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Leopard Release In Mid/Late April?

So I saw an article on: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Latest-Rumor-Apple-039-s-Leopard-Scheduled-For-April-49374.shtml

It said at adobe's creative suite 3 release in late march...i think it was like the 26th or something leopard's date will be revealed and it is on schedule for an april release. Unfortunately I don't think the GUI is changing much considering this is a screenshot of 'leopard':
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zblaxberg said:
So I saw an article on: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Latest-Rumor-Apple-039-s-Leopard-Scheduled-For-April-49374.shtml

It said at adobe's creative suite 3 release in late march...i think it was like the 26th or something leopard's date will be revealed and it is on schedule for an april release. Unfortunately I don't think the GUI is changing much considering this is a screenshot of 'leopard':
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Did you read that article?

It's using MacRumors for it's info.
 
Macrumors said:


According to multiple anonymous sources, Apple's next installment of Mac OS X (named Leopard) will arrive in mid to late April with an exact shipping date being announced later this month, perhaps alongside Adobe's Creative Suite 3 event.

While the sources are anonymous and cannot be confirmed at this time by other known and traditionally reliable means, agreement from such a variety of sources is rare. Still, Leopard's release has been prone to much hype and speculation, and we hesitate to place too much hope in such rumors (yet).

The latest seed of Leopard, released to developers March 2nd, showed progress but still had many serious bugs waiting to be exterminated.

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meh. lightroom is my number one software priority, and I'm saving up for 31mm and 50mm primes. maybe I'll get Leopard if time machine is great, now that I have a backup drive.
 
IMO Leopard will be previewed around the end of April/ start of May and shipping in the last weeks of June.

Yes, I honestly believe that if Apple managed to keep the iPhone a secret for two years I surely believe they can hold those top-secret features for as much as they want. I don't think they are holding those features to prevent Microsoft from copying them, I think it's all related to the fact that Steve Jobs is a demanding person and whatever ideas he and his team came up with are being a programmer's hell and they're taking a while to be sorted out.

Regarding the fact that "Apple doesn't have any new features because if they did they would have shown'em to developers because of correct implementation"... ok, honestly, I don't understand crap about FreeBSD, Darwin, Unix or whatever Programming Language OSX runs on, however, from what I've learned so far (from coding HTML, XML and ActionScript) when the code is made correctly and well structured you minimize the risks involved in bugs and other problems. It also makes implementation a lot easier and dynamic.
So, I can only assume some of these new-features will simply be a layer of the OS that doesn't mess with the stuff that developers should have in their hands and I trust Apple programmers to know what they're doing.

One of the things that makes me strongly believe that these new-features will be there is the fact that Apple lives up to it's own credibility, they say, they do. Steve Jobs is a unique CEO in the world today and one of the things that makes him different than anyone else is the fact that what he says people can take for granted, thus the hype generated by the iPod, iPhone and other Apple products, everyone trusts his word. Can you imagine the tech-world headlines if Leopard is bundled exactly how it was shown in WWDC 06? I can:

"Steve LIED" : "Leopard Flop, Nothing top-secret about that" : "Leopard = Tiger" and bla bla bla.

What I'm saying is, they have to give us something, Steve said it, they can't take the risk of everyone pointing the finger on them for promising something as big as this and never talking about it again. Also, the first goal for Apple right now it to blow Vista away, and they're not going to impress the global PC population if they don't throw some fantastic features and more eye-candy into OSX right? :) My 2 cents and sorry for the long reply.. I got carried away.
 
True in my case

Switching2Mac said:
Many potential Apple customers are not buying Macs and it’s all because of Leopard! You would think all this new interest in Leopard would relate to an increase in Mac sales, even Vista is selling more new PCs. Why is Apple not selling as many systems?

More on this:
Leopard Hurting Mac Sales

Mike - Mac vs PC
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since I found this rumor, I'm withholding the purchase of my wife's macbook pro until leopard. I was planning on buying this weekend...

as a result, she is "withholding" :(
(there really needs to be a crying smiley to visually capture that last part)
 
Release DATE before release

I have no idea at what point within the 3-month period of spring Leopard will be introduced, but I have a feeling that we will see a release date announcement at least a good month or so before the actual release. I doubt that they'll just drop it on us all of the sudden. Panther had a release date, and I believe Tiger too.
 
johnee said:
since I found this rumor, I'm withholding the purchase of my wife's macbook pro until leopard. I was planning on buying this weekend...

as a result, she is "withholding" :(
(there really needs to be a crying smiley to visually capture that last part)
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Not sure if this has already come up but Apple normally offer "free" upgrades to people who have bought Mac's in the months leading up to an OS X update. You normally have to pay something like $15 for the discs and handling, but that's about it :)
 
hob said:
Not sure if this has already come up but Apple normally offer "free" upgrades to people who have bought Mac's in the months leading up to an OS X update. You normally have to pay something like $15 for the discs and handling, but that's about it :)
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It's not months.It's 30 days.
 
johnee said:
since I found this rumor, I'm withholding the purchase of my wife's macbook pro until leopard. I was planning on buying this weekend...

as a result, she is "withholding" :(
(there really needs to be a crying smiley to visually capture that last part)
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oh you poor b@stard :)

tell her that it's not fair. tell her YOU should be holding out on her...that YOU feel guilty.

if she turns the tide, then just hold out for a few hours and then give it saying you don't feel bad anymore :)

or, just get on knees, beg, plead whimper :)
 
Peace said:
It's not months.It's 30 days.
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No, eluk is right. It's always been only between the date of announcement and the date of release. So far, that's always been less than 30 days. If you are counting on that discount, do not buy until after Leopard's release date is officially announced, and make sure Apple mentions the up-to-date program in the announcement.
 
I'm with blodwyn ...

and for the last month I've had the notion of a March 24th announcement from Apple, and then for a public release and sale of Leopard to be before the end of March. :apple:

From the nineteenth to the twenty-fourth of this week these personal prophetic notions I think I possess will be either confirmed, :eek: and I will then surely have one more arrow in my sling to believe I truly am on a mission of God ..., or the prophetic office I have in mind will suffer a crushing disappointment. May the Gods be kind to me. :eek:
 
jacg said:
The developer connection video suggests that developers get their apps ready for 2008. What does that mean? Leopard in Spring 2008 or no resolution independence in Leopard to begin with?
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Either that or they want developers to have their A-game on the table when all those switchers get Macs for Christmas and want to get stuff to use on them.
 
10.4 was released on April 29 and free upgrades were given for purchases on April 12-28.
 
tingly said:
10.4 was released on April 29 and free upgrades were given for purchases on April 12-28.
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You omitted a valuable peice of information...

April 12: release date for 10.4 ("Tiger") announced
April 29: 10.4 in the shops
 
johnee said:
since I found this rumor, I'm withholding the purchase of my wife's macbook pro until leopard. I was planning on buying this weekend...

as a result, she is "withholding" :(
(there really needs to be a crying smiley to visually capture that last part)
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Not worth it. Soooo not worth it.
 
Leopard is hurting Mac sales because people think Leopard is more than it probably will be :D

At the end of the day it's a point release, and whilst there's a big difference between Cheetah and Tiger, was the leap between Panther and Tiger really that huge?

Yes, there are some nice features, but OS X has been generally the same for most of its life.

If the updates weren't named after big cats, would people actually be as bothered? :)
 
AlexisV said:
Leopard is hurting Mac sales because people think Leopard is more than it probably will be :D
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No it's not, because the majority of Mac buyers don't know what the hell Leopard (or Tiger for that matter) is in the first place.
 
hob said:
Not sure if this has already come up but Apple normally offer "free" upgrades to people who have bought Mac's in the months leading up to an OS X update. You normally have to pay something like $15 for the discs and handling, but that's about it :)
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pretend i'm johnee carson when I say this :
I did not know that


That is news to me. thanks. I'm getting the itch to buy one, and i don't know if i can hold out any longer.

My only concern is having problems when I upgrade the OS. It seems inevitable that a significant distribution of the population has problems when they upgrade (or even apply patches to) the OS. I really don't want to take that risk since OS X is completely new to me.
 
Keebler said:
oh you poor b@stard :)

tell her that it's not fair. tell her YOU should be holding out on her...that YOU feel guilty.

if she turns the tide, then just hold out for a few hours and then give it saying you don't feel bad anymore :)

or, just get on knees, beg, plead whimper :)
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She knows me too well, your last suggestion is more in line with the current situation.
 
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