“Development of Mac OS X 10.5 is wrapping up faster than many at Apple even anticipated, and at present, a release can be expected as early as late March, sources say,” Think Secret reports.
Think Secret reports, “Alongside the release of Version 10.5, code-named Leopard, will be new versions of Apple’s consumer software suites, iLife ’07 and iWork ’07, which saw their release date pushed back due to expanded feature sets in both the applications. In addition, sources confirm that iLife ’07 and iWork ’07 will both contain numerous features dependent on Mac OS X 10.5, but whether Apple has made the unlikely and drastic move of completely axing support for earlier operating systems is less certain.”
“As late as mid-2006, Apple had planned to release iLife ’07 and iWork ’07 in January at Macworld Expo, as the company has done in previous years. But discontent over the quality of some of the new additions to the software, including Apple’s first standalone spreadsheet application, saw the release pushed back,” Think Secret reports.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: We’ve now heard similar information from sources independent to Think Secret’s regarding iLife and iWork. Late March/Eary April was the timeframe mentioned to us. Our sources have provided no information regarding Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard’s release date. Of note: Apple released Mac OS X 10.0 (Cheetah) on March 24, 2001.
iMovie better have support for USB2 camcorders and AVCHD in iLife07.
My personal council of mystics, clairvoyants, palm readers and seyonce jockeys have met in session. Leopard WILL be announced Tuesday, April 3rd.
The question that comes to mind is what other Apple products are being paced by the readiness of Leopard to leap? Could this mean that the iPhone will launch earlier than previously hinted at? And the same for the new Mac Pro.
If I’m not mistaken Steve Jobs said at WWDC where he demoed Leopard that it would include iLife (maybe iWork too). So if you haven’t bought iLife since like 04 you’d get the newest one with Leopard. So I would assume that they will be released together.
I totally agree with Macman:
“iMovie better have support for USB2 camcorders and AVCHD in iLife07.”
and wish Timbo is right:
“Any chance iLife and iWork will come packaged with Leopard?”
DLMeyer:
<b>”… but my son (and his fiance)…”<b>
Either you mean my son (and his <i>fiancée<i> or he’s gay and lives in an enlightened state.
I’m just sayin’….
Damn those wobbly typing fingers!
Apple rarely plays “date game”. Products are released when they are ready. I remember all of the “Apple turning 30” predictions. In reality, the April 1st date came and went.
Thinksecret is shit!
i imagine they will abandon the year based name pattern with the upcoming releases of iLife and iWork. Just call these ones 7, instead of ’07. That way if they don’t get to the next versions until ’09 then they can still call them version 8.
An academic bundle of 10.5, iLife and iWork would be nice, but we get pretty deep discounts as it is.
that being said, hurry the hell up with it.
It’s nice to hear that Apple was willing to postpone iLife in order to keep the bugs out… sometimes I think they’re becoming a little like Microsoft in that respect.
fatal,
Five OS releases eh, wow that’s $645(U.S.).
Makes Vista look cheap…
Double entendre intended so no need to flame me.
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Jerry T,
But every OS X that actually cost money was worth the expense.
Vista gives you eye candy, but only for the more expensive versions, annoying security that has already been broken numerous times and draconian DRM that cripples certain parts of the OS and refuses to work with some of your hardware.
They should be paying you to use this Vista abomination.
I wish you guys would learn how to spell fsck properly. Warning: sound file not safe for work.
Yeah but if you waited the five years it took for Vista to come out to upgrade your Mac you would get all the cool features for $129!
Big Al,
Yeah, I agree. That’s why I said double entendre intended.
> what will I have 9 months to play with prior to iLife’08?
Who says there has to be a new release every year? Certainly not Microsoft, with Office 2004. iLife is a VERY complete package now. iWork with a spreadsheet is a fairly complete package. Perhaps iLife and iWork ’09 can out come during the fall of 2008 (about 18 months). Perhaps Apple will do away with the year-based naming to remove the expectation that there will be a new version every year.
RE: price of upgrades…
How much was XP Pro when if first came out? I don’t remember, but if you buy Vista Ultimate now it’s like 400 bucks, or 250 for an upgrade, and that’s a pretty big chunk of that $645 that Mac users would have paid for every OS X release. If you’d paid anything like $250 for XP Pro then the total cost of upgrades would have been a lot more equal. Difference is, OS X has been continually refined and improved in that time, not just shorn up with bailing wire and duct tape. It’s gotten more solid, more stable, and it’s now a mighty foundation for further growth. Windows, OTOH, isn’t developing a stronger foundation. Its holes get patched but the inherent design flaws that cause them don’t, so as time goes on, Windows becomes more and more broken, less extensible and agile, and more tied to outdated technologies as the price of wide system compatibility.
It’s only going to get worse, unless MS does what Apple engineers did years ago – throw out all the old code and start over. They’ve never seemed to even consider doing this, although with Allchin gone this might change. And it MUST change for MS to survive.
Something else about the price of upgrades… If you 5 machines that you want to upgrade to Vista Ultimate, it will cost you, the home user, about $650, even with MS’s discount. I can get a Tiger 5 client family pack for $159 right now on Amazon. It’s $199 from the Apple store, and you can bet that Leopard will be about the same. And that’s assuming you honor your EULA, because beyond that, there is no other mechanism to stop you from loading a single copy of OS X on as many machines as you like. No activation, no serialization.
This isn’t even addressing all the time, work, and money it takes to make XP run well for 5 years. Adding in those costs pretty much end the game. I’m buying a new Mac next week. I know it will work with all my stuff. I don’t have to run a compatibility checker to find out. I’ll get it home, pull it out of the box, plug in a plain old firewire cable to my old machine, transfer my Users folder and settings with all of one or two clicks, and go. That’s it.
THe whole thing is a bargain to anyone who values their time.
You wanna go on the cheap? Fine. See how much it costs you in the end.
I have work to do.
-c
ChrissyOne,
Was that for my “looks cheap” comment?
I did say; double entendre intended…twice.
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