“In recent weeks, the core feature set and low-level changes to the Mac OS X codebase have been firmed up in preparation for focused efforts to produce a ‘WWDC Preview’ release in early August to be shared with developers in attendance of Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference (Aug. 7-11),” Mac OS Rumors reports. “A lot of ambitious ideas — like the use of a BitTorrent bandwidth-sharing reward system to alleviate some of Apple’s massive use of Internet bandwidth for the iTunes Store, Software Updates, et cetera — that didn’t make the cut in previous versions are being considered very seriously as part of the very ambitious Leopard feature set.”
“Apple is soon to introduce its ‘Mac Pro’ line, which will sport Intel’s ‘Conroe’ desktop Core 2 Extreme processors with up to two four-core processors for a total of eight CPUs. Making good use of all those resources and avoiding current problems where one core may run at a significantly higher temperature than all the others, causing potential crashes and other problems down the line….is a huge challenge. Leopard is being focused like a laser beam on that task and the results will be very impressive,” MOSR reports. “Leopard will introdce a lot more moving, animated, flowing and interactive ‘living interface elements’ to the Mac experience… For example, switching between applications will now give a much more obvious and graphically rich interface cue so that even novice Switchers will recognize what is occuring without having to look at the Dock, Menubar, et cetera for feedback. It will be very obvious as the interface moves and flows.”
“Simultaneous (e.g. not dual-boot) operating system virtualization technology derived from quiet efforts in this area at Apple over the past five years will allow Leopard owners to run OS X, Windows, Linux, Solaris and other operating systems simultaneously with near-native performance and no need for third party software,” MOSR reports.
Much more in the full article, including a bit about Apple’s forthcoming ‘Mac Pro’ line decked out with with Intel ‘Conroe’ Core 2 Extreme processors with dual four-core processors for a total of eight CPUs,here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Cathy” for the heads up.]
awesome. so is apple going to use bit-torrent or come up with it’s own version?
Woweeeeee!
And so begins the months-long droolfest. Oh, how it whets the appetite.
Mac OS Rumors–notoriously–just makes stuff up. The article is a combination of semi-informed guesswork and outright ridiculousness, and it’s a waste of time to page through it.
The site’s owner just checks in once every few months with a carefully hedged, sententious, albeit (by the standards of marginal rumor sites) beautifully written set of predictions in order to squeeze a little more revenue out of his (pretty marginal) advertisers.
But since he seems to have no actual informants at Apple, any predictions that are either (a) unique to Mac OS Rumors or (b) at all interesting invariably fail to come true.
Just so you know.
There new slogan should be:
Apple. Feel the Love.
Oh great, all those “animations” when doing routine windowing tasks is one of my biggest pet peeves with Windows Vista. I certainly hope Apple doesn’t fall back into the “over-the-top” eye candy trap with Leopard. Mac OS X should be more elegant, not more “flashy” (i. e., crass and gaudy).
has no water in it.
All signs point to “ad-pushing fiction.”
Things that are not unique to this story, and are almost certainly true, if unexciting:
1. WWDC will feature a Leopard preview and news of Conroe-based Mac Pros
2. The OS will take better account of the Core processors on which it is designed to run
3. A move away from brushed metal interface elements
4. Changes of some unspecified sort to the kernel
5. A new version number for QuickTime
6. Parallels-style running of multiple OSes simultaneously
Things that are unique to this story (i.e., made up and guessed at), and will only come true, if they do, by chance:
1. Spotlight audio searching (almost certainly too buggy to ship at current processing speeds without driving users to self-destructive acts, though I’m sure it has been tested)
2. iSight gestures (people hate having their computers watching them all the time, and a huge proportion of Macs don’t have iSights)
3. Home on iPod (has long been ready, but degrades iPod hard drives quickly and takes more space than most people actually have available on their iPods; the reasons for including it in Leopard would have to be not technical but philosophical, and by deciding not to ship it originally, Apple made a call that seems unlikely to be reversed with much higher-capacity flash-based iPods)
Things that are unique to this story (i.e., made up and guessed at ), and will definitely not come true:
1. Incorporating a version of BitTorrent part of the OS, or into QuickTime
2. Busier transitions when switching between applications (which would go against Apple’s design approach to switching applications since the demise of MultiFinder)
3. QuickTime on Linux!
It’s been proven that MacOSRumors is pure fiction. Sometimes they guess right, ’cause a broken clock is correct twice a day.
Honestly, the best one was a fabricated article about their testing out new Powermacs. They then altered the story throughout the day to fix the blatant lies, and when all was said and done, their original fiction was closest to reality.
They are the Weekly World News of the mac world.
i don’t make stuff up – i simply
1. have wet dreams
2. then post them on a site
3. Profit!
-ryan meader
Will Leopard still be optimized for the PowerPC?
There’s still a very large installed base of PowerPC Macs that’ll need to be supported. One wonders if Apple will herd these potential cash cows to upgrade to Intel based Macs by releasing less optimized versions of OS X for PPC.
Actually, rereading this, it sounds like a joke– a vague reference to all the splashy crap from Vista. In other words, OS X is going to copy Vista.
As suggested by another poster, it’s a stunt.
Mac OS Rumors. The “Weekly World News” of Mac rumor sites.
While this sounds wonderful, one can hardly trust the source (MOSR).
Didn’t Dan Rather join the MOSR staff?
MOSR was a “repuatble” rumor site, once upon a time (more than 8 years ago), but has not had any real information in about the same time. As of late it does seem as though MOSR just posts a wish list (and some of it is pretty silly).
One thing that most definitely will NOT be true is any announcement about an 8 core (four dual core or two four core) desktop (desk side?) machine. It’s just not going to happen. Getting the heat out of a box with that many chips will require more than just liquid cooling. Besides everyone who knows anything about the new core microarchitecture (Conroe, Merom, etc.) knows that they don’t scale well past 4 cores.
Apple would not be so stupid as to put 8 cores into a desktop before Q1 or Q2 of 2007 at the earliest.
Besides Intel’s current roadmap does not show the four core chip even sampling before Q1 of 2007.
Will we see a dual, dual core (four cores) desktop anounced in August? I believe this is likely. The chips might even run at a higher clock rate of 2.93 GHz. (If that happens, expect the box to cost upwards of $4,000 as Intel is quoting the chip at $999 each and with two of them for a four core system means Apple paying almost $2,000 just for the CPUs.) But eight core systems are NOT going to happen.
I take it MOSR is not an accurate rumor site.
Lets See… Ryan Meader
what a twit. i believe IT is still a teen. He has no real concious thought.
If ever there was a tweedle dum – ryan would be the poster child.
I just wish the site would sunset, as in go away. mayhaps ’tis too much to ask for
OK, I’ve got a question for you guys – it’s probably a very stupid question, but one that’s been bugging me.
If applications and Leopard are written in “universal” code, does that mean that the software is one set of code that will natively load on PowerPC based computers and Intel based computers? Or, does it mean that the DVDs that we will receive when we buy 10.5 will have two separate programs on them – one for PowerPCs and one for Intels?
Also, if the answer to the above questions is that “universal” is only one set of codes for both types of Mac processors, is it safe to say that the designation of a program as being “universal” also implies that it is the most efficient way of programing for those chips?
The reason I ask is that I’m hoping that “universal” applications will include one set of instructions that will easily download to all my PowerPC based Macs and the Intel based Macs that I intend to purchase in the near future.
TIA,
Mark
Mark, just read this
http://appleintelfaq.com/
Apple already has different Mac OS X types for each machines particular needs.
for instance laptops have different drivers for fan controls and other features.
Intel Mac’s have EFI (not good actually) and PPC machines don’t.
When you stick a boot disk in a computer it will know what to do.
When you stick a app disk in a Mac it will know which binary of the app to load on to the computer.
When you download a app off the internet and run it it will know which version to run.
Mac Pro??? How about ProMac…sounds much better!
Conroe is not a quad core processor. We will have to wait for clovertown processors to get a dual quad core Mac pro.
Everything in the aricle seems plausible enough. They have just taken existing rumours and extrapolated a bit getting a few things wrong on the way.
If you want to know what your Mac Pro will look like just checking the Intel processor roadmap for updates.
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2547
Jumping with glee… not!
More like a yawn … RATHER like all the regular BS that arrives from MacOSRumours
rather is a key word here
<Didn’t Dan Rather join the MOSR staff?
No, Rush Limbaugh did.
“Leopard will introdce a lot more moving, animated, flowing and interactive ‘living interface elements’ to the Mac experience…”
Oh Geeeeezzz – Apple PLEASE leave out all the Mickey Mouse stuff, you’re ruining the Mac experience.