Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Other WWDC Possibilities: iPhone OS 4, Mac Pro, Apple TV, Cloud-Based Services

Maybe Quicktime X will be updated, I still launch Quicktime 7 and VLC for almost everything.

Just a random thought, If I were an Apple Engineer, I might tweak my system to report version 10.7 before browsing rumor sights and the like just for the fun of it. But I am actually really hoping we will at least hear a little about it. I love my iPhone, but I don't want all of the Apple events turning into iPhone/iPad events; I want a good mix of iPhone/iPod/iPad, AppleTV, Mac's, Software (Operating Systems, iLife, iWork, Final Cut Studio, etc.)
anyho you get the point. I love seeing them progress in all areas. 🙂
 
I have a feeling there will be a preview of OS 4.0 for the iPad, which will be dramatically different from the iPhone version. Features like widgets, a different style of multitasking, or even real file management. Who knows!
 
aiqw9182 said:
See if this works:
http://www.osxbook.com/blog/2009/08/31/is-your-machine-good-enough-for-snow-leopard-k64/

or this:
http://www.thrull.com/corner/mac/SystemModeConfigurator/
Click to expand...
http://www.osxbook.com/blog/2009/08/31/is-your-machine-good-enough-for-snow-leopard-k64/ said:
The second limitation is annoying. As a developer, if you knowingly wish to boot into K64 to test something, you can’t on certain machines even though they are technically perfectly capable. I ran into this on a Unibody MacBook, which has 64-bit EFI but is not a "Pro" machine. Also, it’s ironic that you can, in fact, boot Snow Leopard into K64 on the very same computer when you run it as a guest operating system in a virtual machine.
Click to expand...
that's my case; thanks for the link, trying it now.

(the funny thing is in the release candidate versions of snow leopard they did not had that restriction and everything was just fine)
 
DARKJ3DI said:
If the Mac gets no love at WWDC then we know its on its way out.

R.I.P Macintosh. 🙁
Click to expand...

The Mac isn't dead.

TorontoLRT said:
I have a feeling there will be a preview of OS 4.0 for the iPad, which will be dramatically different from the iPhone version. Features like widgets, a different style of multitasking, or even real file management. Who knows!
Click to expand...

I don't think it'll be radically different with widgets and such but it'll be enough to drive even more people to it in place of a laptop.
 
aucl said:
Better not try; I just bricked my MB using that guide... 😉
Where do I have my SL disk?
Click to expand...
From the article:
Your mileage may vary depending on whether your installation has 64-bit versions of all necessary drivers for the model of your specific machine. Since I have not tried any other "excluded" machine besides a 64-bit MacBook, I don't know about other models. (Unavailability or instability of certain 64-bit drivers could be a plausible reason for these models to be excluded in the first place.)

If you do render your system unbootable, you can simply run bless again to restore volume bootability as it was before. That is, you can tell bless to use the original boot.efi. Of course, to do that, you'll need to either boot from a different volume (a system install disc would be fine), or be able to access and write to the unbootable volume from another computer.


$ sudo bless --folder /Volumes/BrokenMac/System/Library/CoreServices \
--file /Volumes/BrokenMac/System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi
 
well we shall see. can't wait for wwdc! i sure hope they update the mac pros at least though. they are way overdue
 
Safari 5? Already? I agree, the change list isn't all that exciting. However... it makes Safari a better browser, so... 😀
 
aiqw9182 said:
From the article:
Your mileage may vary depending on whether your installation has 64-bit versions of all necessary drivers for the model of your specific machine. Since I have not tried any other "excluded" machine besides a 64-bit MacBook, I don't know about other models. (Unavailability or instability of certain 64-bit drivers could be a plausible reason for these models to be excluded in the first place.)

If you do render your system unbootable, you can simply run bless again to restore volume bootability as it was before. That is, you can tell bless to use the original boot.efi. Of course, to do that, you'll need to either boot from a different volume (a system install disc would be fine), or be able to access and write to the unbootable volume from another computer.


$ sudo bless --folder /Volumes/BrokenMac/System/Library/CoreServices \
--file /Volumes/BrokenMac/System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi
Click to expand...

drivers are all ok, and my system was running full 64bit until the GM build, in RC's it was still fine.
It showed some question mark on the screen instead of starting the boot sequence.
I am already back to 32 but thanks 🙂 (unfortunately it was to easy to fix to argue for a new MBP in front of my gf )
 
DARKJ3DI said:
If the Mac gets no love at WWDC then we know its on its way out.

R.I.P Macintosh. 🙁
Click to expand...
The demise of the Mac is a bit premature.

If you were an AAPL shareholder (or someone who actually followed their business news), you would realize that Mac sales contributes a very substantial portion to Apple's revenue and gross profit. You'd also be aware that Mac sales are actually growing at this time, not declining.

To discontinue the Mac product line at this time would not be beneficial to the company nor its shareholders.

The fact of the matter is that there is simply more work to be done this year on iPhone/iPad/iPod touch platform. This is still a young development environment: remember, three years ago Apple had never shipped a single smartphone, never built one mobile app.
 
Ready to give my Black Book to my sister and upgrade a Pro! Hopefully they do come out and I can still get a free iTouch with purchase.
 
BWhaler said:
I hope you're right; I love iWork. I'm not holding my breath since this is a developer conference, but here's to hoping...
Click to expand...

I was at the Nashville apple store and they are out of iWork single user packs. Only had family pack. Maybe waiting for the 2010 version... well see on Monday
 
arkmannj said:
.....Just a random thought, If I were an Apple Engineer, I might tweak my system to report version 10.7 before browsing rumor sights and the like just for the fun of it.
Click to expand...

This is easy. Prior to buying real macs I wanted to test out the OS by installing OSX86 on my PC. It was a big deal to update between service releases so I just tweaked the setting that identified the OS version so I could install software updates. I installed iwork 09 on 10.5.5 despite latest updates supposedly requiring 10.5.6 at the time.

I've been using real macs for over a year now and have scrubbed OS X from my ancient PC.

It just took me 20 seconds to find how to do it again with google.

- You need to change the systemversion.plist.
- To do so, do the following:
- Go to System/Library/CoreServices, then you will see SystemVersion.plist, copy it and paste it on your desktop.
- I suggest you also make a backup just to be sure....can't hurt.
- Then open the plist from your desktop and where the string is that has your system version--- 10.5.2 for example, change it to 10.5.6.
- The version should appear twice in the plist, so change both.
- Then save the plist and paste/replace it over the old systemversion.plist, put in your password, and check your "about this mac" to verify.

NOTE: Do this at your own risk as it could stuff things up (never caused any problems for me though). I only did it as I had installed a test system just to try out using a mac before committing my cash so didn't care if it came crashing down. I changed to real Macs when I found it ran many times faster and more stably than either XP or Vista on the same hardware despite having to be patched in many ways to be able to run on non-apple hardware (including emulating a whole lot of processor functionality - I was using it on an old single core 1.8Ghz AMD processor)

It may be safer if you can change what Safari reports without having to change what the OS thinks it is but I never tried that. Try setting it up as safari 6 and OS X 11. Even better - set up a new system in a virtual machine and use that. Then you can just use copies of the virtual machine file and try lots of different ways without any risk.

I might change it to OS X 11.0 and maybe even safari 6 (if I could work out how to change safari) just for fun and browse Gizmodo/Macrumors/InsanelyMac/Appleinsider and maybe look up Flurry just for fun.
 
koolkat said:
It may be safer if you can change what Safari reports without having to change what the OS thinks it is but I never tried that. Try setting it up as safari 6 and OS X 11. Even better - set up a new system in a virtual machine and use that. Then you can just use copies of the virtual machine file and try lots of different ways without any risk.
Click to expand...

It's called the UserAgent. And there's enough plugins around that'll let you change your UserAgent. You don't need a Mac to look like a Mac on the internet, or a Windows machine to look like you're running Internet Explorer. How else do we get past silly websites that require silly browsers.
 
My three-day wild guess:

1) New iPhone unveiled officially, now called iPhone HD thanks to its 960x540 display. Will now have the same A4 CPU found on the iPad, and available with 16, 32 or 64 GB of flash memory storage.

2) iPhone OS 4.0 to be released on the same day the iPhone HD arrives in stores in early July 2010. iPhone 3Gs users can upgrade to iPhone OS 4.0 for US$9.95.

3) iTunes gets upgraded to Version 9.2 to support iPhone HD.

4) Safari gets upgrade to 5.0 with better HTML 5.0 support and faster Javascript engine.

5) Possible release of a new Apple TV box with no more hard drive, relying on streaming from cloud-based services or hard drive from a Mac or PC connected to a home network with 802.11n Wi-Fi networking.

6) Apple officially releases the final release version of the Gianduia Flash alternative, one that is built completely from HTML 5.0 code and Javascript.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back