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Mac OS X 10.6 Called 'Snow Leopard', All Cocoa?
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As a matter of interest have they trade marked any other groups of animal names that might give a hint to OS 11? Bird types might work well, OS 11 Kestrel, 11.1 Hawk, 11.2 Eagle .... (Anything but dogs or monkeys
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Core Foundation is a renamed Carbon API. I forgot what but if you follow the Apple Carbon mailing list it will be in the archives.
As long as it's free, they can not add "new" options all they want. Just improve the current ones and make my computer zippier. All the speed and security improvements make sense if it goes to Intel only because they can optimize so much of the code. Also, the January 2009 release date becomes more believable too.
I preferred the ideas of liger and thunder cats.
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Finally it's revealed what took the bite out of the apple logo all those years ago!
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Finally it's revealed what took the bite out of the apple logo all those years ago!
It makes perfect sense. They are aiming to change the landscape not by improving bits and bobs but redefining the mobile landscape. The age of totally new better and fresher stuff is over simply because they are jumping into a new world, NOT building the old one.
it's not as if the only two choices for the cost of this are 'free' and '$129'. They could deviate from this, as these are very strange reports.
I'd love to see apple focus on stability and performance for a while with minimal new features.
But I don't get why they'd give it a new version number if it's just bugfixes. Nor would people be happy to pay $129 if it's just a service pack. Now, if they're going to give it away free to 10.5 owners since it's just bugfixes, now you're talking.
I'm very skeptical about dropping any carbon support, much less all of it. Apple seems to be in no hurry to update their apps to 64/cocoa.
But I don't get why they'd give it a new version number if it's just bugfixes. Nor would people be happy to pay $129 if it's just a service pack. Now, if they're going to give it away free to 10.5 owners since it's just bugfixes, now you're talking.
I'm very skeptical about dropping any carbon support, much less all of it. Apple seems to be in no hurry to update their apps to 64/cocoa.
When they say there won't be any "major OS changes," I think they mean with the underlying kernel technology. As in, what we saw in 10.5 will remain the same in 10.6. (After all, we don't have 128-bit computing yet.)
However, I do think 10.6 will still add new features. Maybe nothing huge like Time Machine or Spaces, but there are still things that could be improved, such as a real Finder, maybe themes, etc.
However, I do think 10.6 will still add new features. Maybe nothing huge like Time Machine or Spaces, but there are still things that could be improved, such as a real Finder, maybe themes, etc.
Err... Firewire. Where were you when the 5G was released?
And don't tell me it doesn't matter. USB is technically rubbish, causes much higher CPU load for the same data transfer even if modern implementations can almost keep up with FW, and the connectors are mechanically rubbish too.
I guess it really is time to start thinking about retiring the ol' G5
If the rumour is indeed true then why the hell would you want to buy, buy a G5??
Shouldn't it be "bye, bye G5"??
When was that ever reported? I thought it was pretty clear that 10.4.11 was the end of the line.
Isn't RI a feature?
If they do this I'm switching to Windows. Dropping Carbon completely would be the worst. move. ever.
Steve Jobs needs to go sooner than Ballmer if he things that is a good move.
Steve Jobs needs to go sooner than Ballmer if he things that is a good move.
Hmm.... 10.6 for mainly a stability and security upgrade. That I wouldn't mind.
Because they'd focus entirely on that, maybe adding/enhancing only a few new features.
But then, I guess if that were to be true, 10.7 would benefit from that greatly. They can focus on small back end improvements, and really big awesome front end features! And that'll be in 2010, maybe before Windows 7 comes out.
Hmm... Windows 7 and 10.7, interesting lol
Because they'd focus entirely on that, maybe adding/enhancing only a few new features.
But then, I guess if that were to be true, 10.7 would benefit from that greatly. They can focus on small back end improvements, and really big awesome front end features! And that'll be in 2010, maybe before Windows 7 comes out.
Hmm... Windows 7 and 10.7, interesting lol
I feel burned. Faced with a dying hard drive in my iMac G5, I chose to replace the drive and buy Leopard instead of getting a new Mac. That was like two months ago.
Yeah, I know that I can run Leopard indefinitely and still have email and web and all that stuff, but I'm also enough of an enthusiast to want the latest and greatest.
Although if I want to look at this a bit more rationally, the cost of my upgrades was only $200 and change (hard drive, Time Machine backup drive, and Leopard).
Yeah, I know that I can run Leopard indefinitely and still have email and web and all that stuff, but I'm also enough of an enthusiast to want the latest and greatest.
Although if I want to look at this a bit more rationally, the cost of my upgrades was only $200 and change (hard drive, Time Machine backup drive, and Leopard).
I might add that the cocoa framework is great for layers being used now like Front Row , Quicklook and....Multi-Touch.
I have not read up a lot on the 10.6 rumors but i don't see it likely that they will be dropping PPC entirely. I can see them dropping the G4 but not the G5. I mean really, there are Quad core G5 still out there that should still be able to run the next major release of the OS. I see 10.6 being PPC and Intel but 10.7 moving to Intel only.
I know my current iMac G5 runs Leopard just fine and i can't see why it would not handle 10.6 decently either.
And about 10.6 being released in January... I don't see that happening. I think it is to soon for a major release, but a lot can change in that time i guess. To be honest i would not mind seeing Apple move to an every 2 year cycle for major OS releases.
I know my current iMac G5 runs Leopard just fine and i can't see why it would not handle 10.6 decently either.
And about 10.6 being released in January... I don't see that happening. I think it is to soon for a major release, but a lot can change in that time i guess. To be honest i would not mind seeing Apple move to an every 2 year cycle for major OS releases.
Wouldn't it be just as bad a move as 10.5 dropping Classic? Wasn't Carbon always designed to simply be a stepping stone, from Classic to Cocoa?