Someone who claims to have an NDA with Apple, has revealed the new features MacOS 10.5, Leopard, will have. He claims all these details are already available on other websites, hence he can list them without having to worry. The most interesting bit: Leopard will ask during install if you want to install Vista or Linux on a seperate partition so you can run them simultaneously (a heavy Mac is required). Please note that the authenticity of these words is debatable at best. My take: There have been numerous rumours that Apple is going to add virtualization support to Leopard, so that might be true. And I expect Microsoft to support this. Why? Because of this, and because a Windows install equals money to MS. Whether on a Mac or not.
MacOS 10.5 Leopard Features Revealed?
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An NDA is an NDA, it doesn’t matter where or how other information is released. You keep your gob shut if you signed one.
Exactly. If this guy is being honest, then the operative phrase should be “had an NDA”.
Seems pretty out there. let’s see some solid evidence.
He talks about TrashBack. This is an application part of Mac Tools Pro back in the early 90’s which could be installed as part of classic Mac OS (not sure which version). Is Apple reusing the name or does this person lost touch with reality?
I think if you read the replies to the original post you’ll take everything with a HUGE grain of salt. I think the list is pretty bogus – just things the poster put together based on current speculations.
It reminds me of everytime Apple announces a “major event”. Everyone has a friend who knows this or that and they’re never accurate.
I’m pretty sure that virtualization will be here for OS X sooner rather than later but not as a part of the standard OS and not with the requirements from the linked post.
They’ve already done a pretty good job debunking this on the forum where it was posted. Here’s a clue on just how “out there” it is :
13. An across the board speed increase of 35 – 40%. YMMV.
Yeah right.
17. Airport (Extreme only) will notify you via the airport icon flashing in the menu bar if your signal is being hijacked or used by anyone other than you authorized.
Um, ok. I guess the pixies will tell you when someone is spoofing your MAC.
Interesting notes here, but I don’t know if I’ll bite. Here is my take, assuming all comments are true:
6. Hooks are built-in to support an Apple PDA, but I can say no more.
iSync updated? I remember hearing about an Apple PDA (not the Newton) that Apple had worked on, but later canceled at the later stages of development. I wonder if this has anything to do with this.
11. Mail, Address Book, iCal, iSight, and iChat will become one integrated application, much like Entourage (but better).
I prefer the separate apps, much like Firefox and Thunderbird over Mozilla. If written well, these apps could interoperate well, without the need for them all to be launched concurrently.
14. Font, Printer, and User Preference (.plist) repair routines are built-in and are schedulable.
Finally! Although I do not mind using plutil or Onyx, but having something for all these built in is going to be great.
16. When Repairing Permissions, the “We are using special permissions…” will no longer be displayed. Finally!
I thought this was fixed in the 10.4.6 system update released yesterday (Monday). Am I missing something here?
Dual or triple booting other systems is not totally plausible to me at all. I doubt whether Apple would ever want a user to contaminate their Mac with Windows or Linux. It sounds like a horrendous support burden waiting to go wrong as well.
Why bother? They can always run Linux or Windows in a virtual machine anyway. Intel hardware will have much more full support for virtualisation through VT, so the virtualisation rumours sound OK to me. The option in the installer for Linux or Windows sounds like BS given that people could easily do that without shafting their system.
Thom’s rumours of virtualisation seem about the most believable to me, and there’s nothing about virtualisation in this guy’s post!
Hooks are built-in to support an Apple PDA, but I can say no more.
Mmmmmm. All nice and tantalisingly vague, teasing us with one of those super secret, behind-closed-doors devices that get rumours flying like a swarm of locusts. Mention that it’s by Apple, home of the iPod, and you can feel that hype rising. And then people get Origami, or it turns out to be a total non-event like Apple’s mobile phone :-).
I think you only need to read the comments as well to judge that this wiffs a bit.
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i’m calling shenanigans on this one. Some of these are very possible features, but they are also very predictable features, as they are extensions of present features, or just no-brainers. (The disappearance of sherlock, for example.) On the other hand, the dock with magic bouncy sound, safari color tabs, little terminal bubbles that say, “‘rm -rf /’? don’t do that!,” it’s just all garbage.
Oh, here are some facts and probing questions, by the way, in relation to the numbers in the article:
1. Classic already doesn’t support any os lower than 9.1, and Apple highly recommends upgrading to 9.2.2.
4. How can you say that safari will be 37% faster, as so many new features are under development, with more than a year to be optimized?
8. Do you even know what the “Finder” does? The “Finder” does not display remote connections. The “Finder” is a file manager.
The rest of the points in the article show a real ignorance of how MacOS X works. I’d doubt this guy ever even touched a mac in his life. Shenanigans, that’s what I say.
“Shenanigans? You mean that place with all the shit on the walls?” lol
“Littering and…. Littering and….”
Heh. That film’s an all time classic!
not to mention no classic support on intel macs.. which.. when leopard ships.. will be every mac being sold (most likely)
During the Leopard install, you are given the option to create specific partitioning to accommodate MS Vista…
I’m no fan of Microsoft, but these “MS” (Microsloth, Microshaft, Money$oft, etc…) remarks are getting so tired. If you can’t resist the urge to insert your own childish remarks in an article, could you please at least exercise some kind of originality?
What is wrong with the correct Microsoft abbreviation (MS)? When I used Microsoft’s version of DOS, it wasn’t commonly referred to as Microsoft DOS, but rather MS-DOS.
Sure, the other Microsoft slang may seem childish, but the commonly accepted Microsoft abbreviation “MS” still seems perfectly acceptable, and without insult.
The poster was referrin to the dollar-sign. OSnews automatically replaces M-dollar-sign with MS, hence the post appears a little weird.
April fools joke that’s still fooling people apparantly.
Notice the date of the post.
http://macdailynews.com/index.php?URL=