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Posted on 06/26/2006 5:28:47 PM PDT by Swordmaker
A team of Apple executives will demo the Mac OS X 10.5--which will support both PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs--at a keynote on opening day.
Apple Computer Inc. on Monday made it official: It will preview the next Mac OS X operating system, code named "Leopard," at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in August.
Although long-expected by Apple followers and promised by chief executive Steve Jobs in 2005, the announcement was the first formal acknowledgement by the Cupertino, Calif.-based computer and consumer electronics maker that it would actually have something to show at WWDC.
A team made up of Jobs; head of marketing Philip Schiller; the vice president of software engineering, Bertrand Serlet; and the vice president of platform experience, Scott Forstall will demo Mac OS X 10.5 at a keynote on WWDC's opening day, August 7.
Apple also said that it would include multiple conference tracks during the five-day San Francisco event which will go into more detail on Leopard.
At last year's WWDC, Jobs said Apple would release Leopard by the end of 2006. The new operating system will be the first to support both PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs from the get-go.
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Thanks to SunkenCiv for the heads up...
Any word how much this will cost?
To attend the WWDC is $1595 per person. OS X.5 Leopard will probably cost about $129.
$ 129.00 huh, looks like I will get the family pack that worked well for Tiger.
so you have to buy this OS or its a free update? :D
I've read that 10.5 will improve performance on the Intel machines substantially.
C'mon, ET, you've been trolling the Apple threads long enough to know that the new animal name means you pay for it. Well, those of us who actually like it and use it pay for it. You are under no compulsion to use it, like it, or pay for it.
As I, and several others, have explained to you sveral times before, in OS X .x increments are major upgrades, easily the equivalent of moving from Windows 95 to 98 to XP... and just like their Windows' counterparts are paid upgrades. Service pack upgrades are the OS X .x.y increments and are free.
This is an upgrade of OS X from OS X.4.6 or OS X.4.7 to OS X.5
You know, Windows users get a pretty raw deal here.
To get all the features of Windows Vista, you have to buy Vista Ultimate and I'm sure that will cost north of US$300. If you remember, Windows XP Professional is a $300 product, and they appear to be preparing Ultimate, the only way to get both "home" and "business" features, as an even more expensive product.
Full-featured MacOS X for $129 looks pretty good in that context.
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how many versions of OSX have you bought in the last 3-4 years?
I don't even remember the exact number, but I feel I have gotten value from them comparable to the difference between 200 and XP, and XP and Vista. In short, they are comparable to upgrades Microsoft has also charged for.
And there's one nice bonus: None of those upgrades have required me to change hardware. That is, I can still run them on fairly old (say five or less year old) computers. In fact, over the years I've owned my computers, I've noticed that performance has actually improved on the older computers! XP struggled to run at all on machines that ran 2000 just fine.
And based on the system requirements and early reports, Vista will continue this pattern. In fact, there are many machines being sold today that will not run the standard edition of Vista at all, and cannot even be upgraded to run it (i.e. machines with motherboard-based graphics). They would run Vista Basic, of course, but few of the ballyhooed features are included in Vista Basic. To buy a machine today on which you can get the full Vista experience, you're going to plunk down $1,000 plus. The Mac Mini will be capable of running Leopard for $599.
So overall, I would say that Apple's treatment of their customers in terms of upgrades is better than Microsoft's. Apple's never going to be the cheap option, but it's looking awfully good compared to its primary rival.
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How "Def" is this Leopard?
Big deal no aero.
hell i could run Vista basic on my OLD T21 IBM Thinkpad..
Athlon XP 2100+, 1GB RAM, 2X 100GB HDD's, ATI Radeon AIW 128MB
Athlon 1.3GHZ , 768MB RAM, 40GB + 60GB HDD, 32MB Geforce 2.
You are correct but my point stands.
The much-balloyhooed features like the Aero interface don't work on Basic. I was referring to a configuration that would support the normal (above Basic) Windows Vista editions, which use Aero and require 1GB RAM + an advanced video card with 128mb of RAM.
I beleive I even told you in my last message that I was referring to computers that could accomodate Aero and explicitly removed Basic from consideration.
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personally i dont care about eye candy, when i get Vista it will be for security and support for more memory, XP only supports 4GB i believe.
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