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Apple Expected to Demo Leopard Successor Next Week

Posted by timothy on from the or-not dept.

4roddas writes "Reports circulated Wednesday that Apple may demo the next iteration of Mac OS X next week or even release code to developers in preparation for an early-2009 launch. According to an account on Mac enthusiast site TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog), Apple may provide early copies of Mac OS X 10.6 at next week's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), which opens Monday and runs through next Friday in San Francisco. Mac OS X 10.6 will run on Intel-based hardware only, said TUAW, and so will mark the ditching of support for the older PowerPC processor-equipped Macs. Apple announced it would shift to Intel processors three years ago, and unveiled the first systems in January 2006; most analysts have said that move is largely behind the reason for Apple's renewed success selling personal computers. It has never disclosed how long it would support the PowerPC with OS upgrades, however. Ars Technica also weighed in Wednesday on Mac OS X 10.6; its sources pegged with OS with the code name 'Snow Leopard.'"

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  1. Re:Not a surprise by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Explain this "Fiasco". Every feature they said would be there has worked for me.

    This isn't XP vs Vista, sounds more like "Waiter my soup was at 121F when I specifically asked for it at 120.4F. (49.4444444C and 49.1666667C to our international readers)

  2. Re:Apple may or may not do something next week by MightyYar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A new release of the largest commercial Unix OS isn't geek news? I mean, it's not Linux but at least it's not Windows...

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  3. Re:MacOS for PC's by larry+bagina · · Score: 5, Insightful

    BeOS tried that. NeXT tried that. IBM (OS/2) tried that. It doesn't work.

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    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.

  4. Re:Not a surprise by telbij · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Okay some people were affected by a handful of real nasties, but I bought it the day it came out, was working 18 hours a day at the time on a product release on both a G4 and and Intel machine, and only noticed very minor issues.

    To compare it to 10.0 is hyperbole.

  5. I'm too cheap by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't need another paid release so soon. I don't care to spend $100 a year for my OS. If Microsoft tried that stunt people would be eating them for lunch