Rumor: Mac OS X 10.6 to debut at WWDC 08?

Damn....I bought my Macbook Pro last week...then I found out if I waited a few more months...this...geez

"Also as a content creator -- if things like Final Cut and Photoshop start being only for universal then in my mind my computer is indeed obsolete."

---Well, I own a dual core G5, which I've had since 2006. It was the last Motorolla model before the Intel Macs totally replaced them. Although I had an option of buying the first MacIntel towers, I opted out for the G5 instead. Other than missing out on being able to run Windows in native speed, I have no regrets. But I don't mind, since I've got a Dell sitting next to it. I figure if ya want ta run Windows, then buy a Wintel machine running Windows XP, not a Mac.

End users have told me that the MacIntels have lot of mechanical, electrical, functional problems, and don't work with the existing software/hardware peripherals very well. Whenever I go into the Apple service depts. these days, the ones always needing to be fixed are the MacIntels. Hardly any problems with the PowerPC's, even the old G4s. I still have an old eMac running 10.3 and it runs great. Little wonder that all the gamemakers, like Sony Playstation, Nintendo Wii, and even Microsoft use the PowerPC chips in their gaming systems. Because Intel chips simply don't cut it. They're not good enough at operations like floating point calculations or turning over infinite series, irrational number sets. I know that just from using a copy of Adobe Illustrator on a PowerPC and then the same program on a Wintel PC running XP/

Latest news has it that Apple has bought out a chipmaker, which means, as I once predicted, they probably won't be using those plain Jane Intel chips in the near future, but will be producing their own brand to run OS X properly. While Apple publicly states that the Intel chips are wonderful, I'll bet anything that behind the scenes, the Engineers are telling Jobs that the MacIntel chips in their present form don't cut it to run OS X, and that's why they had to buy out that chipmaker--to make modifications in the current design to be compatible with Apple's machines of the future.

Even if Apple drops support for the PowerPC in its next release, I figure I'll be hanging on and using my 'obsolete' G5 until 2012. I figger that won't have been such a bad track record. 5-6 years use out of a computer these days. As I predicted back in 2006, it's been a wonderful machine--running OS X apps and the old Classic stuff from system 9. Pretty darned good. Something which the MacIntels couldn't do.

Sure, I'll get a MacIntel in 2012. By that time, Apple'll either have released System 11, or have merged with Microsoft to product "The System" when they caint iron the bugs out of their respective O/S's and have to join heads just fix the problems they're having. Also, there'll be better souped-up chips, not the Plain Jane Intel junk in the MacIntels today.

3 years, and your AppleCare Protection Plan is done anyway, so if you have a 3-year old computer, it's time to replace it if you want to implement Apple's next operating system.

Apple is not leaving you in the cold, you're not being stopped. If you have an older PowerPC system that still works, there will still be support for it, even after Apple has discontinued production.

Heck, I still have Macs running 10.3 Panther.

If they drop support for PowerPC in the next release, it'll be too bad. They've worked great without a hitch. Backward compatible to OS 9, I've been able to run all the old stuff and new as well. Friends who've switch to the MacIntels tell me they've had nothing but problems with them. Maybe that's why Apple wants to leave the old PowerPC's behind--to cover their tracks and make the users forget how well the old stuff ran. MacIntels are junk and feel like it. They're not even made in California anymore. If I buy one, then I'm not gonna pay more than a grand for one. Maybe the Mac Mini's about as much as someone should pay for a new Mac these days.

OSX THUNDERPUSSY

Check out the wallpaper I made for this a while back: http://tinyurl.com/432qje

I doubt that 10.6 will be a stability release.

I reckon it will be a major release like Leopard, but...
10.7 will have far less new features. It might even be free. There would be lots of 10.7.x releases, but that's because there is considerably longer between 10.7 and the next release.
Why?
10.7 will arrive in 2011 at earliest. That's 10 years of Mac OS X. Mac OS 8 and 9 only lasted about two years each before a new OS appeared. So After 10 years, it will probably be about time for Mac OS 11 (which might – by then – be only available on new Macs, if any revolutionary new hardware appears).

Liger.

There is no merit to this rumor. This is ludicrous, I mean "Snow Leopard"? Do you think they would've called 10.5 BENGAL Tiger?

Since they list "Snow Leopard" but Leopard is in use... I say the next is "SnowJobs"... Again, keeping Steve-O in the creative loop...