Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard due at the end of '06

So let me get this straight...OSX 10.5, the hermaphrodite operating system is code-named "Leopard"? There's only one thing, a Leopard never changes it spots! but Apple? Oh...at least every five years!!!!!

you can bet that one will be used by someone.

I know it's silly but a little part of me is sad because I am now no longer the oh so cool Apple user (or as most people say the company that made the iPod) but with people having a true choice between OSX and Longhorn We will have a butt load of switchers...and I wont be unique. *sigh*

Oh, you'll still be unique, just like everyone else. :-/

This is a sad sad day for apple. Intel chips marks the second down turn in its life... The first after Jobs left apple in 1990's and now this one. I only hope this is a phaze rather than a trend.

I don't claim to know a lot about any one thing, but with the up and coming changes and growing popularity, there's a great potential to have a lot of new Apple users. With that I fear will come nasty trojans, worms, and a whole lot of other junk which made me despise my PC and brought me to seek out Apple. I truly hope it's the operating systems architecture and not the comparatively low number of OS X vs Windows users that keep us virus free. I suppose anything can be hacked, and virus codes can be written for anything, but if OS X becomes like the XP I left...I'm going be very depressed.

You'll still be eunu..., I mean, unique.

[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."

...to distract myself from this revenge of the sith-like episode, I'll look to future sequels...

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

In the foggy future, there will be a keynote with Macs running on the same chips as PC counterparts....

... 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.