Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 4th Apr 2006 20:33 UTC
Someone who claims to have an NDA with Apple, has revealed the new features MacOS 10.5, Leopard, will have. He claims all these details are already available on other websites, hence he can list them without having to worry. The most interesting bit: Leopard will ask during install if you want to install Vista or Linux on a seperate partition so you can run them simultaneously (a heavy Mac is required). Please note that the authenticity of these words is debatable at best. My take: There have been numerous rumours that Apple is going to add virtualization support to Leopard, so that might be true. And I expect Microsoft to support this. Why? Because of this, and because a Windows install equals money to MS. Whether on a Mac or not.
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2005-07-06
Dual or triple booting other systems is not totally plausible to me at all. I doubt whether Apple would ever want a user to contaminate their Mac with Windows or Linux. It sounds like a horrendous support burden waiting to go wrong as well.
Why bother? They can always run Linux or Windows in a virtual machine anyway. Intel hardware will have much more full support for virtualisation through VT, so the virtualisation rumours sound OK to me. The option in the installer for Linux or Windows sounds like BS given that people could easily do that without shafting their system.
Thom's rumours of virtualisation seem about the most believable to me, and there's nothing about virtualisation in this guy's post!
Hooks are built-in to support an Apple PDA, but I can say no more.
Mmmmmm. All nice and tantalisingly vague, teasing us with one of those super secret, behind-closed-doors devices that get rumours flying like a swarm of locusts. Mention that it's by Apple, home of the iPod, and you can feel that hype rising. And then people get Origami, or it turns out to be a total non-event like Apple's mobile phone :-).
I think you only need to read the comments as well to judge that this wiffs a bit.
Edited 2006-04-04 21:23