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Mac OS X 10.6 to Debut at WWDC 2008?

It could be that 10.6 is the multi-touch version of OSX. In other words, it wouldn't have any new "core" features (such as quick look or time machine) but will instead be a reworked OS to work with multitouch. This would also explain why it would be intel and 64-bit only as only new Macs would be multi-touch capable.

This is what my money is on.
 
Dmac77 said:
EDIT: What MAJOR app that is available on Windows, isn't available on OS X?
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3D Studio Max.. :( which is a real bummer considering how important it is in large parts of the games industry.

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Looking forward to seeing some 10.6 features anyway.. I really wouldn't have a problem with them dropping PPC support at this point. Anything to trim out the fat - PPC isn't the future anymore.
 
JG271 said:
Not only that, but pro tools users still don't have leopard plugins. It would'nt make sense to bring out a new OS so soon!
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To solve that they just need to support the old OS on new hardware for a year or so, which they should do anyway, and it doesn't stop them doing new OS releases every 18 months.

Manic Mouse said:
It could be that 10.6 is the multi-touch version of OSX. In other words, it wouldn't have any new "core" features (such as quick look or time machine) but will instead be a reworked OS to work with multitouch. This would also explain why it would be intel and 64-bit only as only new Macs would be multi-touch capable.

This is what my money is on.
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Intel only maybe, 64 bit only makes no sense yet. Apple have done the 64 bit transition well, so there is no point.
 
Manic Mouse said:
It could be that 10.6 is the multi-touch version of OSX. In other words, it wouldn't have any new "core" features (such as quick look or time machine) but will instead be a reworked OS to work with multitouch. This would also explain why it would be intel and 64-bit only as only new Macs would be multi-touch capable.

This is what my money is on.
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I still don't understand, why people want multi-touch on their notebooks/desktops, unless we're talking wacom stylus type touch, or trackpad multi-touch. Why would you want your screen to get all dirty? doesn't make sense to me. To each his own.
 
Dmac77 said:
I still don't understand, why people want multi-touch on their notebooks/desktops, unless we're talking wacom stylus type touch, or trackpad multi-touch. Why would you want your screen to get all dirty? doesn't make sense to me. To each his own.
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Replace the bottom keyboard/tackpad of a laptop with another multi-touch display (a la the DS). Much more versatile than what we have. I would imagine this is a fairly obvious application for the technology. After the iPhone the standard keyboard/trackpad/mouse feels pretty limited.

eraserhead said:
Intel only maybe, 64 bit only makes no sense yet. Apple have done the 64 bit transition well, so there is no point.
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Well the only hardware running 10.6 (were this to be true) would be 64 bit, so why not?
 
Eraserhead said:
Core Duo was 32 bit ;). So the first generation of Intel Macs was 32 bit only.
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i can confirm this as i have a core duo MBP. damn Apple for being so secretive and me not waiting a little while longer for the core 2 duos to come out :( i could be using 64bit glory right now! and my comment would have been snappier! :D
 
This just feels far to early. Or maybe time has just flown by. I would prefer Leopard with far less bugs before 10.6, or maybe 10.6 will give us bluray etc and less bugs with no other major changes to the OS. But surely this can be in a revised version of 10.5.

Will just have to wait and see...
 
nuckinfutz said:
The Problem is:

There's no cache to "OS X XI" it looks and sounds awkward.

"Oh Ess Eleven" too verbose. People will start calling it "Oh ess exx eye" as well. Expect Apple to ride the 10.x nomenclature all the way to the end.
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There are no rules demanding Apple use Roman Numerals. After all OS9 wasn't called OS IX. OS 11 looks ok to me, but I don't think that will happen for a while...
 
Secret Features

I think the secret features that Steve Jobs talked about a few years ago were not Coverflow or the new finder (wallpaper?). Those features he was talking about were just not ready so they will include them with this 10.6 release. And I bet it will drop PowerPC support because they just can't compete with Intel's future CPUs in 2009/2010. It is ready to die like OS 9 and make the OS even more streamline and efficient.
 
nuckinfutz said:
I do know what I'm talking about. I worked for an Assistive Technology firm and trained Doctors and people with disabilities in addition to helping with ergonomic assessments. I never said it was going to be compulsory. It'll work for certain narrow uses. So what was that that you were saying again?
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You said they had it all wrong. Clearly they don't.

While OS advancement may sound silly to you others realize that Apple is on the cusp of multiple transitions.
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All of which require you to purchase a new operating system every 12-18 months? No, I don't think so.

From Carbon to Cocoa...from PPC to Intel and from 32-Bit to 64-bit. How long should we expect for the ship to stop rocking here?
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Well, since XP has been around for seven years, kept up with technology, works fine with VBA, .NET, etc, runs on Intel and AMD architecture and has 32 and 64 bit versions all without having to buy a new OS everytime they introduced new things you tell me.

It's a rip off aimed at gullible people which, unfortunately, seems to work.
 
Earendil said:
They have some 17,000 employees, I'm pretty sure they can have a few thousand working on 10.6, a few thousand working on 10.5.4, and still have a couple people left to work on really advanced dev and other areas.
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Too many cooks spoil the broth.

Around 10,000 of those employees are retail related as well.
 
No - i very much doubt that 10.6 will drop PPC support, however it may have features that are intel only. i reckon that 10.7 will be intel only - and january 2009 seems a bit soon - only 15 months after leopard - perhaps june/july 2009.

Reckon it's called Cougar
 
I'm thinking that releasing the new edition in January 09 is awfully early. If they were to do it, I'd hope they'd make it a downloadable software update and just boost the version number up to 10.6. Especially if it's just a "stability" release.
 
trentoncain said:
Another thing that bothers me is while you have to pay for the upgrade you also have to go out and by iLife again. Can't they simply include this with the OS for the same price???? 200 bucks is a lot to drop every year to year 1/2.

Trenton
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Then be like me and don't upgrade. My mini is still running 10.3.9 :cool:

I'm hoping for some speed increases though, and more customization options. Leopard (while it mostly works amazingly well) needs refinement.
 
I wouldn't think that 10.6 would drop PowerPC support. That will come in 10.7 in my opinion. I think that 10.6 would drop G4 support and only support the G5 which would be in iMac and Power Mac models. I still hope that there is still some type of major feature to be reveled that no one here knows about. :cool:
 
PMR said:
sse3, ssse3 or sse4 in the new penryns.
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I see your point, I hadn't though of that :eek:. But firstly existing Mac code has similar speed-ups for Altivec, and secondly when coding new stuff you only add these optimisations in at the end where they are needed so you can just use the less efficient original code for PPC customers.
 
One thing i noticed in the iPhone SDK was that there is no quicktime framework, it is called MediaPlayer, i believe a rebrand of QuickTime will come, and a rework of it's underpinnings (as far as i know it is still mostly carbon). This makes sense because apple needs to show the world that Carbon is dead, and there is no better way to do it than rewrite all Carbon and semi-Carbon based apps, that would be QuickTime, iTunes, Final Cut Studio, and Aperture (possibly even more apps i can't recall). Other than that we will se Core Touch for desktop Mac's, and MultiTouch views/controlls for all included Applications.
 
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