“Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is now ‘finalized’ and… Apple has begun to provide Leopard-related support training materials to its support staff,” AppleInsider reports.
“The last full pre-release of Leopard arrived on September 21st, when Apple provided its vast developer community with Mac OS X Leopard build 9A559 in what was then assumed to be a release candidate,” AppleInsider reports. “A week later the company released a small automatic software update for build 9A559 but did not increase or otherwise change the Leopard build number as it had done in previous cases. Therefore, build 9A559 was the last known candidate to be declared Gold Master and released to manufacturing.”
AppleInsider reports, “All signs have pointed to a public release of Leopard during the business week of October 22nd, with sources specifically singling out October 26 for the official launch.”
Full article, including information about the forthcoming Mac OS X 10.4.11 Tiger update, here.
I Love Leopard. 9A559 is FAST!
Bring it on!!!!!!!
That’s what I call good news!
“Ding!”… [smiles as the baker takes it out of the oven to cool off]
Question: I have a 1stG mini. (Power PC). I’m waiting for the next Pro release before I buy, but I wants me Leopard NOW…am I SOL as far as compatibility with my tiny little mini? Thanks in advance.
I pretty sure Leopard will run on your G4 mini. Any developers out there using that hardware want to back me up?
Cool. I hope so. I am gonna get my Pro in about six months, but I just cant wait that long to have Leopard, I figure $129 isn’t that big a deal to me. But when I have my PRO….drool. Totally maxed out. 16 Gig, dual quads (3.2’s hopefully) raid, the whole burrito.
anyone knows if it breaks Freehand?
“@M.Th
anyone knows if it breaks Freehand?”
I hope 10.5 breaks all 3rd party software. As Steve has showed us with the iPhone, there is really no room for 3rd party software development on Apple products. That Crappy software (just causes adware and spyware) is for Window trolls. We really need ALL of our applications to be developed by Apple, Inc.
As a mindless Apple fanboy (like most of you), I’ll use whatever Steve says to. He knows what I need a lot more than I do…
Woooooo Hoooooooo Steve!!!!!
@Shoeman, cartoon for you:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/core/article.php?id=3559
Don’t believe it. 559 was good – but there are still some relatively nasty bugs.
Just sayin’. This is probably some other sort of “finalization” – not THE LAST BUILD.
MW “good” as in VERY good news!
@Shoeman.
The iPhone has the entire Internet in your pocket, the most useful application ever. Beyond that, it has a camera, ipod, maps, calender, calculator, weather, mail, stocks, cell phone, etc. It is plenty useful for over 90% of what anyone would want to do with portable device.
If you need some third party app that badly, then use a fvcking laptop, or windows mobile device. But don’t come on to our message board and shlt on everyone who enjoys the iPhone the way it is.
@everyone else
Sorry for feeding a troll.
@Traveller
Obviously you don’t read much MDN huh???? I don’t make up the stuff I post here, I copy what you mindless fanboys post.
The statement that “the iPhone is Really a Mac computer” has been posted here HUNDREDS of TIMES, if NOT THOUSANDS of times by the “Mac Fanboys” HERE.
Make up your mind, you can’t have it both ways, it’s either a Mac or it isn’t.
So save your speech for your fellow mindless followers who love to tell us “The iPhone is really a Mac Computer, Wooooo Hoooo”.
And as I mentioned MANY times, I probably currently OWN more Macs than you ever will in your lifetime. I however, unlike YOU, just don’t blindly accept everything that comes out of Job’s mouth…..
Wonder what secret features will appear in the final shipping product… hopefully those secret features were tested as thoroughly as the rest that were released in the beta to developers…
Anyone know how Apple deals with stamping out bugs on these secret features?
Traveller, think nothing of it. It’s kinda sad saying this, but even trolls need some lovin’ on occasion. I’ve been known to feed trolls at other places, and now they no longer bite or throw feces at the passerbys.
MDN word: I “may” regret what I’ve said… not!
Hey Shoeman,
Apple took enormous risk to develop and market the iPhone. As did AT &T;.
They should reap the rewards of successfully taking that risk, including as tight a control of the iPhone and 3rd party apps as they want.
Down the road it may well make sense for them to open it up.
Till then, why should they let others profit from the risk they took.
If you don’t like a locked iPhone, don’t buy one.
Go get Windows Mobile brick.
And man up and stop whining about it.
@Trolls (you know who you are),
It’s getting close to Leopard time.
I’m not a developer, so I don’t have any inside scoop
on how Leopard runs, but I do know that every
update of OS X I’ve installed (which would be all of
them) has been far superior to the previous versions.
Don’t want Leopard? Don’t want iPhone? Then
go spend your time somewhere else.
Back to something useful:
Before the flame fest up above someone asked if the G4 MacMini will be able to handle Tiger. The answer is most definitely. The official cutoff for running Tiger is a G4 running at 867mhz or more, but it can be done on lesser mahines if you really want to.
Apple software updates tend to support hardware for a very long time. Tiger still works on hardware that is 5 or 6 years old. The over 1ghz g4s should keep running the latest OS for awhile.
Thanks for answering my Q on the Mac Mini. Didn’t know it would get so crazy around here….
WOOHOO! I can’t wait for Leopard (family pack)!
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The MS trolls are going to be out in force now that Apple is on a
roll. We’re gonna see rants and such all over the place about how terrible Leopard is–it’s the Rovian way of attacking. Scared
because your boy was a spoiled brat so-called fighter pilot in the
Champagne Unit of the TX NG? Then call the other guy (the
one who actually served in combat) a wimp and a liar, then
voila! everyone focuses upon the that. It’s the same with
Apple–MS knows they are slipping and Apple is gaining, so it’s
time to throw dung at Apple hoping that some of it will stick
(at least for a while). Welcome to Bush’s brand of freedom.
..my beige 266 G3 with 288mb of ram is already bearing the weight of an 8 gig partition ..can’t you just leave it alone
9A559 works on a sawtooth upgraded to 1ghz g4, 1 gig ram.
Pretty snappy considering the machine is over 6 years old. I would probably say this is its last OS upgrade.
Hey, OSX 10.5 is…
“Therefore, build 9A559 is the last known candidate that could be declared Gold Master and released to manufacturing.”
COULD BE declared as a GOLD MASTER.
STOP the feuding and get on topic.
Sorry, just a correction, but I think you are referencing Leopard’s requirements.
Tiger is 10.4 not 10.5. Leopard’s cutoff is a G4 at 867mHz.
And Tiger 10.4.10 runs sweet on a G3 350mHz iMac with only 256 Mb of ram. It is missing a lot of core support and functionality. Yet, it runs extremely well and perfectly smooth for the internet.
thx