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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Member since:2005-11-10
And I've got a Mac Mini that wouldn't be able to run an intel-only OS; but that doesn't make it any less of an already capable machine with an excellent OS. Tiger is still awesome, and Leopard more so - so I don't see the massive worry about some machines not getting the latest (with no new features) OS.
That is, if any of this is true 
I'm hard pushed to imagine what new features they could introduce until there's some more shift in the hardware at least another year or two away. This year might be the right year to fit in a maintenance release.
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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.
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.
I am a long term Windows user and a not so long term Mac OS X user. While I certainly agree that there are problems with Mac OS X updates (and more than previous verions it seems?) I have still found updating less errorprone than in Windows. I think updates to Mac OS X are more incremental than they are in Windows, and this makes them less suspectible to problems.
My personal experience is that there is a huge difference from WinXP SP2 to Vista, whereas the jump from Tiger to Leopard was smaller (despite the much hyped 300+ new features).
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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