“‘Another six months?!’ You could hear the wails from Macintosh users last month when Apple Inc. announced that Mac OS X 10.5, known as Leopard, would not ship until October 2007, rather than this spring as originally promised,” Ryan Faas reports for Computerworld.
Faas reports, “Apple had announced Leopard at its Worldwide Developers Conference in August 2006, touting a number of new and improved features, including the following:”
• Spaces, a system that will allow users to group applications into different virtual desktops and easily switch among them
• Time Machine, an easy-to-use backup application with a radical 3-D interface
• A revision of Mac OS X’s Dashboard that will make it easier to create and manage widgets
• A new version of iChat AV with support for piping presentations and real-time screenshots to others, along with a number of visual effects that can be added to video chats
• A new version of the Spotlight search tool with a technology called Quick Look that gives full-size previews of any document without opening it
Fass reports, “These announcements were enough to get eager Mac users drooling, so the delay hit them hard. But while they will have to wait for Leopard, they don’t have to wait to add some Leopard-like features to their Macs. Shareware and commercial tools already make it possible to add many of these features (or something similar) to the current Mac OS X 10.4, known as Tiger.”
Full article here.
What is few more month? Leopard is worth waiting.
UNO zapped both my PowerBook G4 and my iMac G5. Was not worth it. Actually had to reinstall Tiger to make the PowerBook right again.
Leopardize? That’s quite a brutal assault on the English language.
Why not get a real Leopard, instead? The young ones are cute and you can feed them with a baby bottle. When they get older they can protect you from potential muggers.
“When they get older they can protect you from potential muggers.”
Which is also, quite conveniently, an <u>excellent</u> source of protein for your hungry feline friend! And you’ll get your wallet back. Win-win!
@ peach picker. Baby bottle? You dont’t mean a bottle with a modified teat at the end do you?
A baby bottle could never contain enough milk for a baby!
But what I really want is multi-threaded improvements. Why when I have Parellels running (and it’s hogging a whole processor to itself while it tries to display a Windows XP desktop) and there’s a whole other processor twiddling its thumbs, do I get the spinning wheel of death and unresponsive applications for as much as 5 minutes.?
Leopard!
UNO works great!!! I’ve installed it on 3 different Macs will NO ill effects!
I can wait for Leopard and spare any system crashes from installing 3rd party apps which may take up more drive space and CPU then they really need too. There’s a lot more to leopard than what was mentioned in January anyways. We should here about the secret stuff next month. That should be really interesting what the folks at Apple’s R&D came up with this time.
Make Tiger look like Leopard! Fool your friends! Not.
I met a cutting-edge-type guy who glued a PRNDL indicator to the top of the steering column of his three-on-the-tree ’54 Dodge.
It didn’t help. He was still an idiot.
Is there a Finder program that looks like Windows Explorer? That would be immensely useful!
That *was* a joke, wasn’t it?
(If not, then you need some serious help. Right away.)
No I agree with MPC Guy. A Windows Explorer system of file browsing would be very usefull. Can see all files at once. Pathways just dosn’t quite cut it. That is the ONLY feature of windows that I like over the mac.