What We Learn From Leopard's Delay
While the response from today's announcement that Mac OS 10.5 Leopard would be delayed until October continues to pour in, there are some aspects that can be gleaned from the announcement as well.
A delay until October was actually predicted in a Page 2 rumor by DigiTimes. While Apple has claimed more broadly that the delay was due to a shift in resources to the iPhone project, DigiTimes said that the delay would be due to Apple's plan to "have its new OS support Windows Vista through an integrated version of Boot Camp."
While Apple has long-claimed that Boot Camp will ship with Leopard, and the latest version of the Boot Camp public beta did incorporate Windows Vista support, DigiTimes was careful to refer to an "integrated version" of Boot Camp in their story. This specificity was noted by Arn in a blog posting on the matter, suggesting that "integrated" Boot Camp might be something closer to Parallels virtualization.
None of Leopard's "Top Secret" features have yet to leak from Apple. However, this integrated version of Boot Camp which has yet to be seen in previous developer builds may point to one such feature.
While DigiTimes' rumor accuracy has been poor in the past, this is the latest in a string of stories from them to be corroborated (LED-backlit notebooks, Apple Notebooks with NAND Caching).
A delay until October was actually predicted in a Page 2 rumor by DigiTimes. While Apple has claimed more broadly that the delay was due to a shift in resources to the iPhone project, DigiTimes said that the delay would be due to Apple's plan to "have its new OS support Windows Vista through an integrated version of Boot Camp."
While Apple has long-claimed that Boot Camp will ship with Leopard, and the latest version of the Boot Camp public beta did incorporate Windows Vista support, DigiTimes was careful to refer to an "integrated version" of Boot Camp in their story. This specificity was noted by Arn in a blog posting on the matter, suggesting that "integrated" Boot Camp might be something closer to Parallels virtualization.
None of Leopard's "Top Secret" features have yet to leak from Apple. However, this integrated version of Boot Camp which has yet to be seen in previous developer builds may point to one such feature.
While DigiTimes' rumor accuracy has been poor in the past, this is the latest in a string of stories from them to be corroborated (LED-backlit notebooks, Apple Notebooks with NAND Caching).
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63 months ago
Apple is like a pretty girl: Gets your hopes up, but will break your heart every time.
*sob*
Anyone got a hug?
*sob*
Anyone got a hug?
63 months ago
I learnt nothing.
yeah, pretty much :rolleyes:
i mean, October is a long ways away....why not July or August.....September?
63 months ago
Makes the 8 core a publicly available developer's platform. Load the beta after WWDC and get busy. :rolleyes: :eek:
63 months ago
Apple is like a pretty girl: Gets your hopes up, but will break your heart every time.
*sob*
Anyone got a hug?
Gets your hopes up? Bah, pretty girls are a dime a dozen. You should adopt that philosophy early my son.
63 months ago
Err. What did we actually learn? Sounds like a load of nothing to me. Trying to paint a rosy picture are we?
63 months ago
I think Digitimes heard rumors of the delay and then speculated a reason for it.
They were half right as you said. But the integrated Boot Camp was one sh*tty speculative conclusion. A conclusion that most rational people won't believe.
I mean if that was even close to being true, then Apple should get out of the OS game and migrate all of their applications to Windows. Seriously. Bootcamp is a tool to sway Windows users to the Mac.
And while this delay truly sux, I can live with it. I prefer quality more than anthing else.
They were half right as you said. But the integrated Boot Camp was one sh*tty speculative conclusion. A conclusion that most rational people won't believe.
I mean if that was even close to being true, then Apple should get out of the OS game and migrate all of their applications to Windows. Seriously. Bootcamp is a tool to sway Windows users to the Mac.
And while this delay truly sux, I can live with it. I prefer quality more than anthing else.
63 months ago
An “integrated” version of Boot Camp would be something closer to Parallels for Mac OS X. More specifically, something closer to Parellels’ Coherence mode which allows Windows applications to run side-by-side with Mac applications under Mac OS X.
How do we know this?To me, integrated doesn't necessarily mean it's any different than the Boot Camp we have now, with the only difference being that it comes bundled with the OS.
Although we can always hope for the best! :)
63 months ago
Pretty girls are a dime a dozen. You should adopt that philosophy early my son.
Teach me your ways, Sensei. Wax on, wax off doesn't cut it when it comes to Mac rumors!
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