Apple delays Leopard until October

Bond · 04-12-2007, 11:13 PM

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iPhone has already passed several of its required certification tests and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned. We can’t wait until customers get their hands (and fingers) on it and experience what a revolutionary and magical product it is. However, iPhone contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price — we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned. While Leopard's features will be complete by then, we cannot deliver the quality release that we and our customers expect from us. We now plan to show our developers a near final version of Leopard at the conference, give them a beta copy to take home so they can do their final testing, and ship Leopard in October. We think it will be well worth the wait. Life often presents tradeoffs, and in this case we're sure we've made the right ones. [Apr 12, 2007]

Source: Apple

Bastards!

Guess I'll be buying my Macbook Pro tomorrow then.

GameMaster · 04-13-2007, 01:32 AM

What made you decide to switch to our side?

gekko · 04-13-2007, 02:15 AM

You gain wisdom with age.

Dyne · 04-13-2007, 04:38 AM

TBQH I can wait for it.

Bond · 04-13-2007, 08:08 AM

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Originally Posted by GameMaster

What made you decide to switch to our side?

The ability to dual boot with Windows.

GameMaster · 04-14-2007, 01:39 AM

Haha, I'm on XP now. I'm using Boot Camp. But I also have the parallels program. I use it for WarCraft 3.

Bond · 04-14-2007, 11:30 AM

Running a wireless network with macs and pcs isn't a problem, right?

GameMaster · 04-14-2007, 07:11 PM

Nope. I'm running a wireless network. Works fine.

Bond · 04-14-2007, 09:42 PM

I'm slightly pissed to hear from gekko that I need an XP cd with SP2 to dual boot. My XP cd only has SP 1.

Joeiss · 04-14-2007, 09:57 PM

So I checked out Leopard's website, and it looks sick! I haven't used a mac in like 10 years. This definitely looks amazing though. I don't know which features are specifically new in the Leopard, but it looks good to me.

gekko · 04-14-2007, 11:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Joeiss

So I checked out Leopard's website, and it looks sick! I haven't used a mac in like 10 years. This definitely looks amazing though. I don't know which features are specifically new in the Leopard, but it looks good to me.

Spaces and Time Machine are new. iChat now allows screen sharing, multiple account logins, and presentations with video chat. Also allow backgrounds. Dashcode ships with it, a program to allow easy creation of widgets without programming knowledge. You can now create "smart folders" in Spotlight searches. The finder is supposed to be redone, brushed metal is gone, instead they have a smooth metal. There's some other junk in there too, a ton of little stuff. Most hasn't even been shown yet.

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Originally Posted by Bond

I'm slightly pissed to hear from gekko that I need an XP cd with SP2 to dual boot. My XP cd only has SP 1.

I've heard Microsoft can send you a new SP2 CD. Don't know the details though. I'd recommend OEM, and 32-bit, Vista has way too many problems with 64 bit. Your 64-bit OS X will run fine though. Get used to that.

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Originally Posted by Bond

Running a wireless network with macs and pcs isn't a problem, right?

Usually you can connect on your Mac, and Windows won't connect. But if you're connecting on Windows, your Mac will connect in a heartbeat. If your using 802.11n though, you'll need to purchase the activator for like $2. MBPs shipped with a 802.11n card before Apple announced they were supporting it, so they don't come with the software by default. It ships with Apple TV and Airport Base stations, or you can buy it for a buck or two. Marketing...