Apple Delays Leopard to October

SuperMog2002 writes "Apple Insider has the sad news that Mac OS X Leopard has been delayed until October. Apparantly software engineers and QA had to be reassigned to the iPhone in order to get it out on time, costing Leopard its release at WWDC. For now the original press release from Apple can be found on the 'Hot News' part of their site, though Apple did not provide a permanent link to the story. 'While Leopard's features will be complete by June, the Cupertino-based company said it cannot deliver the quality release expected by its customers within that time. Apple now plans to show its developers a near final version of Leopard at the conference, give them a beta copy to take home so they can do their final testing, and ship the software in October.'"

October?

[WrongSizeGlass]

I guess I'll be dressing up as a Leopard for Halloween this year. I sure hop Flanders it's handing out toothbrushes again.


warning: The above content may test positive for sarcasm and/or could be a failed attempt at humor and as such should be taken with a pound of salt.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Apple is teh doomed!

Damn

[inKubus]

I was just bragging to the office MS pundit that Leopard would be out soon. Then I get Vista'd (tm) by APPLE.

Vista'd- to be up a creek without a paddle

Not delayed, same time as always

[Rosyna]

Saying it was delayed it slightly inaccurate [unsanity.org] since Apple has been saying Spring '07.

Re:Not delayed, same time as always

[SuperMog2002]

October's in spring?

Re:Not delayed, same time as always

[sokoban]

Seasons are opposite in the southern hemisphere.

The real reason for the delay - I totally swear!

[Anonymous Coward]

iPhone delays are just an excuse; the REAL reason is that Apple needs a bit more time to finish implementing their new super-secret killer OS features...

... Palladium ! ... UEFI support ! ... Monad ! ...and finally, WinFS !

Once these features are in place, Vista will pale before Apple's new code-named-Leopard OS, secret-code-named-Longhorn OS! Mwuahahaaaa!

Re:Leopard Delay - no big deal for most users

[Anonymous Coward]

Reminds me of when my boss starts yelling at me for missing a deadline and I let them know it's no big deal because what I was working on really sucked...

Hi, I'm a Mac

[davidwr]

Hi, I'm a Mac.
And I'm a PC.

<squeaky kid voice> I'm an iPhone play with me watch this oh I got a boo-boo make it better daddy let's play catch can I have some ice cream can I can I huh huh oh look a kite I wanna kite mommieee!

Steve Jobs: Damn I forgot how much attention new products need.

Re:phuck

[Paradise Pete]

Aaaaaarrrrggghhhh! I was really looking forward to it.

Why so glum? Now you can look forward to it even longer.

This must be fake

[GerMac Addict]

Seems to me the "Leopard Delay" (as also reported by AppleInsider.com http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/04/12/appl e_delays_leopard_release_until_october.html [appleinsider.com] and gizmondo.com http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/official-apple- delays-leopard-iphone-is-priority-1-251911.php [gizmodo.com]) is merely a hack of Apple's site. I took these screenshots recently: http://home.arcor.de/gitsax/Bilder/Bildschirmfotos /Bild%203.jpg [arcor.de] http://home.arcor.de/gitsax/Bilder/Bildschirmfotos /Bild%204.jpg [arcor.de] http://home.arcor.de/gitsax/Bilder/Bildschirmfotos /Bild%205.jpg [arcor.de] Only one shows this "news".

Re:Mod Me down, but I have something to say:

[winkydink]

The operating system named after pussies that runs on computers used prodominately by men who love cock.

Well, I have to admit, my cock has grown on me over time.

Apple lags behind Microsoft, AGAIN

[The Breeze]

Apple just can't seem to match Microsofts's superior delay history. Microsoft has already astounded the world by an amazing THREE YEAR delay in the original Vista release date and the actual delay; this impressive delay is one of the longest delays for a product that actually eventually made it out of the front door instead of dying...

And here's Apple, trying to out-do Microsoft, and the best then can do is delay Leopard for three lousy months - and technically speaking, it's not much of a delay since the original release date was "Spring 07".

I mean, come on, Apple. Surely you can break something in Leopard to force a longer delay. Microsoft wins, hands down. Apple still lags way behind MS on viruses, as well. With my Windows machine, unpatched, I have THOUSANDS of viruses that can infect my machine if I want to. Apple just doesn't give me that ability. Maybe they just don't care.

Re:What's that huge sigh of relief ...

[bky1701]

What's that huge sigh of relief that I hear coming from the direction of Redmond?

Bill Gates had beans today. Nothing for you to see here, move along.

Windows fan reaction

[Overly Critical Guy]

Windows fans everywhere, admiring the pretty Macs in the window: "If only our biggest complaint was having to wait two and a half years instead of just two years for a new OS release."

Will this run on AMD?

[Alaria Phrozen]

So I see my OS choices in the next five years as: Windows Vista, Mac's OS X, or some Linux variant.

I don't really want to do another Windows. As long as the Mac has Blizzard's support with games like WoW, I may actually be able to abandon Windows. I've tried Debian, Red Hat, Fedora, and Ubuntu. Let's just say I'm an idiot and I'm good at breaking X without knowing how to fix it. I've got a stable, backed up Linux virtual machine that I'm very happy with, and I can use that to write papers in TeX and do assignments for my uni courses; but I don't really feel comfortable with performing any kind of minor or even cosmetic surgery on Linux. I'd really like to, but after breaking each distro with minor config changes...

Anyway! The actual question!

I read in other articles and on Wiki that Leopard will run on x86 Intel style CPUs, and that this particular version you're actually allowed to run on non-Apple specific hardware. I also read that it wouldn't be running on AMD. That doesn't make sense as I thought deep down the only difference was optimizations, and even AMD gets to have those if it's old enough. MMX, SSE1&2, etc.

Can someone please clarify this? Will I be able to run Leopard on my OEM self-built AMD 64 3000+ based machine?

Re:Mod Me down, but I have something to say:

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, I have to admit, my cock has grown on me over time.

It used to be smaller than that?

Re:Damn

[644bd346996]

You seem to have a very tame definition of "creek." For many of us, a creek is not worth paddling on unless there are deadly rapids. When that is the case, floating down the creek can result in getting caught in formations with a strong resemblance to a front-loading clothes washer. That is an easy way to drown and/or break bones.

Re:Damn

[YU Nicks NE Way]

Being at the bottom of shit creek, however, would entail being submerged in shit. Your tastes may vary, of course -- and, of course, there's nothing wrong with that -- but I'd prefer to remain floating on top of the creek, if that's the alternative.

Of course, my preference would be to stay away completely, all things considered.

Re:Not delayed, same time as always

[cyfer2000]

I checked the weather channel several minutes ago, snow tomorrow, so I think October maybe at the end of the spring.

Re:Mod Me down, but I have something to say:

[puddpunk]

Too Much Informative?

Re:What's that huge sigh of relief ...

[Anonymous Coward]

If you look into it, Vista is a grossly superior operating system to Leopard. I can't even believe they're going to release this if they plan on competing, they're years behind.

Re:It is nice to see...

[Petra_von_Kant]

OK, so, let's just get this $300 clear. When you buy a Mac, you are NOT given a 5 user Family Pack for free, you get a single user licence. If someone is saying that when you buy a Mac, you get a 5 user licence for free, they really shouldn't be buying that cheap 7/11 ice, it just isn't worth it. Make the trip to kids playground, the man there is just so much more aware.

"You've got a chart filling a whole wall with interlocking pathways
and reactions to shock and the researcher says "If I can just control
this one molecule/enzyme/compound I'll stop the whole negative
physiologic cascade of post haemorrhagic shock." Yeah, right."

I prefer "Inciteful"

[Anonymous Coward]

So many posts are modded "Informative" when they really should be modded "Inciteful"

Re:Mod Me down, but I have something to say:

[313373_bot]

Hey, your post is informative. Funny should give people some karma, too, maybe 1/10th of a point or something...

Difference Engine...

[argent]

Pity Babbage's customers. He delayed the Difference Engine to get the Analytical Engine out, and it never shipped!

Re:What's that huge sigh of relief ...

[toejam316]

You KNOW that the moderator system is failing when things like the parent get moderated Insightful.

Re:What's that huge sigh of relief ...

[rm69990]

Exactly. From my experience, most "normal" Mac users don't know the difference between a CPU and Powersupply. I upgraded a friend's Mac from Panther to Tiger and it took me a full 20 minutes to explain to her what I was doing because she thought Panther was built-into the Mac and couldn't comprehend how it could be replaced. She actually asked me if I ripped open the computer while she was in the bathroom!

Re:Damn

[Aqua OS X]

For this to be properly Vista'd Apple would need to delay this one more time... ideally a year or more. Then on that third release date they should release a public beta and use that as an excuse to delay the OS another 6 months. Finally, when it's actually released, it should have a ton of problems and Apple should force it upon everyone by making it a minimum system requirement something arbitrary like a new iPod.

That's just great...

[IntergalacticWalrus]

The next version of OS X is being delayed because of a fucking cellphone. That's only going to be released in the fucking USA.

And people ask me why I hate cellphones...