Talk:Mac OS X Leopard/Archive 1

This is Archive 1, which cover discussions which began in 2005.

Links to support info

Could someone place a link of some sort to this article that shows the accuracy of the information therein? It's not that I don't believe what's here, I am just curious to see where it comes from. I am particularly interested in hearing about the PowerPC/x86 support that is going to be simulataneously supported in this new OS. I was under the impression that Tiger was going to be the "end-of-the-line" OS for PowerPC systems. It's very interesting to see things stating otherwise. mdjkarazim 2005-07-07 18:27:25 (UTC)

Jobs' WWDC keynote address would be a good first reference: [1] FYI, Apple continued supplying OS updates that would run on their old 68K machines for almost four years after introducing the PowerPC architecture, and they've been more than happy to sell $129 OS X updates to G3 owners for the last few years. They might conceivably drop support for the old G3 models in Leopard, but they're not about to abandon people who are just buying G4 PowerBooks and G5 PowerMacs this year. Tverbeek 7 July 2005 19:04 (UTC)

Hardware before software

New Intels coming out by June, 2006. New OS coming out by end of 2006. So the Intels are going to be running Tiger for 6 months? That doesn't seem right somehow. Although maybe it's best to stagger the transition ... a new chip AND a new OS all at once might be a bit too much ... :) --Kwnd 22:45, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Whether it "seems right" or not, that's evidently the plan. The developer Intel machines are already running Tiger, so it's actually more like 18 months of Tiger-x86. Tverbeek 02:22, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

How about "They're pretty busy"? I mean, making everything but the PowerMac and XServe Intel by Leopard is widely expected, and PowerMacs may be Intel by year's end. That's 4-5 lines to redo drastically, as well as porting their other software over to Intel. Toss in the iPod based stuff, and Apple would appear to be running at top speed all year long. I don't see how Leopard could get out the door before MacWorld San Franciso 2007.

Wait, 4-5 lines of code? How long does it take to retype 5 lines of code? And Tiger and all the apps are already rcompiled. Sorry, didn't see my own idiotness. Ccool2ax 14:30, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

What a difference a year makes, eh? With Intel's accelerated rollout of Core2, the entire Mac universe will be Intel before Leopard arrives. Frankie 12:46, 6 June 2006 (UTC)