Leopard Build 9A326 Seeded

[Voidness]

http://www.macshrine.com/2006/12/09/exclusive-leopard-9a326-seeded/

Apple yesterday seeded a new version of Leopard (build 9A326) to internal Apple employees. This latest build is reported to have fixed bugs from the last build (9A303) such as Quicktime crashing, printing problems and issues with .Mac such as iDisk synching. Apple continues to gloss over the interface, refining it even more and there is an overly presence of black gloss. This build is also completely stable on Apple’s latest Core 2 Duo MacBook and MacBook Pro. Apple is trying to gear down development to get this build out to developers before the New Year. New “internal” features include improved Core technology, faster boot-up times and support for external flash memory as temporary system memory (similar to Microsoft Vistas tech). Boot Camp 1.2 is included in the build but no readme was accompanied and we cannot identify any new features, it appears the same as the current 1.1.2 beta to us. Spotlight has got new meta search abilities including the ability to search other Macs on a network. Safari 3 has improved RSS support, with ability to view videocasts and listen to podcasts in browser. iSync is not present in the build it has been replaced with a new Sync Manager. TextEdit also features support to export and open new Word 2007 documents.

Where are the top secret features? Common Apple, January is too far away.

 

[Zwhaler]

Don't worry, they will come. It will just take time, as all things do.

 

[Maxwell Smart]

Man, I can't wait to see (and use) the new interface for leopard. I'm really looking forward to apple moving beyond aqua and refining the finder . I've already installed UNO to get rid of all the brushed metal nonsense but I want apple to blow us away with leopards new features and interface, is that asking too much? . I would be so floored if apple released it in January, though that's probably not gonna happen

 

[adrianblaine]

Man, I can't wait to see (and use) the new interface for leopard. I'm really looking forward to apple moving beyond aqua and refining the finder . I've already installed UNO to get rid of all the brushed metal nonsense but I want apple to blow us away with leopards new features and interface, is that asking too much? . I would be so floored if apple released it in January, though that's probably not gonna happen

I'm looking forward to these things as well. I've been so busy with school that I just realized Macworld is less than a month away. Even if they don't release it in January, it will be cool to see the "final" version being shown off in January. Tiger was released around 3 months after Macworld right? It really isn't that far away.

and speaking of Maxwell Smart... has anyone noticed that they are making a new Get Smart movie with Steve Carell as Maxwell Smart and Ann Hathaway as Agent 99? I would be looking forward to this as much as Leopard except for that I have a really bad feeling about it... I'm nervous when they go and remake some of my favorite shows/books. I can't think of a better person than Steve to play Maxwell though.

 

[AdeFowler]

TextEdit also features support to export and open new Word 2007 documents.

Isn't that something that even Word on the mac can't do yet?

 

[Shadow]

YES!!!!! I literally cannot WAIT until JANUARY!!! I want Leopard so bad! Ew, that sounded so sick!

 

[Fleetwood Mac]

Isn't that something that even Word on the mac can't do yet?

It certainly is.
http://blogs.msdn.com/macmojo/

 

[Sean7512]

Isn't that something that even Word on the mac can't do yet?

Correct you are. That is a great feature

 

[stoid]

I would love to see some screenshots of the 'new' black gloss interface, ehhh?

 

[Killyp]

Word 2007 is pants anyway, someone at my school is running the Beta of office 2007. It's got the most overly complex and ridiculous interface...

 

[Fleetwood Mac]

Word 2007 is pants anyway, someone at my school is running the Beta of office 2007. It's got the most overly complex and ridiculous interface...

I don't know...I ran one of the RCs for a while. It crashed less than 2003 [don't get me started on MS Word 2003] and seemed easier to navigate after a week of use. I still prefer Word : Mac (a lot). It does seem like a bit of a bloated interace [Win. Office, not Mac], but perhaps and improvement. We'll see.