Mac OS X v10.7 predictions

[EV0LUTION]

I think it should be called liger, and it will have magical powers

 

[steve2112]

Actually, I think it will have three names. One that the general public uses, one that only the faithful will know, and one that only Apple engineers will know.

 

[yojitani]

I sure hope they include PPC support. It'll piss me off if I go out and buy a new PowerBook G5 only to find out it's not supported by 10.7.

This post is funny on so many geeky levels... well 2 levels. But it is funny. Beautiful edit. I even get the reference (which is rare these days).

Incidentally, no idea what features it might have. I do think that a simultaneous dual boot would be pretty great. I am able to sort of do that with Parallels on a difference 'Space'. It makes checking Windows compatibility on the web soo much easier.

 

[ceezy3000]

I think it should be called liger, and it will have magical powers

like this?

 

[t0mat0]

10.7 - There isn't a box? Just a memory stick in a shuffle style box?

 

[NoSmokingBandit]

No predictions, but a wish list. Oddly, this is the same wishlist i had for 10.6.

•Finder needs an update. Its simplicity is getting in the way of productivity.
•Unify the damn gui!
•Snapping windows like Windows 7 has would be great

 

[aethelbert]

I'm still throwing all my bets on Mac OS 10.7 "House Cat."

 

[spinnerlys]

Why do I have this feeling that MacOS X 10.6 may be the last major development of the MacOS X line?

I (in my humble opinion!) wouldn't be surprised that Apple will announce the before the end of 2009 the development of MacOS XI 11.0, the first major OS architectural change in the MacOS design since the original MacOS X 10.0 with full ZFS support and the "Marble" interface standard. With beta kits becoming available to developers by WWDC in June 2010....

Steve Jobs said somewhere and sometime ago, that OS X is the OS for the next two decades for them. It might have been said at the introduction of OS X or later (of course, couldn't be earlier), but OS X seems the way to go for the next future.

What I'd like to see is a return to PPC stability in modern Apple machines.
My iBook still feels more stable than my current MBP.

 

[Keniff]

I think it will be:

OS X 10.7 "Garfield". He is a big cat after all. But thats just me.

You're all wrong, my friend on the inside told me that OS X 10.8 is going to be called Gibbon

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[Ttownbeast]

Perhaps they my totally revamp it and call it OS 11 aka "Spinal Tap" LOL

 

[conch575]

Maybe with OS XI they can use rock band names. Mac OS XI: Spinal Tap. "This OS goes to 11!"

Hahahah I love it, should be the tagline.

 

[dmr727]

Beautiful edit. I even get the reference (which is rare these days).

Heh! I sure invoked the old school there, didn't I?

 

[r.j.s]

I sure hope they include PPC support. It'll piss me off if I go out and buy a new PowerBook G5 only to find out it's not supported by 10.7.

Shall we start a petition for Apple to include PPC support in 10.7?

 

[dmmcintyre3]

Shall we start a petition for Apple to include PPC support in 10.7?

Yes Yes Yes! add 10.6 in there too!

 

[Schtumple]

Shall we start a petition for Apple to include PPC support in 10.7?

Only for the PowerBook G5 though, obviously.

 

[Pika]

Run Windows applications without Windows but within Mac OS X instead of BootCamp.

In the future, i hope the Wine HQ project (http://www.winehq.org/) get better.

 

[Ttownbeast]

By the time 10.7 is out likely I'll have bought a cheap used intel mac at some computer recycling warehouse for 100 bucks and sunk in 500 for upgrades again so I won't be worried about PPC support

 

[TSE]

I honestly don't know what more they can add to Mac OS X except for improve 3D performance and reliability for me.

 

[r.j.s]

Only for the PowerBook G5 though, obviously.

Obviously. It should be released by then anyway.

 

[dmr727]

Shall we start a petition for Apple to include PPC support in 10.7?

Yes! And not only that, when I install 10.7 on my PPC, I want the OS to always put "Pro" and "Collector's Edition" on the end of my machine's name. So Profiler will tell me I have a PowerBook G5 Pro Collector's Edition.

 

[r.j.s]

Yes! And not only that, when I install 10.7 on my PPC, I want the OS to always put "Pro" and "Collector's Edition" on the end of my machine's name. So Profiler will tell me I have a PowerBook G5 Pro Collector's Edition.

Whoa, hold on there ... you can't have both a Pro and a Collector's Edition PB G5. That's just not possible.

 

[Schtumple]

GUYS! Look what I found hiding in the tubes of the internetwebs!

I think this is the real deal, I don't think this is photoshopped, I can tell from the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time.

 

[r.j.s]

I think this is the real deal, I don't think this is photoshopped, I can tell from the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time.

FAKE! It's missing the lol saying.

 

[NoSmokingBandit]

FAKE! It's missing the lol saying.

Eariler builds didnt have the Lol phrase. They added it later though, didnt you wait for the "one more thing..." at the keynote?

 

[artguy10]

This post is funny on so many geeky levels... well 2 levels. But it is funny. Beautiful edit. I even get the reference (which is rare these days).

Incidentally, no idea what features it might have. I do think that a simultaneous dual boot would be pretty great. I am able to sort of do that with Parallels on a difference 'Space'. It makes checking Windows compatibility on the web soo much easier.

So... wanna share the 10.7/PPC G5 joke with those who joined the Apple community after the transition to Intel?