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RIP, Classic Mac OS: 1984 - 2007

by Nilay Patel, posted Oct 25th 2007 at 5:16PM


It's not a huge surprise, but Apple's gone ahead and posted a note confirming that Leopard will not support Classic, even on PowerPC machines. Of course, Intel Macs have never been able to run Classic anyway, so only like Hypercard user groups and the three printshops still running QuarkXPress 4 will be affected by this. But this does mark the end of the road for the venerable and oft maligned OS, which ushered in the mainstream GUI era with the 128K Mac in 1984 and remained the default boot on all new Macs until OS X 10.1.2 was released 18 years later in 2002 -- prompting Steve to stage a melodramatic mock funeral for OS 9 at that year's WWDC. Still, the old warhorse managed to hang around for another five years, and we're a little sad to finally see it go. Check a vid of Steve's funeral after the break.

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Leopard pre-orders shipping, blowout coverage commencing

by Nilay Patel, posted Oct 25th 2007 at 3:13PM


As dozens of commenters have noted, Leopard pre-orders have started shipping out from Apple's magical workshops, and since the votes are resoundingly in favor of blowout coverage, we're getting ready to bring it to you. It doesn't look like anyone's gotten a (legitimate) copy yet, but rest assured we'll be all over it as soon as our package arrives -- we swear the FedEx guy looked a little nervous today.

Leopard retail packaging revealed

by Evan Blass, posted Oct 25th 2007 at 9:05AM


It's not like you won't be seeing this tomorrow anyway, but just in case you can't wait another second to check out what Apple's OS X Leopard will look like on the shelf, well, here you go (short vid after the break). The company's trend of minimizing packaging is clearly at play here -- great for the critics but a little disappointing to those of us who remember when buying software meant getting ten discs in a huge box. So, are you impressed, or were you expecting more from Cupertino's award-winning designers?

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Apple halts Boot Camp downloads ahead of Leopard's release

by Nilay Patel, posted Oct 23rd 2007 at 6:32PM


With just three days to go before Leopard hits the scene, Apple's gone ahead and made Boot Camp unavailable to download -- a move that shouldn't surprise anyone, because we knew it was coming the day Leopard was announced. Tiger users with Boot Camp partitions who aren't ready to make the leap to Leopard can rest easy, however, since existing Boot Camp installations will continue to work fine -- but you'll still be riding dirty since the beta license technically expires on Friday with Leopard's release. Again, none of this is a surprise at all, but it still would have been nice for Apple to let people know they'd be pulling the download -- if you haven't snagged a copy by now, you're stuck paying the $129 for Leopard.

Apple posts Leopard Guided Tour

by Nilay Patel, posted Oct 19th 2007 at 12:56PM


Apple's been all about the video guided tours lately, and with Leopard just around the corner, the company's gone ahead and put John, The Classy Salt-and-Pepper Apple Store Employee, in front of the camera to walk you through the new release. Nothing particularly new to report, but it'll keep the fanboys warm for another week.

Leopard now available for pre-order

by Nilay Patel, posted Oct 16th 2007 at 9:49AM


Well, that didn't take long -- following the announcement of Leopard's October 26th ship date, Apple's got the new OS available for preorder. Convenient, but it doesn't really stoke the fires of a fanboy's heart like waiting outside a store all night with $129 in sweaty bills, now does it?

Leopard qualifies for official UNIX 03 certification

by Nilay Patel, posted Aug 1st 2007 at 10:43PM


It's no secret that OS X is based on BSD Unix, and it looks like Apple let a little more of those roots shine through with Leopard -- The Open Group has just awarded OS X 10.5 Leopard UNIX 03 certification, meaning that Apple joins Sun, HP, and IBM as the only certified vendors. The spec covers libraries, system calls, terminal interfaces, commands and utilities, internationalization and the C language, meaning that software vendors can easily port server and non-GUI apps to and from OS X with minimal effort. Although this was already mostly the case, it's always nice to see the circle complete, isn't it?

[Via TUAW]

Apple OS X 10.5 "Leopard" officially debuts

by Paul Miller, posted Aug 7th 2006 at 12:26PM


We came for the Mac Pro, but we're staying for Leopard, Apple's long awaited followup to OS X 10.4, released April of last year. Apple is promising a spring '07 release, and with all of those playground-style put downs of Vista they've been throwing around at WWDC, we don't think a targeted similarity in launch times is out of the question.

Leopard will feature the new and/or improved:
  • 64-bit Cocoa and Carbon application support, right beside 32-bit apps, all native.
  • Time Machine - Automatically backs up every version of your files to a hard drive or server. Includes snazzy 3D Time Machine view (pictured) to browse through older versions of folders.
  • Boot Camp - "Even better." Ships with Leopard.
  • Photo Booth - With expanded camera support.
  • Spaces - Apple's term for virtual desktops. Allows you to group different applications together in their own environment for different tasks, and allows movement of windows between "spaces."
  • Spotlight - Can search other machines over a network. Boolean operations, application launching, and recent items will also be added to the search tool.
  • Core Animation - Developer architecture to create moving eye candy with little code.
  • Universal Access - VoiceOver enhancements, Braille support, closed captioning and improved navigation.
  • Mail - Stationary (templates), Notes (specially highlighted self-sent emails) and To-Do lists all built in.
  • Dashboard - New Dashcode tool allows visual template-based Widget development. There's also a new Web Clip app that takes any part of a web page and turns it into a Widget.
  • iChat - Allows multiple logins, invisible mode, animated buddy icons, video recording and tabbed chats (hooray.) There's also photo booth effects, iChat Theater (slideshows, Keynote presentations and videos displayed over video chat), and photo/video backdrops.
  • Enhanced Parental Controls
  • Xcode 3
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