I have heard a lot about this new version of Mac that is to preview at the wwmc thingamajigerr. I know it is said to have bootcamp preinstalled and a new i phone or somethin but wat im intereseted is when is it coming out? Does anyone know? I need to know if it will come out before september. I thought it was supposed to come out on July 27 or was that somethin else? Oh i dunno will someone give me the hookup? And Like what have they unveiled at the WWMDC? Lots of cool stuff is gonna be there! I wish I could go.

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Yes, MacOS X 10.5 Leopard is due to release by the end of this year with many improvements like Bootcamp.

For more information see here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_v10.5

xboxrulz

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So long as it still runs on all my PPC machines....I'm happy. Until FCP comes out for Mactel: I have to stick with the POWER processors

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Final Cut Pro? It works on the Intel machines via Rosetta.

There shouldn't be any performance penalties since you're running 2 processors. One for the Rosetta application and the other one using native apps. (Although MacOS X will do this seperation if need be)

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I am really hoping for a lot of basic improvements and polishing in the next version. A quick example that I ran into today is adding notes to iCal. I often use iCal to track events and to-dos. I would love to be able to add a simple journal entry to a calendar day like "Called landlord and left message about aliens." which makes it real easy to do a Spotlight search later and put together a whole picture of something being worked on. It is an obvious thing which can be done easily in a real calender but was left out of iCal.

I may delve into AppleScript (or maybe even Java) later and see if I can write a simple journal that will tie entries to iCal. Who knows?




Actually, it looks like (from xboxrulez' link) that Mail will have support for notes and todo's (shared with iCal), so maybe it will actually have what I want. Hmmm... now I just have to wait.

 

 

 

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FCP 5 is out now in a universal format, but folks I've talked to have said there is a noticable performance hit when dealing with Rosetta, especially in capture and encoding. Which is what takes up the processor power.

It looks like with my Job, I'll be able to seriously look at getting one of the $1000 iMacs by the end of the year.

Still, I just snagged a single a Dual Core 2.5Ghz G5 tower on Ebay for like $350. Now to see if there was a reserve. That was sheer luck if it works out. Another 5Ghz to add to my grid or another computer to use while the other encodes a video project. Etherway, I make more money by saving time.

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lol, u're lucky, I've always wanted a PowerPC based computer regardless if they're Apple or not, but so far, I don't have the money to get one

As for Leopard, a new sneak peak from Apple: http://www.apple.com/ca/macosx/leopard/


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Why exactly?
To my knowledge they're not that great... Their usefulness was by running Apple systems, what's not needed now. =)

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Without going into a lot of electrical engineering that I don't understand, the RISC archtecture of the PPC chips are far superior in encoding audio and video. Infact the US Navy uses PPC based chips in their sonar equipement because of this reasoning.

Now in rendering, X86 has become the dominate processor because all the rendering engines have been optimized for that format and because of their low cost, one can build a grid of such machines that are powerful and relatively inexpensive compared to the super servers of the past.

I'm happy to finally see native 64-bit in lepord for both Intel and PPC based macs. That was something that was missing and will help a lot with video encoding (which is what I spend most of my time doing). I can edit 3 hours of video down to a 42 minute documentry in about 60 hours of work. Takes 4 hours to render the final output. During that time, I can't do anything else. (other than goto Barnes and Noble, get a mocha and read a book...which isn't bad). However the faster a project gets finishes, the sooner I can move to the next task, and thus the more money I can make or the more play time I can have.

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well, to answer that, the PowerPC architecture is far superior to the x86 architecture like unimatrix said. They can do audio/video and compilation well.

Furthermore, PPC in the XBOX 360 has made it an awesome system. The reason why they didn't use the Intel solution anymore because they learned their mistake from XBOX 1, which was good, but not good enough as a fierce competitor on the video game market. Heck, even all the current-gen console (PS3, XBOX 360, Wii) are all using PPC based processors.

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