatever the iPods/iPhone run). This would be a lot easier to maintain & program since there aren't so many different architectures. Plus, everyone who has a PowerPC Mac that wants to run 10.6 would have to buy a new Mac, meaning more sales for Apple. On the downside, the consumers will probably hate having to upgrade.
I'm not totally sure if/what Apple's going to drop in 10.6. In 10.3, they needed USB ports (bye bye beige G3s!), in 10.4, they needed firewire ports (bye bye first iMacs!) and now, 10.5 needs an 867 MHz or faster G4 (bye bye all G3 iMacs, iBook G3s & Power Mac G3s and some G4s). I know in other threads there's been a debate on whether or not to drop PowerPC support, but good chance all G4s will be. On the one hand, G5s are more powerful than the first Intel Macs. However, if we keep G5s, but drop G4s, there aren't any G5 laptops in consumer's hands and laptops are a big chunk of the Mac population (or Apple pie
). It would suck for some people in either case. Either laptop users will be mad or G5 users will be mad. On yet a different hand, it might be easiest for Apple to drop all PowerPC support after 10.5 and focus only on Intel (and whatever the iPods/iPhone run). This would be a lot easier to maintain & program since there aren't so many different architectures. Plus, everyone who has a PowerPC Mac that wants to run 10.6 would have to buy a new Mac, meaning more sales for Apple. On the downside, the consumers will probably hate having to upgrade.Those "secret features"...
I find that phrase quite interesting, and wonder if it means that those "top secret features" that Jobs alluded to are actually going to arrive in Leopard this week after all.
We just might not be able to see them yet.
As far as I understand it, there are only three possibilities - a) the top secret features don't exist at all; b) they're new additional applications that we haven't seen or heard about yet; or, c) they're hardware dependent and thus require a new piece of kit to be used.
I think c), and I won't be at all surprised if some completely new type of computer comes out in the next few weeks, bringing Multi-touch to the Mac - maybe the fabled MacBook Thin with a new type of giant multitouch trackpad...
I find that phrase quite interesting, and wonder if it means that those "top secret features" that Jobs alluded to are actually going to arrive in Leopard this week after all.
We just might not be able to see them yet.
As far as I understand it, there are only three possibilities - a) the top secret features don't exist at all; b) they're new additional applications that we haven't seen or heard about yet; or, c) they're hardware dependent and thus require a new piece of kit to be used.
I think c), and I won't be at all surprised if some completely new type of computer comes out in the next few weeks, bringing Multi-touch to the Mac - maybe the fabled MacBook Thin with a new type of giant multitouch trackpad...
Mere mortals are stuck with the 9a559 build of Leopard, so there's really no telling what the final version looks like until it's in our hands.
That said, Safari under 9a559 looks exactly like Safari under 10.4, down to the irritating random beachballs.
This all sounds good. I see iPhone and verbs didn't take long to get into a Leopard OS discussion.
My bad. Totally not intentional. The story has been updated.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/22/technology/22apple.html
the keyword is average. 10.0 arrived in 2001. 10.5 is actually the 6th revision to OS X. so 6 releases between 2001-2007 is one per year