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Will Australia get the first look at Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard?
Tim Gaden (of Hawk Wings fame) has written an interesting article for his 'day job' column at APC Magazine about the possibility of our friends down under getting a first peek at Apple's forthcoming update to Mac OS X, 10.5 Leopard. Apparently, Apple has sent emails stating that they will be previewing the August WWDC during special seminars in Australian capitals during the month of June - nearly two months before the real WWDC takes the stage.If this is true, it would be great to hear real details of what Leopard is going to bring, as opposed to mere rumors of a re-built and Spotlight-dependent Finder, Windows virtualization and resolution independence. Here's hoping our Australian neighbors can't keep secrets very well.
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Aaron Hoffman said 2:52PM on 5-30-2006
The "re-built and Spotlight-dependent Finder" link is a bust.
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yonatron said 2:59PM on 5-30-2006
Seems a lot more like they're using it to try and show devs why WWDC is worth attending in general and give an overview of how the sessions work, not necessarily that they're going to reveal much content.
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Roberto said 3:37PM on 5-30-2006
RE: Rumors of Windows Virtualizations
If the original poster is unable to provide a link, then he becomes the rumor starter :thumbsdown:
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Nicholas said 5:11PM on 5-30-2006
is it just me or are all of these 'new features' really boring? I don't know what I'm missing here, but I want something that actually makes me want to spend £89 on the upgrade such as spotlight, dashboard etc. etc. like PROPER new features, I've been holding off on saying something but all the things mooted sound terribly sleep-inducing and whilst certain people may indeed appreciate such minute 'behind the scenes' changes and graphic designers will no doubt love that resolution thing blah blah what on earth is in leopard for the average mac user that wants something even more useful/entertaining?
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kevin said 5:25PM on 5-30-2006
nicholas, you dont think virtualization of windows apps would be a huge feature for the average user? you're the first person i've ever heard say that.
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Christopher Williams said 6:02PM on 5-30-2006
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.
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Ferg said 6:36PM on 5-30-2006
Well I am all set up for attending the Sydney event on the 19th. Will let you know if anything intersting happens.
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Boris Gordon said 7:45PM on 5-30-2006
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.
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Reg said 8:26PM on 5-30-2006
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.)
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Ellie said 8:53PM on 5-30-2006
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?
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swherdman said 10:39PM on 5-30-2006
Ill be there, ill let you know if theres anything intresting
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killmoms said 11:24PM on 5-30-2006
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.
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kevin said 2:29PM on 5-31-2006
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??
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Alex Mills said 9:05AM on 6-02-2006
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
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Lachy said 12:55AM on 6-20-2006
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.
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