Since I believe they've dropped the Lynx trademark having this as the last cat and dropping PPC/32 bit/Carbon next time would make some sense, and they'd need to give a lot of warning for doing that.
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Mac OS X 10.6 Called 'Snow Leopard', All Cocoa?
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Since I believe they've dropped the Lynx trademark having this as the last cat and dropping PPC/32 bit/Carbon next time would make some sense, and they'd need to give a lot of warning for doing that.
if it's merely a performance and stability upgrade, i bet it will be free as a download to all 64-bit leopard owners! can't wait!!!
Thank you for MAKING Sense...
Reading ALL the rumors and speculation about the future of Apple / Mac / iPhones etc. gets a little crazy... Glad to read something with a little, "head-screwed-on-straight" perspective.... Thanks
Huh?
if they get if of carbon then doesn't that mean no photoshop, Microsoft office and a bunch of other popular software?
and since when has apple followed that sort of business plan? - i very much doubt that apple will do this especially as it seems to just be a costing service pack!
it may only be the mobile platform for the iphone - snow leopard does sound like a form of "Leopard Lite".
if they get if of carbon then doesn't that mean no photoshop, Microsoft office and a bunch of other popular software?
and since when has apple followed that sort of business plan? - i very much doubt that apple will do this especially as it seems to just be a costing service pack!
it may only be the mobile platform for the iphone - snow leopard does sound like a form of "Leopard Lite".
Snow Leopard?!
Did anyone believe this crap? Really?
Did anyone catch the "CODE NAME" portion, or did we all have mini-attacks while reading those 2 words. Whoever just starts assuming that the next OS is really going to be named Snow Leopard is just lost without a paddle. People would walk into an Apple store, see the box on a shelf with the picture of a soft white kitty and laugh. It makes some sense with the white snow leopard desktop background I admittedly like, but really... Apple is minimalistic, if you haven't gathered that - single named OS X's will not change.
Let's all exhale while reading rumors until next week, shall we?
Did anyone believe this crap? Really?
Did anyone catch the "CODE NAME" portion, or did we all have mini-attacks while reading those 2 words. Whoever just starts assuming that the next OS is really going to be named Snow Leopard is just lost without a paddle. People would walk into an Apple store, see the box on a shelf with the picture of a soft white kitty and laugh. It makes some sense with the white snow leopard desktop background I admittedly like, but really... Apple is minimalistic, if you haven't gathered that - single named OS X's will not change.
Let's all exhale while reading rumors until next week, shall we?
didn't Adobe announce a couple months ago that they wouldn't be doing a 64-bit version of their apps next update?
Do you think there might be a reason why? Like re-doing it for Cocoa?
Thats exactly what Leopard is like at the moment. The 10.5.3 update was excellent in my opinion. Leopard has been brilliant on my end on 2 different Macs. The recent update just solidified that.
So what are you going on about? You tried using Vista recently. Everyone who has a Mac on here should be thankful and the ones that complain should stop, give Vista a whirl.
I would now be surprised at all if 10.6 is Intel-only and all cocoa.. apple has been trying to make devs migrate to Cocoa from carbon with bigger and bigger sticks with nails in them.. dropping carbon 64 was a big one.. dropping PPC forces ppl to buy new hardware and cleans up these "ultra dense universal binarys" where a dev has to have support all these skews... PPC 32, 64, intel 32, 64..
But i'd also love to see ZTS..
But i'd also love to see ZTS..
Aren't "." updates spoused to be stability and performance upgrades?
I just think paying $120 for an OS that is practically just a big bug fix is ridiculous.
I just think paying $120 for an OS that is practically just a big bug fix is ridiculous.
Snow Leopard which would focus on Intel makes a lot of sense. I don't think they would call it 10.6 but who knows. Cougar and Lion are the last two big cats. They could probably use Lion last.
Given how lovely 10.5 Server is performing on our organization's Jan 2008 XServe, if Apple really goes this route they can expect one hell of a pissed off phone call from me in January. Especially if they want me to buy it again.
That said, unless this year's WWDC is going to be extra-supercalifragilistic, my guess is that this is less of a "rumor" and more "wild speculation" at this time. It just doesn't make sense given the delays releasing 10.5 and Apple's previous line re: slowing down major OS X releases. As far as I can tell, Apple's also given no heads-up to developers on this either (although since most of them are bound by a NDA, this is speculation on my part), and there isn't anything in the WWDC promotional materials that would point in this direction.
Snow Leopard? After already having Leopard? Sounds the dumbest effen name! Sheesh!
Bring on Cougar or something. Hell, Battle Cat sounded awesome maybe even Lion-O!
lol, I can picture my Macbook Pro starting up: "Thunder, thunder, thundercats...HOOOOOOOO!" leading into my password screen.
Bring on Cougar or something. Hell, Battle Cat sounded awesome maybe even Lion-O!
lol, I can picture my Macbook Pro starting up: "Thunder, thunder, thundercats...HOOOOOOOO!" leading into my password screen.
Repackaging Leopard and selling it to people that already own it? Brilliant.
P.S. April Fools was two months ago, please stop with these joke rumours.
P.S. April Fools was two months ago, please stop with these joke rumours.
Or conversely, since I don't have 10.5 Leopard installed (still with 10.4 Tiger), does that mean I need to upgrade to Leopard 10.5 to upgrade to Leopard Snow 10.6 or can I jump to Leopard Snow 10.6 if I decide to upgrade?
Just because they haven't trademarked Snow Leopard yet, doesn't mean they won't.
It would definitely be a move from the past however - the first double-barrelled name.
Snow Leopard might be the codename for a big 10.5.4? Or maybe a break from the full $129 updates towards cheaper, smaller updates in the future (whilst they start work on OS XI)
Once again, the ability of people to get annoyed at rumours is astounding!
Bird types might work well, OS 11 Kestrel, 11.1 Hawk, 11.2 Eagle .... (Anything but dogs or monkeys
Oh come on I like OSX11.1 - Chihuahua (Cross marketed with the new Disney Chihuahua film of course
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I thought I'd have more time - based on the release history of Mac OS X and the trend towards longer stretches between releases, I figured the next Mac OS X would come in late 2009-sometime 2010. I don't think anybody projected a OS X stability upgrade - that hasn't been done since 10.1, and that was largely because 10.0 was considerably less functional and usuable than Leopard.
LOL.
This reminds me of those posts early Jan saying. "For ****s sake there is NO WAY THEY WILL CALL IT MACBOOK AIR!!!"