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Apple to Announce new Mac OS X version in June

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the sounds-like-a-high-school-sports-team dept.

swiert writes "Apple has announced that the WWDC conference has been rescheduled in order to present the new version of Mac OS X, codenamed "Panther". Unfortunately, Apple haven't given any details about what to expect from Panther, but after Jaguar this looks promising."

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  1. Can someone fix the icon? by Anderlan · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    After the fact? Or is /code too rigid?

    I thought OS X was getting an X86-64 port, dangit! =[

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  2. wow... by dfj225 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    more pointless Apple news. This goes along with my theory that anything involving Apple gets instantly posted. (See this previous post) Also, without having any details of any kind, the author of this news post states that "this looks promising", when it could very well be a regression for the operating system. I dont' think it is really news that Apple is planning an update for their OS (du..duh!), when we have details then that will be news.

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  3. Mac OS/X on x86-64 Opteron/Athlon64 by eyefish · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What I *really* hope the anounce is support for AMD's x86-64 architecture.

    This would be great for AMD since I'm sure many users would gladly upgrade their motherboards/CPU to run both Windows and OS/X, and it'd be good for Apple for several reasons, among them:

    - Compete with Windows on equal hardware, thus now having a chance to prove it is better or not than Windows on identical hardware.

    - Allow an easy upgrade path from the x86 croud to the OS/X world, since it is easier to buy a motherboard and CPU and continue running your Windows apps, than buying a whole new machine just to run OS/X on it.

    - It'd give Apple a head start on the x86 race on Windows own's turf. I can imagine the headlines "Apple beats Microsoft at shipping a 64-bit x86 OS", which is the kind of things Steve Jobs likes to do.

    - It'd bring Apple to the commodity pricing world of the PC. This is bad for Apple for hardware upgrades, since users would stop buying peripherals from Apple, and instead buy them from third parties, but it'd be good for Apple's software business which could potentially grow tremendously, thus the bottom line is possitive for Apple.

    - It'd end the perception that the Apple machines are slower than Windows-based machines, since now they can be compared on identical hardware running at identical speeds (we'll also finally know if Steve Jobs's claims of superior software technology are true for the first time...)

    On a side note, I hope that Steve Jobs doesn't give himself to temptation and releases OS/X for the x86-64 arquitecture ONLY. There are several millions x86-32 PCs out there which could easily be upgraded to OS/X with a simple software install without buying new 64-bit hardware, so let's hope they're smart about it...

    Finally, please, PLEASE Steve, simple admit that a two-button mouse (along with scroll well which also serves as a third button) is simply better than a single-button Apple mouse, and get on with it!!! A one-button mouse SUCKS!!!