Leopard coming soon?

Deleted member 651465 · 17 Jan 2007 at 22:43

Just wanted to let people know..

Apple has seeded the latest beta of Leopard to developers (the second since the Macworld Expo) which is usually an indication that it's imminent

Also (for a bit of a teaser), under known bugs it lists "none"

The recent beta has fixed over 40+ bugs which is a good thing!

richieboy · 17 Jan 2007 at 22:45

Ooooh cracking, should mean i have to wait less time to order my MBP

ringo747 · 17 Jan 2007 at 22:46

and iv just got mine today! Wonder if its released within 14 days do i get it free??? i wish

Beepcake · 17 Jan 2007 at 23:05

Hmm.. I can't seem to see it.. how odd

I hope it's a lot better than the last seeded build. Apple's bug and fix list in the seed notes are a bit of a joke though, so I wouldn't take too much notice of them

drak3 · 17 Jan 2007 at 23:07

Apple's website says its coming in spring. So I guess it wont be for sure before March even if its ready.

unknowndomain · 17 Jan 2007 at 23:29

I would like to point out that apple hasnt released to us or developers a version with all the features they have claimed are 'top secret' so that means when they decide to announce it they will still have to bug test all the other features which no one has yet seen.

Beepcake · 17 Jan 2007 at 23:35

unknowndomain said:
I would like to point out that apple hasnt released to us or developers a version with all the features they have claimed are 'top secret' so that means when they decide to announce it they will still have to bug test all the other features which no one has yet seen.

To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if these 'top secret' features don't exist. If they are anything major then people would need to be testing their code now with these new things in place. You might think that any changes they make will be backwards compatible but there's currently an awful lot of software that doesn't run properly on Leopard. Stuff from big companies is effected as well as small ones, and Leopard is just Tiger with Time Machine and Spaces dropped into the Applications folder at the moment

unknowndomain · 17 Jan 2007 at 23:41

I would be very supprised if its not coming as Leopard is not worth it at the moment and if they have until end of spring to ship it then that is enough time for some more testing.

Caged · 18 Jan 2007 at 02:05

I can't wait for Apple to continue their trend of making each new Mac OS release run faster than the last one. My machines feel fast enough but anything extra is always welcome.

dirtydog · 18 Jan 2007 at 09:54

Beepcake said:
...and Leopard is just Tiger with Time Machine and Spaces dropped into the Applications folder at the moment

What is Tiger though - just Panther with Spotlight and Konfabulator, sorry Dashboard?

Beepcake · 18 Jan 2007 at 09:57

dirtydog said:
What is Tiger though - just Panther with Spotlight and Konfabulator, sorry Dashboard?

Yep, Apple usually only make small changes each release, and yet somehow manage to break just about everything in the betas

dirtydog · 18 Jan 2007 at 09:59

I still think Mail looks better in Panther as well. With Tiger they seemed to fall into the trap of changing things for the sake of it. (MS have just fallen into the same trap with some of the things they've done in Vista, but I digress.) I am curious to know just what the deal is with Leopard

Will_3rd · 18 Jan 2007 at 10:01

It should be intresting to how Leopard turns out, personally I can't wait till it is released

Beepcake · 18 Jan 2007 at 10:04

Still no sign of it on ADC though, hope they aren't just seeing to the yanks this time around

stuppy · 18 Jan 2007 at 10:14

EVH said:
Just wanted to let people know..

Apple has seeded the latest beta of Leopard to developers (the second since the Macworld Expo) which is usually an indication that it's imminent

Also (for a bit of a teaser), under known bugs it lists "none"

The recent beta has fixed over 40+ bugs which is a good thing!

Where did you get this from? The blurb i've been reading on various Mac sites is saying that its 10.4.9 that has "none" for bugs and 40+ fixes.

Are you sure you've not been reading about the Tiger updates?

Beepcake · 18 Jan 2007 at 10:17

stuppy said:
Where did you get this from? The blurb i've been reading on various Mac sites is saying that its 10.4.9 that has "none" for bugs and 40+ fixes.

Are you sure you've not been reading about the Tiger updates?

I think you might be right there, there's been a few 10.4.9 updates seeded lately. I hope they seed and let me test the 802.11n update at some point

ic1male · 18 Jan 2007 at 12:47

No, it is 10.4.9.

I think the lines of communication between Cupertino and Omicron Persei 8 have gone awry.

Beepcake · 19 Jan 2007 at 08:17

There's a new Leopard seed out this morning.. and it's still chock full of lovely bugs

They've got a fair way to go before it's ready to ship imo.

ic1male · 19 Jan 2007 at 11:22

It's going to be the same kind of date as Tiger - 30 June 2007, if they're lucky. Otherwise August just before the "back to skool" buying.

nero120 · 19 Jan 2007 at 11:23

I don't really see how they can improve on OSX to be honest. Except the obivous performance tuning, there is nothing that is missing from the OS in my opinion. Time Machine? Gimmick if you ask me. Obviously having a great OS that is nearly perfect does not make the shareholders happy, so these releases are inevitable. Im in no rush to pick up leopard. The only reason I would get it is for the full bootcamp support.

Leopard coming soon?

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