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Readers have reported that this story contains information that may not be accurate.List of 20 new features for Apples OS X 10.5 Leopard
ehomeupgrade.com — Rumors are floating around about significant Apple OS X updates that could possibly blow the doors off of Windows Vista in the near future. As with all rumors take it with a grain of salt.
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- BridgetDS, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17150gb HD & 2gb RAM required to run more than one operating system? That seems highly unlikely given that a) this would render all currently available systems unable to do so and b) BootCamp lets you do a 5gb partition.
- jeromeerome, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5I did not understand why that had such high requirements either. You are correct. This would eliminate most existing systems unless they upgrade their components.
- Dalhectar, on 10/12/2007, -7/+12And Apple will be very happy to sell everyone a new Mac to meet those requirements. But considering the Vista recommendations, it makes sense to me.
- mikeazorin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Wait... a basic operating system should take about 5GB, including some basic software. So two operating systems = 10GB + 5GB free space * 2 for optimal performance. Without any applications running, an OS should do about 256MB RAM tops, add another 256MB for big apps. So 20GB + 1GB RAM sounds about quite right. The virtualisation thing sounds awesome, but honestly, 150GB? For what?
- ravenmuffin, on 10/12/2007, -5/+90Those requirements were in relation to the dual-booting/virtualization of Vista and Linux, etc. etc.
But the whole article is completely bogus, nothing more than a few ideas thrown together by someone who doesn't really have a clue, much less an insider's knowledge.
My take:
1. Wrong. Leopard will likely NOT support OS 9/Classic at all, because the transition to Intel chips will be complete on all Macs shipped with Leopard. Intel chips don't run PowerPC code and writing an emulator for an extinct OS would please a total of about 3 users. Evidence the author is clueless: Classic never did support OS 8.
2. Author has seen Boot Camp, heard of virtualization and is making up specs required to support it. Hint: Parallels requires about 5 GB.
3. A third-part product DiskWarrior, that hasn't yet been optimized for a new OS X release is unlikely to be bundled with it. AppleCare (a service contract) is entirely separate from Leopard (an OS).
4. No one doubts the apps will receive a few new features. The author's guesses are very boring though: Colored Safari tabs. Yawn.
5. Dock "boing boing" sounds. Yeah right.
6. "Hooks to support an Apple PDA, but I can say no more." Author can say no more because it is wild and unlikely speculation. An Apple PDA? Souped up iPod, possibly, iPhone maybe. iSync already provides hooks for almost every modern phone and PDA anyway.
7. Metadata already is editable. It's a file format feature - EXIF in photos, etc, not an OS function.
8. "3 'Finder' windows open simultaneously." Hmm.
9. One of the few on the mark ideas. Widgets can already run anywhere with a 3rd party utility, and it would be easy for Apple to make this standard in Leopard.
10. Wrong. Terminal will stay a command line interface.
11. Unlikely. Apps will not be integrated into super apps, a la Outlook. It's not the Apple way.
12. Voice recognition won't return, because it never left. Apple calls it Speech Recognition anyway.
13. And will exceed the speed of light. YMMV.
14. Whatever.
15. Sherlock will be replaced by widgets. Okay, it more or less has been already.
16. Repairing permissions is one of the biggest myths perpetuated by clueless Mac fanboys around. It hasn't been necessary since 10.2 Jaguar.
17. Airport telling you your signal is being hijacked? Nice idea, but probably not even possible, let alone a feature of Leopard.
18. Unnecessary and doubtful: what if the user restarted BECAUSE they were having troublesome network connections.
19. Remotely possible, but "TrashBack" is very un-Apple name, and why would they go into the file recovery business if they are already bundling the 3rd party tool the author claimed they would.
20. Yeah, numerous other bug fixes is genuine insider knowledge. No one would have though of that!
Conclusion: Baseless.
Wait for the WWDC for the real Leopard feature set. - diecastbeatdown, on 10/12/2007, -16/+12"16. Repairing permissions is one of the biggest myths perpetuated by clueless Mac fanboys around. It hasn't been necessary since 10.2 Jaguar."
ya, who needs proper file permissions. especially in a unix environment. i mean, 644 and 755 are so similar they might as well be the same thing. and 0400 is basically what every file should be, right?
repair file permissions is crucial. - s0ny, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3@mikeazorin - I dont know what OS's youve been using, but the last time I checked neither OS X nor Windows XP (Let alone the RAM hog Vista) run very well with 256MB of RAM. So I think 1.5-2GB of RAM actually sounds rather reasonable.
But I agree with you on the HD requirements. But then again, On my powerbook OSX + iLife (6-8GB) + XCode (2GB) + Final Cut Studio (+/- 30GB) = 45 GB alone for Apps, then take into account my 30GB of Music and 10GB of Photos and 150GB doesnt sound all that unreasonable either for a power user. - knowall, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29This was an April Fools joke: http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=291048
- The_Decryptor, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2"repair file permissions is crucial."
Not for what it does.
Say a installer sets wrong permissions on a file and you cant read or write it, so you fix it.
Now when you perform repair file permissions, Disk Utility comes along, checks the Installer "log", sees the permissions differ, and changes them to what the Installer says, it says it has been repaired, and you think it's a good idea to keep running it.
Fact it, there is no need to run it all the time (or really at all), and problems that were caused by it have been fixed (and the only time Apple mentions running it in a trouble shooting sense is in one article, which is about the computer not booting at all, or so i read) - Bigcat1021, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2How timely:
http://daringfireball.net/2006/04/repair_permissions_voodoo - AtomB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This only applies to running more than one OS at the same time. You will still be able to boot into different Os's just not run them all at once and switch back and forth on the fly.
- mentor972, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Did anyone notice the bottom where it states... "This was an April Fools Joke!" ?????
- al28p, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Those are huge spec requirements, apple hardware will go through the roof
- MioTheGreat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Well, Apple doesn't have to support anything legacy, apparently.....so I doubt they'd care. Even so, this is a load.
- kabz, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3A built in full-screen virtualization option? You'll never need to buy anything otherthan a mac. The Parallels software works great now. A built in option will be fantastic.
The worst part of Mac OS X now is the finder. The sooner this gets overhauled the better.- drn666, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Agreed, the Finder needs work.
Still, it owns KDE/Gnome/Explorer. But still, even if it's better than anything else out there it doesn't mean it shouldn't be improved. - bieber, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Given that you can't even remember the names of the programs used to browse files in KDE and GNOME, I think it's safe to say you're not terribly knowledgable about them. Allow me to enlighten you.
Konqueror, the KDE file/web browser, is an _extremely_ effective filesystem browser (although a pretty shoddy web browser. But hey, what file browser isn't?) which incorporates all the standard features found in other operating systems, along with a great number of original features I have yet to see anywhere else. Like tabs. We've been keeping multiple locations open in the same window with web browsers for ages, why not in file browsers? Makes it an awful lot easier to drag and drop between far apart locations in the filesystem when you can have them both in tabs in the same window, instead of in seperate windows, buried somewhere on the screen.
Nautilus, the GNOME file/web browser (why does everyone have to try and combine the two??), well, it works well enough. It's nothing special, but it works just as well as Windows Explorer or Finder. - cduquette, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Konqueror is a great file browser. It does split view, which is great for drag and dropping and also has spring loaded folders, which means if you're holding a file over the folder it'll open to the next directory then when you release it goes back to the default. This is of course in Finder I believe too.
Nautilus isn't bad either, it's getting there. The new built in search using Beagle for a backend is great, it's got emblem support which surprisingly comes in handy and it doesn't create a .directory file in every directory like Konqueror does... - colinpowell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@bieber - Clearly you are not terribly familiar with the GNOME these days either. Nautilus is hardly a file manager/browser. Epiphany is the official browser for GNOME and has nothing to do with Nautilus, though most GNOME-centric distros these days just include a GTK friendly Firefox.
Sorry, I just had to correct you since you called someone else out for not knowing what was what. - drn666, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2@bieber: That's some excellent logic you have. Given that I didn't bother to mention Konq by name in my comment, I obviously haven't used it. You can safely rest assured that I'm familiar with both, and base my comments on my preference.
Why you'd be so foolish as to assume I just randomly declared 3 major GUI's to be inferior to another without having used them all is beyond me. Why not assume, correctly, that I ommitted the names of the actual file managers so as to be clear. Obviously you knew what I was talking about, but you can safely assume that people who have never used either would have though "What is Konq?"
Think before you react.
That said, to the point - if you can stand there and without crossing any body parts tell me that the fit and finish of either Konq or Gnome is anywhere near the level of Finder, than you've either never used the Finder or have a serious alcohol problem. Sure, all 3 have function - but Finder does what it does as well, and with an incredible look and grace. Only the Finder really delivers that.
Linux zealots rail against this and call it 'useless eye candy'. This is a poor mans way of saying 'better visual design'. Jealousy of something doesn't make it worse... just not your own. - jasongetsdown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1the finder has already been improved, just not by apple :) try pathfinder. http://www.cocoatech.com/
Its got tabs, bread crumbs, a configurable sidebar, suped up file info and preview panes, terminal in a drawer, "power select" (select files matching given parameters), and a novel feature called the drop stack which acts like a shelf that you can drag files into (stack style, last in first out) and then drag them out.
Take that Finder/Explorer/Nautilus/Konqueror!
- drn666, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Agreed, the Finder needs work.
- blackbelt88, on 10/12/2007, -6/+18whoa, run two OSes at the same time. That's awesome! i'm a Windows guy, but those new macs are looking pretty sexy from over here.
- s0ny, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Well if you think about it, if they are allowing you to run OS X, and 2 other operating systems in virtualization at the same time 1.5-2 gigs of RAM is about what you would need for OS X, Windows, and say Linux. The disk requirements are a little out there but I dont think it will be "150GB OR YOU CANNOT PASS", just more of a guideline for best performance...
I am excited if its true about the Safari additions and the ability to limit the damn bouncing dock icons!- stilldavid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4maybe in order to do live os switching, it caches the RAM on the disk so as not to eat it up with multiple OSs running, hence the large amounts of space needed. Just a thought...
- eridius, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8stilldavid: it's not like caching 2GB of RAM will balloon to 30GB once it's on disk.
- A-money, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3already can stop the icons from bouncing, its in the dock preferences.
- jeromeerome, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I think it is great that after you reboot your system all your finder windows, applications, and network drives resume back to the state you left them in previously. I know you don't need to reboot the mac very often but for those rare occasions when you do this will come in handy.
- thinkdifferent, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7"Mail, Address Book, iCal, iSight, and iChat will become one integrated application"
Ugh... that's one of the things that drives me crazy about Outlook. Calendar and mail apps are very different beasts & don't make sense to go in a single app. While your calendar may want to be able to communicate via email for meeting invites, the way it works now with Mail & iCal is adequate & doesn't create a bloat app like Outlook.- TimmyGUNZ, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5They pretty much already are tied together. Mail, Address Book, iCal and iChat all pull information on your contacts from the same source.
That being said, judging from what Apple has done in the past, I'm sure they will do this right and not make it a huge, bulky mess like Outlook. - netherbound, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I totally agree, one of the thinks I have always loved about OS X was that these kinds of applications were independent. But then again I will believe nothing until I see it with my own eyes.
- spectre_25gt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I totally agree here. My heart sunk a little when I read that one. I loved the way all of those apps were separate but could share information between each other. It made things very quick when you only wanted to look up an address but not send an email, or if you wanted to mail someone, but don't need your calendar going at the same time.
- TimmyGUNZ, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5They pretty much already are tied together. Mail, Address Book, iCal and iChat all pull information on your contacts from the same source.
- chewbaccapits, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2Funny, the last time any supposed leopard news came out in came in the form of a mac malware....
- geekee, on 10/12/2007, -27/+3They actually expect people to pay $130 for this "upgrade".
- mikeazorin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Did you read the feature list? You wouldn't pay $130 for that?
- spectre_25gt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Care to tell me what advances XP brought to 2000 that were greater than what's listed in that article?
Don't forget, this article only lists 20 items that are still rumors. Tiger had some 200 new features or improvements over Panther. I'd say you can expect the same with Leopard. Oh, and I'd say rewriting spotlight probably isn't a trivial task. - TimmyGUNZ, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1They made it easter to hack!
- PathDaemon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Expect people to pay $130? last I checked (now) Windows cost $300
http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=314687&pfp=cat3
Don't say that it's the "Professional" version: Apple just doesn't make a Home edition. - geekee, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4I paid $100 for XP over 3 years ago and Linux costs nothing. Why you people give Apple $130 every year for MacOS X 10.x is beyond me.
- The_Decryptor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7"I paid $100 for XP over 3 years ago and Linux costs nothing. Why you people give Apple $130 every year for MacOS X 10.x is beyond me."
Over here, the cost of Windows XP Pro (since Home sucks) is still around $600, so $199 (i paid $120) every year and a bit (now) ends up cheaper than XP, especially if your counting multiple computers, add another $600 for each copy of windows, but only a tad more than the default cost for 5 copies of OS X - charge, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1oem plz
- nikoniko, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"I paid $100 for XP over 3 years ago and Linux costs nothing. Why you people give Apple $130 every year for MacOS X 10.x is beyond me."
And what significant upgrades has Microsoft put out for XP since it was released? SP1 and SP2 were both primarily bug fix / security patch updates, with few noteworthy new features. Has Microsoft worked to make XP faster? No. Have they added significant new value or productivity to XP? No. Am I a Mac fanboy? No. I don't even own a Mac. But I can certainly see the value in Apple's OS upgrades. With Apple, bug fixes and security patches are also free downloads, but significant new features or enhancements are charged for when they've accumulated enough of them to make a worthy new product. What's wrong with that? I'd gladly pay for a new OS from Microsoft every year if they actually added anything of real value to it. - geekee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I have XP home, but you can get XP pro for under $150, and Linux is still $0
http://shop.store.yahoo.com/geminicomputersinc/miwixpprooem.html
Thanks for quoting my comment Decryptor so someone will read it since your lameass comment was modded up.
- ThankTheCheese, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3"16. When Repairing Permissions, the “We are using special permissions…” will no longer be displayed. Finally!"
probably most excited by that one to be honest. lol- netherbound, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11The 10.4.6 update already fixed that one ;)
- conto1987, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7I don't think it matters whether or not it will blow the socks off of vista, Vista is going to bet the next operating system for 95% percent of people in the world and unless apple wants to change this the same 5% of people are going to buy there computers or software. These OSX upgrades just aren't significant enough, and as a mac owners im fine with that
- TimmyGUNZ, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Agreed. I don't think we'll see anything completely Visa-killing until at least 10.6 or 10.7, or even when they go to OS XI.
Based on the past experiences with Microsoft, if they try and rush out an OS upgrade from Vista to compete with huge Apple advances, it will be a disaster. (See Windows ME).
I think Apple definitely is in good shape to increase their market-share, but it will be a few more years before they can even hope to enter double digits. Also a Mac user, I'm fine with that. - mbiesz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6You two seem to be agreeing about different things. The original poster said that Vista will become the dominant OS in 95% of computer systems because Microsoft essentially has control over 95% of all computers. No matter how great Apple's OS is, it will not impact market share very much unless Apple adjusts their marketing and strategies.
- TimmyGUNZ, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Agreed. I don't think we'll see anything completely Visa-killing until at least 10.6 or 10.7, or even when they go to OS XI.
- jrkagan, on 10/12/2007, -7/+13apple-related rumors + unknown website + no source = no digg
- Space_Balls, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5yes, exactly. People are giving way to much credibility to this "source"
Also, I highly doubt that Apple would integrate Mail, iCal, Address book etc. into one application. their interfaces are very clean as is and not bloated ala Outlook/Entourage. - quill, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2This is such an obvious fake it makes my head spin.
- Space_Balls, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5yes, exactly. People are giving way to much credibility to this "source"
- bambam43410, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Website died. can someone post the finer points of the article?
- ghelton, on 10/12/2007, -2/+111. Leopard supports OS 9.x, as is done with Tiger, but OS 8 and earlier will not be officially supported. Legacy apps may still work, but Apple just won’t support them.
2. During the Leopard install, you are given the option to create specific partitioning to accommodate M$ Vista and Linux. Reformatting your HD is not required. Depending on your processor and RAM, all OS’s can run simultaneously & independently. A (minimum) 150 GB HD is required (250 GB is recommended), and 2 GB RAM (minimum) should you wish to run more than one OS. Dual processors are required for optimum performance, though this may change in 10.5.1 or 10.5.2.
3. DiskWarrior (in lieu of TechTool) will be bundled with 10.5 if one chooses Apple Care or extends their current Apple Care contract. I don’t know the pricing or specific details, though Apple Care for older machines will increase significantly with the machine’s age. Machines over 6 years old (from date of mfgr.) are not eligible.
4. Safari will include editable Helpers. Safari Tabs can be assigned colors. Safari will be about 37% faster (YMMV). The default for Safari bookmarks will now be alphabetical by folder. Safari will include configurable parental controls (for those who want configured parents). Safari will now import Firefox and Camino bookmarks. Also, there are 12 new Safari “skins”.
5. The Dock will be much different. One new feature is that as icons are added, they will automatically migrate/expand around the screen as needed (or, you can reduce the size of the icons as presently done). Also, multiple docks are an option as is the amount of “bounce” desired in those dock apps launching or needing your attention. There is an accompanying bounce sound, a boing-boing sort of thing.
6. Hooks are built-in to support an Apple PDA, but I can say no more.
7. All Metadata will be editable.
8. You can have 3 ‘Finder’ windows open simultaneously, much like having 3 displays, all running different applications or OS’s. If networked, any 3 computers can be displayed. Depending on the function/application, you can even Drag & Drop between displays. Password or Admin. privileges are required. (see #2 above).
9. Widgets can run on any or all of your open windows, similar to the way Stickies can be placed anywhere.
10. Terminal has balloons that will appear with alerts/warning notes should you wish to do something that you will (later) wish you hadn’t.
11. Mail, Address Book, iCal, iSight, and iChat will become one integrated application, much like Entourage (but better). Included is a customizable Auto Responder and voice activated dialing via numbers or Address Book names. You will be able to automatically send email & initiate iSight meetings, etc. that are linked/pegged to specific calendar events. This feature is called AutoPilot (see #6 above).
12. Voice recognition/security has returned as an option (see #6 above). Note: Use with caution. I am still not certain this will make the final release (it’s still a bit buggy); perhaps delayed until 10.5.1.
13. An across the board speed increase of 35 - 40%. YMMV.
14. Font, Printer, and User Preference (.plist) repair routines are built-in and are schedulable.
15. Sherlock has been eliminated (use Widgets instead).
16. When Repairing Permissions, the “We are using special permissions…” will no longer be displayed. Finally!
17. Airport (Extreme only) will notify you via the airport icon flashing in the menu bar if your signal is being hijacked or used by anyone other than you authorized.
18. Startups, Restarts, & User Switching will be exactly as the User left the machine; open apps, window positions, network connections, etc. will all be reestablished.
19. Bundled with Leopard is a small app called “TrashBack”, a program to recover deleted files. Of course, the sooner one uses it after trashing the better.
20. Numerous (other) bug fixes, including a totally rewritten Spotlight.
Leopard will be previewed in June at the WWDC and released in early November.
- ghelton, on 10/12/2007, -2/+111. Leopard supports OS 9.x, as is done with Tiger, but OS 8 and earlier will not be officially supported. Legacy apps may still work, but Apple just won’t support them.
- edogg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'm a little skeptical of this "feature list". I guess one glaring thing that made me think twice is that the author doesn't even know when WWDC is. He says June, but Apple says Aug 7 - 11.
- tommythetomcat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Apple rumors always seem to be that they are better at something than someone else.
Does Apple ever drop the ball?- ejectMedia, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1nope
- Qdub, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31. Leopard supports OS 9.x, as is done with Tiger, but OS 8 and earlier will not be officially supported. Legacy apps may still work, but Apple just wont support them.
OS 9 has been the only supported OS since 2000 for classic
Oh, and WWDC is in AUGUST- spectre_25gt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The article mentioned something about applications that were built for OS 8. I don't know anything about Mac classic, but it seems like they're talking about application support rather than OS support. I guess that wouldn't make a whole lot of sense, though, because you're still running OS 9 to run the apps, right?
- DevilsRejection, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2REQ: Coral cache or mirror
- white, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Does this article say that Apple is going to make a PDA? You know how he mentions hooks to a PDA....
- jasongetsdown, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I'd say iSync counts as "hooks." How long has that been out??
- pgib, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12Disclosure Agreement (NDA) with Apple precludes me from revealing proprietary detail, but because most, if not all, of this is posted elsewhere and is commonly available, I have no problems with confirming the following. Still, please don’t quote me.
1. Leopard supports OS 9.x, as is done with Tiger, but OS 8 and earlier will not be officially supported. Legacy apps may still work, but Apple just won’t support them.
2. During the Leopard install, you are given the option to create specific partitioning to accommodate M$ Vista and Linux. Reformatting your HD is not required. Depending on your processor and RAM, all OS’s can run simultaneously & independently. A (minimum) 150 GB HD is required (250 GB is recommended), and 2 GB RAM (minimum) should you wish to run more than one OS. Dual processors are required for optimum performance, though this may change in 10.5.1 or 10.5.2.
3. DiskWarrior (in lieu of TechTool) will be bundled with 10.5 if one chooses Apple Care or extends their current Apple Care contract. I don’t know the pricing or specific details, though Apple Care for older machines will increase significantly with the machine’s age. Machines over 6 years old (from date of mfgr.) are not eligible.
4. Safari will include editable Helpers. Safari Tabs can be assigned colors. Safari will be about 37% faster (YMMV). The default for Safari bookmarks will now be alphabetical by folder. Safari will include configurable parental controls (for those who want configured parents). Safari will now import Firefox and Camino bookmarks. Also, there are 12 new Safari “skins”.
5. The Dock will be much different. One new feature is that as icons are added, they will automatically migrate/expand around the screen as needed (or, you can reduce the size of the icons as presently done). Also, multiple docks are an option as is the amount of “bounce” desired in those dock apps launching or needing your attention. There is an accompanying bounce sound, a boing-boing sort of thing.
6. Hooks are built-in to support an Apple PDA, but I can say no more.
7. All Metadata will be editable.
8. You can have 3 ‘Finder’ windows open simultaneously, much like having 3 displays, all running different applications or OS’s. If networked, any 3 computers can be displayed. Depending on the function/application, you can even Drag & Drop between displays. Password or Admin. privileges are required. (see #2 above).
9. Widgets can run on any or all of your open windows, similar to the way Stickies can be placed anywhere.
10. Terminal has balloons that will appear with alerts/warning notes should you wish to do something that you will (later) wish you hadn’t.
11. Mail, Address Book, iCal, iSight, and iChat will become one integrated application, much like Entourage (but better). Included is a customizable Auto Responder and voice activated dialing via numbers or Address Book names. You will be able to automatically send email & initiate iSight meetings, etc. that are linked/pegged to specific calendar events. This feature is called AutoPilot (see #6 above).
12. Voice recognition/security has returned as an option (see #6 above). Note: Use with caution. I am still not certain this will make the final release (it’s still a bit buggy); perhaps delayed until 10.5.1.
13. An across the board speed increase of 35 - 40%. YMMV.
14. Font, Printer, and User Preference (.plist) repair routines are built-in and are schedulable.
15. Sherlock has been eliminated (use Widgets instead).
16. When Repairing Permissions, the “We are using special permissions…” will no longer be displayed. Finally!
17. Airport (Extreme only) will notify you via the airport icon flashing in the menu bar if your signal is being hijacked or used by anyone other than you authorized.
18. Startups, Restarts, & User Switching will be exactly as the User left the machine; open apps, window positions, network connections, etc. will all be reestablished.
19. Bundled with Leopard is a small app called “TrashBack”, a program to recover deleted files. Of course, the sooner one uses it after trashing the better.
20. Numerous (other) bug fixes, including a totally rewritten Spotlight.
Leopard will be previewed in June at the WWDC and released in early November.- quill, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Obviously fake. Anyone who can't spot this immediately needs to have the Apple-news part of their brain checked...
// Really looking forward to 10.5 - That's when I get my MBP to compliment my G5 PowerMac. - Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Sherlock has been eliminated? Curse you, Professor Moriarty!
- ciaocibai, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Since you seem to know about this, can you please explain the large amount of ram required, and the ridiculous amount of hard drive space? It seems you could only get this running on the imacs currently anyway, and i'm going to assume the powermacs when they come out too. Is Apple planning a whole new line of hardware to support this? I don't really see that happening.
- diggmeplease, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Oh mirror oh mirror where have you gone...
- The_Decryptor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"Is Apple planning a whole new line of hardware to support this?"
I don't know when the last time a company introduced a whole new line of hardware to tie into a joke by a 3rd party, but who knows?, Apple is a innovative company and could start a trend. :p
- quill, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Obviously fake. Anyone who can't spot this immediately needs to have the Apple-news part of their brain checked...
- dpmorri, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1i couldnt read the site because its down - but juding from earlier comments I'm sure its fake - there is no way that Apple's next OS would require 150GB HD and 2GB RAM - that would mean that the top of the line (MAXXED OUT) MacBook Pro would barely be able to run it
Apple works the other way - my 4 yr old 667GHz, 30GB HD, 512 MG RAM system runs Tiger great, better then it ran panther...Apple wouldnt make such a sudden minimum jump- hayden.evans, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1That would totally blow, I just got the top of the line macbook. I doubt it will be that demanding. Oh well even if it is, I wouldn't mind getting another mac ;)
- webpoet73, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2150GB, no current Mini even has that as an option. I just don't buy it since that leaves almost all new Mini owners in the dark.
- sa9e, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2Windows is scalable, and runs on a practically infinite number of configurations of systems which may be composed of hundreds of different manufacturer's components. Apple costs more money, and has less 1 percent of the volume of native software that Windows has.
Apple will never win. Get over it you left coast rich kids. - gert2, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0Anyone have a mirror?
- XxUNDEROATHxX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3theres about 5 different sources in here...And if those aret good enough, like 5 people have posted the text in here, and if that isnt good enough, you should get the Cacheout plugin for Firefox...Uses google cache automatically...
- deadbaby, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Just make some ***** up. That's all this article is.
OSX 10.5 will include a golden ticket that will allow you to take a magical tour of the Apple computer factory.
OSX 10.5 will make your computer 18 times faster.
OSX 10.5 will end the war in Iraq and bring peace to our troubled nation
OSX 10.5 will support the ability to travel through time but ONLY if you have 4GB of ram.
- knowall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15THIS WAS AN APRIL FOOLS JOKE posted to a forum
http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=291048- GregMote, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Not a very good one, most of the "features" are just plain boring.
- xaxxon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+213. An across the board speed increase of 35 - 40%. YMMV.
Why is this number 13? A 35-40% speed increase across the board? I'll take an ocean's worth of salt with that, but if it's true it deserves to be numbers 1, 2, and 3. - pockyrevolution, on 10/12/2007, -12/+4>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> - Macintosh, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10This was originally posted on Aprils 1st, alas being false.
Please report as inaccurate. - tulem234, on 10/12/2007, -16/+0Hello,We have all brands and models of mobile phones Xbox 360..$200,Ipods,Mp3,Sony PSP...$160,PS3...$170 and more for sell nokia 8800 $170,Nokia N91 $190,Nokia N90 $180,Nextel i930 $130,Motorola V3 $130,Sony Ericson W800i $160,Nokia E70 $140,Nokia 6111 $170 and many more in stock now at a cheaper price.All mobile phones are unlocked brand new and it comes in it's original box direct from the factory with 18mounth worldwild warrantee and all its accessories complate.we also give discount and all price can be negociable if buying in bulk.We hope to hear from you soon with your order informations and your private phone numnbers for easy communication.Thanks and Godbless.
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Tell:2348052346155 - firemillen2, on 10/12/2007, -18/+2WHY AREN'T THE FANBOYS OUT IN FORCE PUTTING A BIG RED STOP SIGN ON THIS ARTICLE?
hhmmm, i guess only a bogus apple article that's NEGATIVE will get that warning tag. This is clearly a bogus article, but since it's positive, the fanboys sit quietly....stroking themselves.- ghelton, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4dude, shut up
nobody's noticed yet, calm down, take your ritalin and go back to crying about the lions - thespace, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1firemillen2 probably posted it. happy now? we marked it
- firemillen2, on 10/12/2007, -14/+1Oh NO! FANBOYS OUT IN FORCE, POSTING NEGATIVE DIGGS ON MY COMMENT.
hmm, I comment that this fake article is bogus and should be marked as so...but FANBOYS want to shut me up.
WHO'S WORSE AT LYING TO THE PUBLIC? APPLE FANBOYS OR REPUBLICANS? - compwizz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3There, I tagged it as inaccurate for you. I am giving your last comment a negative digg though, now your just being an ass.
- crackintosh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2So why the F didnt you report it firemillen2?
- hayden.evans, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@ firemillen2
Who doesn't want you to shut up?
- ghelton, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4dude, shut up
- cal0001, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4yea it's fake
- Escamillo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7This was an April Fool's joke:
http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=291048 - gxcdesign, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Even with my 2 GB or DDR on my iMac G5, the computer still allocates an additional 4.68 GB....thus using nearly 7 GB of RAM
http://gxcdesign.com/neat/ram.jpg- pockyrevolution, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Hello, welcome to the world of Virtual memory. You computer only has 2GB of ram. Goodbye
- jk_baller23, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What if the joke becomes reality???
Can't wait to see Leopard in Aug.- spectre_25gt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm with you. I never go into these types of stories expecting that everything is going to be accurate (or even close), but it's fun to think about things like this. It brings different ideas to mind.
Some people read fictional novels. I read fictional Apple news reports :)
- spectre_25gt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm with you. I never go into these types of stories expecting that everything is going to be accurate (or even close), but it's fun to think about things like this. It brings different ideas to mind.
- gxcdesign, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1What are you trying to state by saying that...other than not being Captain Obvious? Yes I can clearly see the VM storage...seriously I don't know what you're trying to state
- nathan8225, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1It took a loooooooooong time to load, but it was definitely worth it!!! I can't wait till June!
MS Vista has a lot to answer for if half of this is true. - quoigonfishin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2#21. Leopard will also include a firmware update for the iSight. This will give you the option to turn your iSight camera into a fat burning laser (see http://digg.com/science/Laser_used_to_melt_fat_through_skin) which will reconfigure your face to make you look just like Steve Jobs.
Black mock turtleneck and Levis not included. - imjustabill, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Should read "list of 20 POSSIBLE features for Apple's OSX"
Spelling and grammar are your friend - funkytaco, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Holy hell. These "possible" features sound awesome. include an iWoman slot, and I'll never leave the house.
- scratt, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1It's an April Fools joke....
We spotted this at AppleNova a long way back.. - JiveTurkeyPunk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Hey, this is an April Fools joke, the new operating system is not Leopard, it's Panthro. Thundercats Hooooo!
- quoigonfishin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0LOL!
- roundy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think it's funny how some people just read parts of the article and then claim it's false. I'm not making any judgement about the accuracy of the article, but I'll go through the points 1 by 1 just to point out a few things.
1. Leopard is not just for Intel based Macs. There are still many PowerPC based Macs around. So, it's a good sign that Classic is still supported. This will drive adoption of Leopard by those still needing Classic. Still, listing this as a feature is strange.
2. The key phrase here is "should you wish to run more than one OS." And I take this to mean, should you wish to run more than one OS SIMULTANEOUSLY in separate Windows. I can see where a larger hard drive is needed. OS X and Windows all use invisible files (that can get quite large). VM, Cache, etc. Apple is probably just being conservative on what they require for running more than 1 OS. I suppose you can get by with less if you only run 2 OS's simultaneously.
3. Diskwarrior replacing TechTool - A really good thing. TechTool has so many problems. If Apple is helping the Alsoft guys get DiskWarrior updated for Leopard, it's a win for all of us.
4. Skinnable Safari. Not a big deal, but could be fun.
5. Multiple docks-cool. No need for 3rd party stuff now. Migrate/Expand around the screen? Can't really visualize that. Configurable bouncing! That's nice. That's one complaint some other people have had about dock icons. When they need attention (for whatever reason), they can bounce forever. Kind of annoying after a while. A good example of this is Stuffit Expander 10. Not too crazy about the rumored boing-boing sound.
6. Apple PDA - Return of Newton? iPhone? Apple buying Palm. I can see why no more can be said of this.
7. Currently, metadata is not easily editable. By metadata, I'm not just talking about EXIF information in JPEGs. Here I'm thinking about all the tag information used by spotlight to classify files. jpgs, gifs, RAW, .doc, .mp4, .mov, etc. It's be nice to be able to have finer control of how things get indexed.
8. Here I'm reading something different. I'm not thinking 3 Finder windows (we do that now, obviously). I'm thinking the author means 3 completely different desktops. Kind of like Virtual Monitors. They have this in Unix. How you can setup each Virtual Monitor exactly the way you want (window positions, icons, etc.) and switch between them with keystrokes. I visualize 3 scaled to fit windows on the desktop (think multi-person iChat) each with a complete "desktop" inside. One can be OS X, one can be Win XP and the other Linux. And you can switch between the 3 with a keystroke.
9. Again - no more 3rd party app to do this.
10. Command-line interface retained. Just some warning balloons if you are about to sudo -rm system are something like that.
11. I don't know if I like this one. In some ways I think it's great, especially merging Address Book and iCal. Not sure if it's so wise to merge iChat and Mail together. But I can see where it would be convenient to have them all in one app. I usually leave iChat and Mail running all the time, but not iCal or Address Book. The author also mentions some integration here with the Apple PDA, which would be cool.
12. Voice Recognition for security is gone. I think it was in OS 9 last, where you can say your name or a phrase to login.
13. Hopefully. Probably only on the Intel Macs though. Perhaps they are testing on prototype Intel PowerMacs?
14. Good. Again, goodbye (hopefully) to 3rd party printer repair utilities.
15. Sherlock is still installed by the system as part of the install. No one uses it, but it's there. I'm guessing it won't be installed anymore.
16. This was repaired by Apple in the 10.4.6. Probably the author just wrote the article before 10.4.6 was released.
17. I don't think this is impossible to do. Especially if Apple includes some sort of firmware updated for the Airport basestations. You can probably just list your authorized MAC addresses in the Airport Basestation. Then if the Airport sees an-unauthorized MAC connecting, it'll warn you.
18. Cool. Very handy. Hopefully they'll have some keyboard command where this can be turned off on Reboot. I'd hate to have 1 app put my Mac into a crash/reboot loop because it's being reloaded at startup.
19. About time. Again, no more Drive Genius or TechTool for this. This should have been in OS X a long time ago.
20. Don't use Spotlight much now. Hopefully, the rewrite will increase speed an give the user more control over spotlight.
As you can tell, I don't think any or all of these Leopard rumors are far-fetched at all. The ones that are far-fetched, to me, are the ones involving the Apple PDA and the multi-simultaneous OS stuff. I don't know if Jobs is ready to introduce an Apple PDA. Also, multi-window OS means virtualization. Parallels just introduced a beta of this stuff. Hopefully, Apple can do it better. This would be the holy grail for switchers. Run Windows programs in a window under OS X.
Just my thoughts.
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