Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 4th Jun 2008 19:04 UTC
Mac OS X 10.5, Leopard, may only be six months old, but rumours are already abound as to the next update to Apple's operating system. According to several sources, it's going to be called Snow Leopard, it won't contain any major new features, and is planned to go gold master December 2008, available a month later. The big rumour: it's going to be available for 64bit Intel machines only.
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Mac OS X major releases always have significant new features. That's what differentiates them from the minor releases, which tend to include speed, stability and security updates or the odd minor features.
Particularly the 64bit Intel rumour. Intel only maybe, but the last 32bit only Intels were sold until late 2006, around WWDC. That's less than 2 years ago. I know Apple like pushing new stuff but I doubt they'd deprecate hardware that new.
I can't see anyone paying $100 for updates without any new features.