Guillermo Ortiz, Apple's director for worldwide developer relations, recently explained Apple's strategy for Mac OS X to more than 100 German developers, confirming that it will ship by February, according to ZDNet.
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I believe in an Apple statement somewhere they said that OS X will not be able to run classic OS 9.1 initially. And that there would be a wait.
With regards to the speed of OS X Final, it will be much faster than the beta as most (if not all) of the optimizations will be completed.
I know that Apple said that the version of Classic in the public beta won't work with OS 9.1, but I do believe that OS X final will be compatible with 9.1 (it would be a big problem if it didn't).
All I want is OSX with onscreen snappiness which rivals my Athlon 900/nVidia GeForce 2 GTS. That's all... please?
if os x is set for febuary, then i would not be surprised to see os 9.1 @ MWSF january 9. which is fine by me. i think i am going to stick with os 9 for a while, at least until the first update of os x comes out and more software is around. but don't worry, i am going to buy a copy of it the day it comes out. i will put it on one of my drives, but it won't be used for my everyday work.
Yup yup... all the news seem to point toward a more optimised, more well rounded Mac OS X. I'm just praying hard that in the Final release, Apple would include many of the good features that exist on the current OS 9 that were left out on the Beta.
I would love to go to OS X but I use DSL via a PPPoE client and haven't heard of such a software for OS X?
Anyone know if such an animal exists?
Apple has always said that PPPoE would be supported under MacOS X. I saw a recent build and they have the underlying support via a kernel extension.
There is an entire thread in the MacNN Forums dedicated to getting PPPoE runnin on OSX. I've used it, it works fine... but it is all command line utilities.
The keynote is on 1/9. I think 9.1 will be released on this date.
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Well, nothing is completely set in stone, but it would seem that the end draweth nigh.
The end of our wait, that is. The article mentioned that there will be no more features added...It will be interesting to see just how much they listened to Beta tester feedback. Hopefully, they have optimized the heck out of it, too. It would be nice to see OS X at least as, if not more snappy than OS 9 (because the PB is ssssllllloooooooooooowwwww...), as well as Classic (running 9.1), if at all possible.
Oh well, the wait is almost over. What are the odds of getting a $29.99 discount for returning our OS X PB CDs? Heh...that would be nice.