Panther by September? Hints?
- ...sources said Panther will include significant new GUI features.
eWeek reports a mid-September date for the release of the next major revision of Mac OS X. eWeek, however, also reports on speculation that Panther may be the first 64-bit revision of Mac OS X. As a result, they make the leap that new hardware releases (presumably PowerMacs) would arrive at the same time.
MacOSRumors chimes in with Panther rumors -- and claims that Apple's music download service may not arrive until Panther does... reporting on tight integration between Panther and other Apple mediated purchases, including software, movies, etc...
Other claims of upcoming Panther features by MacOSRumors include File/Meta Data Implementations, labels (also mentioned here), more multithreading, and less restarts after updates.
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Originally posted by Kid Red
If ready in June why wait til Sept to release it?
to fuel the fire... hardware perhaps? :)
Oh well. Give me Panther on a 970 with mp4 itunes and a music download service, and (sure this is a little off) perfect voice recognition, and I'll be a very happy camper.
that would make sence to me...or maybe the hardware isn't in full production yet?
those are the two posibilies i can think of...or maybe both...
But I do like it-sort of.
Whatever, it's just MOSR anyway.
My guess is one would have to have 64 bit machine in order to use 64 bit OS.
um, I doubt that current mac users would have to buy a new mac just to use Panther macphoria, but I could be wrong, just seems like that would piss off ten times more people than Apple has already pissed off. Anyone have more info on that?
i hate to admit it, but here is another $129 to apple. i think it should be a free upgrade for .2 users, but it won't be.
Originally posted by macphoria
If Panther is 64 bit OS, would it have backward compatibility with 32 bit processors? Or would people have to purchase 64 bit machine in order to use 64 bit OS? Would it be possible that they will release 64 bit and 32 bit version?
My guess is one would have to have 64 bit machine in order to use 64 bit OS.
They would have to. There is NO way apple is leaving a small number of Os X.2 Users traped bewteen that and 64 Bit.
Plans have been released that say 970 can run 32 bit and will for a while untill big dev. can code for another improvement.
Basically all the dev. that optomized their code to velocity will do this an a couple more.
10.3 is good, bring it when it is ready, I don't want half baked (see 10.1).
Originally posted by Kid Red
If ready in June why wait til Sept to release it?
it won't be ready for the public in june, only developers. that's why. ;)
(not like i actually know or anything.)
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