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Supposed Leopard at PowerPage
PowerPage has somehow gotten their hands on the feature set of Leopard, which is to be announced in just a few short days. Now, as usual, this is unconfirmed and could be nothing more wishful thinking. With that said I am sure some of our readers would be interested in the list. Supposedly in Leopard we will get:- Spotlight 2.0
- Dashboard 2.0
- Safari 3.0
- iChat 4.0
- Automator 2.0
- QuickTime 7.2
- Mail 3.0
- iCal 3.0
- Address Book 5.0
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Michael Curtis said 11:21AM on 8-04-2006
Images look really fake, and this site isn't reliable.
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Chris E boy said 11:31AM on 8-04-2006
yeh, and while msn and yahoo integration and some of the safari improvements sound good, i was expecting a bit more innovation from this release.
take tiger for instance. We had automator, spotlight and dashboard. all brand new features.
will be interesting to see how the bootcamp integration pans out.
and where is the improved finder?
heres hoping a) the list is at least partialy fake or b) there are a lot of features missing from that list.
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Aaron Adams said 11:33AM on 8-04-2006
Wow, upgrades to all the existing components in a new OS release? Who woulda thought! Way to go out on a limb, OGrady!
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olivier said 11:34AM on 8-04-2006
ok, this might be a retarded question but, do you think that Leopard will ship Universal or will we have to buy an Intel-based new mac?
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andrew said 11:49AM on 8-04-2006
frankly, I could care less about iChat. Adium is simply lightyears better (especially the new 1.0 betas)
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Ed Fladung said 12:04PM on 8-04-2006
"..but if it is it looks like Leopard will rock..."
Will rock? If these are the features, i'm pretty under-whelmed. these are all good updates to existing features, but we're not seeing anything very groundbreaking. anything that Vista hasn't already ripped off. where's the fireworks? sure, these new "features" will cut seconds and possibly minutes off existing tasks (and I'm always thankful for that), but these "features" don't allow you to do anything spectacularly new with your mac. Not trying to be negative, flamers, just trying to be honest. if this is the feature set, i'd say it's more like Tiger Redux, then a full point increase.
Let's hope Apple has just a little bit more ingenuity stuck up their collective sleeve.
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Tim said 12:14PM on 8-04-2006
Does Adium support video chat? I've never used it. Please don't throw things at me.
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Vin said 12:16PM on 8-04-2006
#4 That is a great point that I havent seen discussed until now. If it ships only for Intels a lot of PowerPC users are certainly going to be quite miffed.
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Chris Bell said 12:24PM on 8-04-2006
I agree with Ed. But I think there is plenty in the existing OS that needs to be improved. I just want to see an much improved finder, improved Samba support, and more integration of metadata (and improved spotlight).
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allen said 12:30PM on 8-04-2006
#4 and #8 I'm pretty sure that 10.5 will be universal.
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Brett Thomason said 12:31PM on 8-04-2006
It has to ship universal, Apples majority of customers are Power PC
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Eric said 12:32PM on 8-04-2006
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.
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MBX said 12:39PM on 8-04-2006
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.
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Tobias Butler said 1:13PM on 8-04-2006
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.
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DrWho said 1:24PM on 8-04-2006
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
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Wojtek said 2:54PM on 8-04-2006
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.
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Zack Kitzmiller said 4:21PM on 8-04-2006
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.
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kg said 5:46PM on 8-04-2006
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.
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Ben said 8:08PM on 8-04-2006
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.
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Haliburton said 5:27PM on 8-05-2006
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.
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