Supposed Leopard at PowerPage

Oh just cut the eye candy and fooferah, Apple.

How about all the BS Spotlight features being shoved to the background, and making the default behaviour "Command-F, type string, enter" to find in file names ? Since when would most folks' first interest be to search content of files ?

Anw while we're at it, how about a Finder that remembers our sysetem-wide preference for NOT using relative dates in list view ?

How about an off switch for Dashboard, as in "don't load it at ALL" ?

Disk defragmentation and optimization built into Disk Utility ? Hello ? Windows has had it for decades.

The ability to burn cross-platform CDs and DVDs that retain all the layout (icon positions, window locations) of the source files up to the top level, AND are Windows compatible ? The current method of making a disk image antd using Toast to make a Custom Hybrid disk is a kludge, and works only for CDs.

How about some diagnostic feedback based on one's Crash Reports, that all us (er, some of us?) dedicated MacNuts religiously contribute ?

It would have been great if some great troubleshooting database at Apple's end were generated from Crash Reports and maintained (it may be, but can we benefit by it simply?)

Why should it be an esoteric error code in Toast that clues me in to there being an intermittently unreliable connection to a drive, prompting me to pore over my (saved) crash reports and replace an ATA cable, solving 1 1/2 years of once-a-week crashes ?

Make the core OS more solid, reliable, and link it to the intelligence to solve problems it may be having.

It'd be great to see these changes take place, iCal, iChat and Safari are all in need of some serious updating, but I agree with #9, if the OS isn't significantly updated, I'll feel.... cheated.

Remember that this is the same genius who predicted Apple big-screen TV's and that Firewire would be completely removed from the MacBook.

How hard is it, really, to go through each OS component and round up the version numbers, then imagine a few tweaks for each. I'll bet he loves the attention, though.

I really can't see that information comming from Apple. The screenshots are TERRIBLE. That iTunes/Spotlight integration would be nice, but the "fade in/out" doesn't even line up correctly.

These are quick PhotoShop renderings of unsubstanciated rumors. I'm just not buyin this one guys.

I really can't see the feature set being so minor. Apple is after all competing with MSFT for Vista. Apple needs to do a lot more than whats stated here to get us to move to Vista.

Looks like some people are making judgements based on unsubstantiated rumor. How odd. Are we taking this (powerpage) blog post as gospel here?

At least wait until after the wwdc to be underwhelmed anything else is premature underwhelmement :D

A "different, but better" iChat interface? A "brilliant new interface" in iChat?

I am not believing this thing for a second if they're saying stuff like that.

yea i'm disappointed too that the only new things in leopard are actually just upgrades to existing things and nothing really new. even if they overhaul the finder it's just kind of upgrading it.

i wonder what apple has been doing in the past year. somehow to me it seems as if things didn't go as quick as they should've. there was no wow-product at apple's 30th birthday (no true video-ipod or touchscreen-video-ipod as rumored), sure bootcamp is nice but come on... and then still no iphone. macpro's arrive late 06 instead of launch of other intel products. and now leopard too seems to lack of really new innovative things to be even more ahead of vista.

also many phone brands have now integrated music abilities too and it seems the only real innovator in portable music (apple) lacks behind to introduce such a product and it will take even longer until something like a phone-ipod comes to life. we'll see. hopefully i'm wrong.

Just a guess, but since they are still selling new G5's (PowerPC based procs.), that 10.5 will still support PowerPC. 10.6 on the other hand, may be Intel only, but thats a ways off...

Personally, I am really curious as to what the hardware requirements are for this. My wife won't let me buy a new one.

It has to ship universal, Apples majority of customers are Power PC