Steve Jobs announced Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard” during his World Wide Developers Conference keynote presentation yesterday.
Jobs made the announcement early in his presentation, before breaking the news that Apple would switch from IBM and Freescale PowerPC to Intel x86 processors.
According to Jobs, Leopard is due late 2006 / early 2007. This would put Leopard on track to debut right around Microsoft’s currently-stated, oft-slippng, stripped-down Longhorn release date. Yum, steak!
The release of Leopard in late 2006 / early 2007 would come during Apple’s transition to Intel processors in their Mac lines, scheduled to be completed by the end of 2007.
[UPDATE, 11:57am EDT: Clarified Leopard release timeframe.]
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Didn´t it used to be that when the version went up by an entire number (say OS 7 to OS 8) one paid for the new version, but when it went from 7.1 to 7.2 this was free upgrade.
Now Apple is sucking $100 plus every year for a .1 improvement in the software.
If it was Microsoft doing it – everyone would be screaming MS sucks.
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Question: What will be the price of a:
Intel powered 3.6 Ghz Dell?
Intel powered 3.6 Ghz Apple?
The only difference will be the outside design and the OS. How much of a markup will Apple add…and will people pay it?
And at least with MS OS one can go AMD for the processor – which are faster than Intel (at the moment).
I am a retard!
I see Dell adding AMD processors to their line-up in the future.
Then they can play the get the processor Apple can´t use…
Seriously – anybody actively thinking of buying a Mac in the next year???
Why??? Why not wait?
“I was hoping Steve would give some more details about this release, as is customary at these meccas, but it seems like he got distracted by x86. I was also expecting an announcement for the release of iTunes 4.9 after he went on about podcasting. Oh well, I will have to wait.”
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Seeing how Tiger was released in April and WWDC 05 is all about Tiger, I think it wouldn’t be prudent to talk about Leopard.
As far as being “distracted” about x86. I wouldn’t call it distracted as much as I would call it getting your developer base on board for a MAJOR transition for the Mac platform.
The announcement of iTunes 4.9’s release was stated at the D:All Things Digital conference. At the conference, Steve said it would ship within 60 days. That would bring us to July 22 (at the latest).
Answer to Larry B- I’ll buy a Mac in the next year if I need one (i.e mine or my wife’s die of old age). Then we’ll use the new one for a long time until -it- dies of old age.
We buy Macs because they’re useful and we like them, not because it’s some mythical “right time to buy”.
And we don’t worry about resale value because we always use them as long as they work.
WILL LEOPARD RUN ON POWERPC CHIPS – I DON’T THINK SO!
i don’t want power pc or intel chips. i want my mac to run on hamsters. fast, geneticaly modified hampsters using leopard stem cells. so there!!
Let me put one thing straight –
I HOPE that when Apple release an Intel Mac that it hasn’t got that crappy sticker stuck on it saying – ‘intel inside’.
I don’t mind Apple using intel processors – but please – those stickers look crap!
Have you ever tried getting one off a pc without leaving all sorts of glue on the machine??
THAT STICKER WILL DEVALUE THE MAC BUYING EXPERIENCE!!
So I beg Apple – DO NOT LET INTEL HAVE THOSE BLOODY STICKERS ON YOUR HARDWARE!!!
Petey: yes it will – simply because of timing.
PPC to Intel Hw transition finishes in late 2007
Leopard due out first half, possibly even first quarter, of 2007.
So according to you, Apple is going to ship its high-end systems for six months without the latest revision of OS X.
Do you have any idea how illogical that sounds…
I don’t recall Steve calling the next release of the OS 10.5 – He just call it “Leopard”. With the transistion to Intel – could this mean Mac OS 11.0 – then again why carry on with the cat moniker?
Is this serious? A new version of the operating system every year?
Dear God.. you’re not actually complaining.. or are you just bitter because you can’t handle basic Math.
1.5 years has been the norm for Apple. That’s obvious.
Tiger came out in April of 2005…
Leopard will come out Winter 2006/Spring 2007
This is the norm..
(Although they DID say they were slowing OS releases.. I guess the LH play was just too tempting. They fucked up winHEC with Tiger.. and they’ll fuck the launch with Leopard. For once I actually think some advertising might be fun …)
I can’t believe that there are still retards like “El Predicto” who believe that the version number has some special meaning. Steve Jobs should announce that Leopard will be 10.6! These idiots would go bats##t! Two numbers! Holy crap!
Bill Gates would probably commit suicide when details of Leopard is released. Longhorn isn’t as good as any OS ever released by Apple, EVEN OS 1!!!
I wonder why Apple arn’t gonna use the new Cell technology instead of Intel. I guess nobody realy knows how good/bad/practical these Cell chips are yet.