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06/06/2005, 3:35pm, EDT
Monday, June 6th
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard due at the end of '06
Steve Jobs today announced Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" during his keynote presentation at the World Wide Developers Conference today. Jobs made the announcement prior to revealing that Apple would switch to Intel x86 processors. Leopard is due at the end of 2006, alongside Microsoft's Longhorn release. It will be available at the height of Apple's transition to Intel processors. Apple has not published specific details of the new operating system.
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[Apple Senior Vice President Phil] Schiller said the company does not plan to let people run Mac OS X on other computer makers' hardware. "We will not allow running Mac OS X on anything other than an Apple Mac."
I do see this as I wrote in another thread, that this is a nexus of sorts for Apple, with a maturing OS - one year from now it will be fast and rock solid and hopefully still virus free - and Longhorn will be a buggy, youngling with perhaps many problems and viruses (and with Emperor Palpa-gates concentrating on the Xbox Wars), next year may be the time for a New Hope. No one knows what the future will bring, but I don't think this requires everyone to go into exile quite yet!
I think Leopard will continue the Mac DNA and that is all going to be good. The cpu won't matter to me if I can buy a Powerbook that is as fast as the fastest Sony or Dell and looks and feels like a Powerbook with only $100 price difference. I will be very happy...and so will all of the switchers coming from Sony and other PC vendors.
You see the OS wars are just going to be returning to a new phase with four overlapping and confusing fronts:
1. Game consoles battling it out in the living room via M$, Sony (in league with IBM) and maybe Apple (in league with Intel?) 2. Servers battling in the cool rooms, mainly IBM vs. Dell vs. HP vs. Apple (recently joining the fray) 3. Creative professionals will have a future of unsurpassed choice with the s/w battles of MS vs. Adobe vs. Apple. and the h/w battles with Dell vs Apple vs HP? 4. The Home Computer war will be the most confusing, but looks to be where M$ and Apple go head to head as Dell and Sony and HP try to figure out where their futures lie.
We still don't know what the battle plans are, though, I just hope Steve has a few trump cards to take a big slice of what MS and Sony carve up in the home. Any wins in servers is just gravey and those folks don't care if the cpu's are IBM or Intel.
Crazy times
... so why do a side by side comparison?...
... because they have different operating systems! Can you imagine a bunch of apps running side by side, Mac and Windows...
... with the Mac just kicking butt because OS X is so fast and Longhorn will be sooooooo sloooooow :)
Just a happy thought in the midst of a sea of unhappy Mac developers who have to rewrite a swaths of code.