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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2005-06-29
Don't be so smug, Kroc.
A LOT of Mac users battle with OS updates just as much as Windows users do - in fact, the recent 10.5.3 update caused quite some problems for people. The major upgrades cause enough problems too. They're all just less visible because, well, 90% or 5%, it's a major difference. I'd love to see the Mac OS do as well as Windows when it comes to upgrades on all those different configurations out there. The Mac OS will curl up in foetal position and cry in the corner at the mere thought of it.
I'm a Mac user most of the time, but I don't want to share in your smugness.
And yes, this news DOES piss Mac users off- like me. I have a 2004 PowerBook that won't be able to run this new operating system. I won't benefit from all the optimisations, even though my machine is only 4 years old.
The funny thing? My 2001 x86 desktop runs Vista blazing fast, thanks to a 60 USD memory upgrade. It uses a processor and motherboard from 2001 (Athlon XP 1600+ at 1400Mhz, 1.2GB of mem). If Apple axes PPC and early Intel Mac support with this new release, Apple is going to be a million times worse than Microsoft and Vista.
Assuming this rumour is true, of course.
Edited 2008-06-04 20:01 UTC