“Apple this week is preparing to equip its developer community with the first pre-release builds of the next maintenance and security update to its Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard operating system,” Katie Marsal reports for AppleInsider.
“Apple Developer Connection members and other high-profile software makers could receive the first test builds of the software prior to the start of the weekend. The first seedings will almost certainly arrive by the middle of next week, they say,” Marsal reports.
“While details of the release are few and far between, a build train of the upcoming Leopard update will most likely include support for a new wave of Mac notebooks due later this fall,” Marsal reports.
Full article here.
No doubt those news Macs will be snappier with 10.5.5. But what about us oldtimers?
I hope that this solves some of the teleportation hiccups I’ve been having with my iTele.
Does anyone know if they have updated the Snow Leopard beta yet?
A “build train”???
Is that when each guy is “larger” than the last?
Maybe it’s related to a Daisy Chain.
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Wow, Apple are really firing out the updates this time, aren’t they? 10.6 couldn’t be that far off, now! Tiger updates were 3-4 months apart, I recall.
I do hope though, with Snow Leopard, they modify the interface (with just different effects, perhaps) to differentiate it from 10.5. Nothing drastic, but just a visual clue that you are, indeed, using 10.6, hmm?
Andy,
I’ve heard that in 10.6 the menu bar will have a continuous stream of snowflakes gently falling down the screen.
This will be accompanied by a constant audible purr. Very relaxing.
@ Sir Gill Bates
That’s exactly what I was thinking of! How did you know!?
The computer ought to occasionally growl too, or roar (especially when you open an MS app!) to make it seem like there’s a cat in the machine…
Has Apple made Leopard able to see my older white Airport base station yet? Having to lay my PowerBook on top of it just to get two bars made me go back to Tiger. I’m hoping that a future update will improve this so I can take advantage of Apples last PowerPC OS.
Rudge, I’m with you. This is the one thing that keeps me from staying in Leopard on my dual boot G4s. It’s the same in any hotspot with my Powerbook too, only half the signal strength in Leopard compared to Tiger.
It’s too bad also, as I like to see instantly which networks that I’m seeing are “open” in the Airport menu rather than having to find out the hard way in Tiger. Is it the same with Intel Macs?
neomonkey,
Not with my girlfriend’s current generation MacBook.
Has anyone else had problems with Safari crashing when it opens a PDF?
Andy,
Are we good, or what?
PDF,
Nope. Is it on all websites you try, or just one specific site?
Rudge & neomonkey,
I haven’t had that problem. Have you guys checked for firmware updates for your Airport? They don’t show up in the Software Updates.