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OS X Leopard Ships On October 26th
David in AZ writes "According to the Apple website, Mac OS X Leopard will start shipping on October 26! From their blurb: 'Packed with more than 300 new features, Mac OS X Leopard goes on sale Friday, October 26, at 6:00 p.m. at Apple's retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers, Apple announced today. And, beginning today, customers can place pre-orders on Apple's online store. "Leopard, the sixth major release of Mac OS X, is the best upgrade we've ever released," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "And everyone gets the 'Ultimate' version, packed with all the new innovative features, for just $129.""
I will keep the Gutsy Gibbon on my Mac Mini. Thanks anyway.
Why does it cost me so much for a point release is what I want to know and why aren't people lambasting Apple for such?
* Winners compare their achievements to their goals, losers compare theirs to that of others.
All aboard the hype-train! Next stop, RDF station.
That's certainly too cruel. Apple always makes some nice advances to their system and especially their system libraries. There are some nice things they're talking about with the new version, but I think the greatest trick is to get $100+ from mac fans every two years or so. The short cycle seems a bit exhausting.
Use the Firehose to mod down Second Life stories!
I call rubbish. Look under Boot Camp. They are counting Leopard's ability to read and write FAT 32 as a new feature. For all I know, it's probably been there since 10.0, maybe in previous versions of Mac OS.
What do you care about 3D support, other than to move your desktop windows around? You can't play any games on that shitbox of yours...
i hate to be the one to bring it up, but Ubuntu 7.10 won't cost me a dime...
...vividly encapsulates that post-Watergate/pre-punk/coked-up moment when you could trust no one, least of all yourself.
(I know, I know, I'll probably get modded as flamebait because you'll think I'm saying Ubuntu is equivalent to a nasty couch. I'm not. Just saying that being free isn't everything, unless you are really seriously broke. But you can mod me as flamebait if you please, it's ok)
you're basically wholly owned
you pay their price, no competition
whoopie. another apple os. wow. i can barly restrain myself.
I can't even get myself worked up to the point that I care anymore. Just another day of supporting designers who can't come up with a good excuse to use windows other than 'I don't know anything about windows'.
i can hardly wait.
So they should pack up and go home? Not find a solution to the fact that they're late in the game? I don't get it (I'm not trying to be argumentative. Just trying to understand the comment.) Does Windows have an incremental backup solution that doesn't involve a third-party? I don't do Windows administration so I have no idea if it does or doesn't.
My point was that the guy who said the following was wrong and especially wrong because Linux/UNIX has had something equivalent for quite some time while OS X was the one that had nothing comparable until now:
Oh really? Please tell me what feature of Linux comes even close to Time Machine? No rush...I'll wait.
Windows may not include a good backup solution (and I'm not going to defend Windows in any way because I think its the worst OS). But my point wasn't about only bundled backup software from Apple, it was about all backup software available for OS X being inadequate, whether it is from Apple or from a third party. Also, OS X is a UNIX, so my hope would be that it has a backup solution comparable to what's available for UNIX already, but that wasn't the case until Time Machine.
Also, so see my post here here for more info.
It's great that Apple's finally catching up with features that have been available for UNIX already (Time Machine and Spaces). And maybe innovating a small bit (Time Machine integration with applications). Making it easy to use is very nice, but to be expected from Apple. But to act like they are creating something that UNIX/Linux doesn't have is just absurd.
"Leopard, the sixth major release of Mac OS X, is the best upgrade we've ever released," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "And everyone gets the 'Ultimate' version, packed with all the new innovative features, for just $129.""
...As 'top of the line' performance graphics cards, they will be nothing more than mid range performance computers.
:)
Plus the Apple Hardware Tax and the Apple previous OS purchase tax. So the Ultimate Version of OS X costs what now? $1199? $1399?
Just the OS costs alone are more than Vista Ultimate edition, let alone the premium costs of Apple hardware that is borderline crap even though Apple sadly tries to sell the hardware as the best.
And yes Macs are mid-range hardware... Until Apple stops selling:
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT (256MB)
ATI Radeon X1900 (512MB)
ATI Radeon HD 2600 (256MB)
Especially considering my 2 year old laptop with a Geforce 7950 GTX (512MB) is faster than ANYTHING you can get in a Mac from Apple Desktop or Notebook. And I think this is REALLY sad considering people think Macs are 'better' or 'faster' for graphics, which is not even close to being true...
So please, give us more jokes of how cheap OS X 'ultimate' is... I am dying laughing...