Will Australia get the first look at Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard?

Well not to worry guys, it wasn't previewed at all. In fact there were only 50 people there for the Melbourne one. Apparently they were expecting ~200.

Best I saw was a Parallels demo (which was cool, but not newsworthy...). It was the fastest I've ever seen Windows boot up! Pretty awesome.

Me personally i dont care where it gets showed first(i live in australia), i would be more worried about what the actual OS will be like. Picture this, year after year apple has always produced and better looking and working OS then microsoft. Iam a huge mac fan but no one can look at Windows Vista with out "wow", its an amazing looking os with lots of really nice features and if history is to follow its normal path we can expect to apple to make something even better. No one will be able to guess what apple has waiting for us but we one thing we know its gonna be awesome.
Who's with me.
How will it make apple look if microsoft can make an OS that looks better then OSX

christopher, i think it would be one of the most exciting things to ever step out of cupertino. its just a difference of personal taste. there are things that i keep a pc around for just because i HAVE to, not because i want to. if i could run those things within mac os, it would be incredible. not boring, not a snooze. so if you have no use for windows, that's you (and maybe your cousin). as for the average user (that's me and the rest of the world), it's huge. beyond huge. just look at all the frenzy over boot camp.

there are tons of windows-only apps, utilities, and formats out there that ANY user would find useful. to compare yourself, a hardcore mac user, to the average user is ludicrous. the average user wants to use windows for the things they cant do on a mac, and *gasp*, there ARE things you can't do on a mac that you can with windows.

and this confused the hell out of me:
"It will be good for the average Mac user who also wants to run Windows, but not for the average Mac user." -- what??

Apple's OS X upgrades have always been pretty major. And in case you haven't noticed, the time between each is getting longer and longer. ETA for Leopard is early '07, perhaps as early as MWSF, definitely before spring.

Ill be there, ill let you know if theres anything intresting

Lemmie guess, we have to buy this one too? People are complaining about Apple updating the iPods so much, what about updating the OS so much and making us pay to upgrade? Is there an ETA on 10.5?

No, but Australians will get a sneak preview of the next one.

It will be called: "Mac OS X 10.6 Kangaroo"

(That's if a dingo doesn't get the OS.)

I'm afraid the chances are approximately zero that _anything_ will be said about Leopard in any detail.

http://boztek.net/blog/Archives/2006/May/earlyWWDCfrenzy.html

Sorry.

Well I am all set up for attending the Sydney event on the 19th. Will let you know if anything intersting happens.

Kevin,
I agree with Nicholas with virtualization being a snooze. It will help Mac users run Windows, but what I'm looking for is a way to run Macs better. It will be good for the average Mac user who also wants to run Windows, but not for the average Mac user.

I have no use for Windows whatsoever, so virtualization, no matter how well implemented, is boring.