Rosetta Improvements in 10.4.8, Leopard Build 9A303, Vista Release?
Macworld reports that based on their benchmarks, Apple's Rosetta PowerPC emulation technology for Intel Macs has seen up to 30% improvements in the latest version of Mac OS X (10.4.8). Rosetta is the technology that allows Intel Macs to run PowerPC applications (such as Photoshop and Microsoft Office) which have not yet been released as Universal Binaries.
Apple released the Mac OS X 10.4.8 update on September 29th, 2006 and incorporated a number of improvements.
Meanwhile, Apple is continuing work on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and provided developers with a new seed today (Build 9A303). This latest Leopard build provides ongoing performance improvements and bug fixes, but continues to have a long list of known issues.
While Leopard is officially expected to be released in Spring of 2007, there has been some questionable speculation that Apple may be targeting an earlier release. Apple's Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) release will certainly draw comparisons with Microsoft's upcoming Windows Vista release. According to the BBC, Vista will be available to retail customers on January 30th, 2007, while corporate customers will be able to get the newest version of Windows starting on November 30th, 2006.
Apple released the Mac OS X 10.4.8 update on September 29th, 2006 and incorporated a number of improvements.
Meanwhile, Apple is continuing work on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and provided developers with a new seed today (Build 9A303). This latest Leopard build provides ongoing performance improvements and bug fixes, but continues to have a long list of known issues.
While Leopard is officially expected to be released in Spring of 2007, there has been some questionable speculation that Apple may be targeting an earlier release. Apple's Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) release will certainly draw comparisons with Microsoft's upcoming Windows Vista release. According to the BBC, Vista will be available to retail customers on January 30th, 2007, while corporate customers will be able to get the newest version of Windows starting on November 30th, 2006.
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69 months ago
good on Apple for improving the speed of Rosetta, but it would be so much easier is M$ made Office a UB...
69 months ago
This is good.
Now I just hope they get Leopard out in January (when I'm buying my new iMac). :D
Now I just hope they get Leopard out in January (when I'm buying my new iMac). :D
69 months ago
good on Apple for improving the speed of Rosetta, but it would be so much easier is M$ made Office a UB...
i and being to use neooffice for quick viewing of files but when it comes to writing my own documents i do have to fire up the old excel and word. Which is still a pain even with 2gb of ram and a core 2 duo.
69 months ago
i and being to use neooffice for quick viewing of files but when it comes to writing my own documents i do have to fire up the old excel and word. Which is still a pain even with 2gb of ram and a core 2 duo.
Oh please. word opens in like less than a second and I only have a core duo and 1.5gbs of ram.
69 months ago
This is good.
Now I just hope they get Leopard out in January (when I'm buying my new iMac). :D
I would like to be able to put money on Leopard being released publicly before Vista.
I'm guessing Apple pushes to do just that.
69 months ago
It's not just Rosetta. Office on my G4 opens in about half the time it used to on previous versions of 10.4
First open takes about 4 bounces to the Project Gallery, subsequent openings are maybe 2 bounces. Much quicker than before.
First open takes about 4 bounces to the Project Gallery, subsequent openings are maybe 2 bounces. Much quicker than before.
69 months ago
I would like to be able to put money on Leopard being released publicly before Vista.
I'm guessing Apple pushes to do just that.
Very much doubt it, we were seeing release candidate builds of 10.4 long before it came out. The supposed Gold Master build was out about a month before Tiger was released.
I don't think we'll see Leopard until early autumn, this summer's big OS release will be Vista - Leopard would get obliterated in press coverage by Vista if they released at the same time. Apple want as much press as possible for Leopard and they need as much time as they can to get it ready to the point where it's not going to get bad release coverage for bugs etc.
So:
Summer = Vista (followed 3 months later by SP1)
Early Autumn = Leopard (followed 3 weeks later by 10.5.1)
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