“Wired News has obtained a preview copy of the new Mac OS X 10.5 operating system. We installed Leopard on our test machine (a quad-core Xeon Mac Pro), and the installation was accomplished very quickly with zero difficulty. We checked the option to keep all of our personal settings and preferences, and those were preserved when Leopard booted,” Michael Calore blogs for Wired.
“First impressions: Even though the code isn’t final, Leopard already looks very sleek — the reflective dock, translucent menu bar and deeper drop shadows behind active windows give the desktop more space-aged gloss. Animated behaviors like Stacks, Spaces and Cover Flow in the Finder rendered super-smoothly on our fast test system. There are new screen savers, updated remote desktop management settings and some of the core applications (Mail, Safari, iCal, etc.) have been redesigned. Firefox 2 and Photoshop CS3 both booted up just fine. We mounted a 3G iPod via Firewire with no problems. Spaces is controlled by the F8 key, so if you’ve been using the F-keys for Expose, the workspace manager is easy to add to your muscle memory. Spaces can also be assigned to a button on the Mighty Mouse — super handy,” Calore reports.
Full article, with some screenshots (including Safari 3 Public Beta passing the Acid 2 test), here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Harrison” for the heads up.]
But how will it work on my lowly 2GHz Intel Core Duo MacBook with 1 GB of SDRAM?
Like lightening, I suspect.
>Like lightening, I suspect.>
Maybe even like lightning.
My wife is still enamored with her 7-year old Clamshell G3 iBook. I wanna know how well Leopard works on that.
“My wife is still enamored with her 7-year old Clamshell G3 iBook. I wanna know how well Leopard works on that.”
umm….. sorry, no. I believe Apple said it would work with late G3 computers(2002) and higher.
And Tommy Boy is still enamored of his wife’s clam!
I can’t believe they used the term “space aged.” Hello, 1960s.
They tested it on the fastest system available to mankind? How about testing it on a real system that users are actually using on a daily basis??
I can’t believe they used the term “space aged.” Hello, 1960s.
They meant “Spaces-age”.
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See! It looks just like Vista.
I’m srprised that Apple had a eppy over them posting screenshots.
Sure it’s a Dev Preview but since M$ would have got it too, why do they care if the public get to see screenshots.
Even if some issues are highlighted, it is obvious that this is not the final product. Given that the press reaction to Safari for Windows and the WDDC presentation are extremely positive, I don’t think Apple could do anything at the moment to generate bad publicity.
MW sales – yeah baby
Time to order that octo-boss!
Thanks, Ron. I mean, ron.
Yerrelcum
RE: PowerPC G3 & Leopard Compatibility
Excerpt from wikipedia:
“(Leopard) Compatibility
Like Mac OS X 10.4, Leopard will be available for both PowerPC and Intel Macs. While it is known that Leopard will support PowerPC G4 and PowerPC G5 processors, support for the PowerPC G3 is reportedly not present in the pre-release versions which have been made available to developers. When Apple’s Leopard website first appeared online, the 64-bit section stated, “From G3 to Xeon, from MacBook to Xserve, there is just one Leopard.” The sentence was removed from the page the following day, leaving open the question of whether Leopard will support Macs with G3 processors. In the past, each new major release of Mac OS X has dropped support for at least some older Macs; 10.3 dropped support for Macs without built-in USB ports, and 10.4 dropped support for computers without FireWire ports.
Documentation contained with the Developer Preview DVD states that a PowerPC G4, G5, or Intel processor is a minimum requirement. Despite this, some users have managed to install the developer preview version of Leopard on Macs with G3 processors by editing a particular file and then creating a new installation DVD with this edited file. However, even though these installations of Leopard can be installed on G3 Macs, some applications (for example Safari and iChat) will not run. It is not known whether this will be possible with the final shipping version of Leopard.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_v10.5#Compatibility)
Leaving out the G3 completely would eliminate the iBooks sold in 2003. The G4 iBook was released in Oct 03.
Probably not the biggest issue in the world since a lot of macs have been sold since then.
SJ mentioned that Tiger had been the most widely accepted OS in Mac history. That was based on the large share of Mac users running Tiger. What he failed to mention is that a lot more people have bought Macs since Tiger was released, than during the period when Jag or Panther were the installed OS.
Time to upgrade machines IF you own a G3 Mac but want to use Leopard. I guess some people will be mad but that’s is a consequence of progress.
I hope the final version does not have a default vista green desktop. MS always tries to copy Apple. It would be a real shame if anything about Leopard even remotely suggests that Apple is trying to copy M$.
awesome! i managed to pull the photos off a google cache after they took them down
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Considering the headache PC’s have caused their owners in the past, Mac owners have been very fortunate.
I believe that with Leopard, Apple inc. are gearing to shift to an era where the operating system exists in a number of appliances in decremental forms. For example, AppleTv will run Leopard except for iwork, iphone will on Leopard & safari, ipod on itunes, vedeopod on quicktime & itunes etc..
So the time has come for Mac owners to start thinking in terms of not just upgrading their software but the hardware as well.
The shift this time round is huge, it is not just an OS upgrade like it has been in the past.
Got Safari 3 on my dual g5 powermac and my dull at work. Lovin’ it!
I was really hoping that the system requirements for Leopard would be the same as Tiger. It doesn’t look like it, though. The beta requires a G4, and I doubt Apple would release it for the G3 and not have it tested first.
BUT, I bet you will still be able to unofficially install it on any Mac that you can install Tiger on.
Oh, and who gives a shit about the default desktop picture???
YEP, ME too. I really think that Leopard will not support the G3. If you look at the software requirements, iLife and iWorks etc will not run on the G3. Even my iBook – 900mhz 14 inch which usually works on everything looks likes its going to be left out.
Really a pain cause I would like to bring all three of my systems G3, G4, and G5 up to one OS.
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I’ve never seen such crap in my life.
Apple should give up making OSes. Believe me, I’ve been in this business a long time and know what I’m talking about.
That is so funny. LMAO !!
“I’ve never seen such crap in my life.” John, just look in the mirror. LOL
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JMHO