Posted by SloopJohnB
1. Leopard supports OS 9.x, as is done with Tiger, but OS 8 and earlier will not be officially supported. Legacy apps may still work, but Apple just won’t support them.
2. During the Leopard install, you are given the option to create specific partitioning to accommodate M$ Vista and Linux. Reformatting your HD is not required. Depending on your processor and RAM, all OS’s can run simultaneously & independently. A (minimum) 150 GB HD is required (250 GB is recommended), and 2 GB RAM (minimum) should you wish to run more than one OS. Dual processors are required for optimum performance, though this may change in 10.5.1 or 10.5.2.
3. DiskWarrior (in lieu of TechTool) will be bundled with 10.5 if one chooses Apple Care or extends their current Apple Care contract. I don’t know the pricing or specific details, though Apple Care for older machines will increase significantly with the machine’s age. Machines over 6 years old (from date of mfgr.) are not eligible.
4. Safari will include editable Helpers. Safari Tabs can be assigned colors. Safari will be about 37% faster (YMMV). The default for Safari bookmarks will now be alphabetical by folder. Safari will include configurable parental controls (for those who want configured parents). Safari will now import Firefox and Camino bookmarks. Also, there are 12 new Safari “skins”.
5. The Dock will be much different. One new feature is that as icons are added, they will automatically migrate/expand around the screen as needed (or, you can reduce the size of the icons as presently done). Also, multiple docks are an option as is the amount of “bounce” desired in those dock apps launching or needing your attention. There is an accompanying bounce sound, a boing-boing sort of thing.
6. Hooks are built-in to support an Apple PDA, but I can say no more.
7. All Metadata will be editable.
8. You can have 3 ‘Finder’ windows open simultaneously, much like having 3 displays, all running different applications or OS’s. If networked, any 3 computers can be displayed. Depending on the function/application, you can even Drag & Drop between displays. Password or Admin. privileges are required. (see #2 above).
9. Widgets can run on any or all of your open windows, similar to the way Stickies can be placed anywhere.
10. Terminal has balloons that will appear with alerts/warning notes should you wish to do something that you will (later) wish you hadn’t.
11. Mail, Address Book, iCal, iSight, and iChat will become one integrated application, much like Entourage (but better). Included is a customizable Auto Responder and voice activated dialing via numbers or Address Book names. You will be able to automatically send email & initiate iSight meetings, etc. that are linked/pegged to specific calendar events. This feature is called AutoPilot (see #6 above).
12. Voice recognition/security has returned as an option (see #6 above). Note: Use with caution. I am still not certain this will make the final release (it’s still a bit buggy); perhaps delayed until 10.5.1.
13. An across the board speed increase of 35 - 40%. YMMV.
14. Font, Printer, and User Preference (.plist) repair routines are built-in and are schedulable.
15. Sherlock has been eliminated (use Widgets instead).
16. When Repairing Permissions, the “We are using special permissions…” will no longer be displayed. Finally!
17. Airport (Extreme only) will notify you via the airport icon flashing in the menu bar if your signal is being hijacked or used by anyone other than you authorized.
18. Startups, Restarts, & User Switching will be exactly as the User left the machine; open apps, window positions, network connections, etc. will all be reestablished.
19. Bundled with Leopard is a small app called “TrashBack”, a program to recover deleted files. Of course, the sooner one uses it after trashing the better.
20. Numerous (other) bug fixes, including a totally rewritten Spotlight.
Posted by haynesycop
Hmmm! So if i want to run vista and mac os together i have to slave all summer in work and buy a mac with more ram and bigger hardrive.
Great!!!
Loving some of the new features though especially having the widgets in open windows, like that alot.
Posted by fatreg
2Gb ram for dual OS?
shit a brick!
can you upgrade an intel imac? i dont have 2GB RAM in here but would like Vista!
fatreg
Posted by Cycovision
Right, I'm gonna be really grouchy and geeky here but I'm afraid I just can't help it...
Why the f**k would you want to run two or three operating systems simultaneously? Talk about utterly useless gimmicks!
Posted by fatreg
well cyco.
ive a lot of errmmmm phone apps and flashing SW that only works on PC, yet as you know i was bored of PCs. hence the gleaming white slab i have in front of me!
so dual OS would be great, as for others i canny asnwer!
fatreg
Posted by Cycovision
@fatreg
Yeah Two or more OSs are usefull but I didn't mean having two OSs on one PC. I meant having two OSs running at exactly the same time on one PC!
Posted by SloopJohnB
Cycovision, u r thinking small. Being able to run whatever sw u want on any of the 3 biggest os´s around AT THE SAME TIME is incredible! U´ll be able to run windows apps like games (there r more games for windows), run photoshop and corel on mac os (better performance), and surf the web on linux at the same time (safer and very stable os), while keeping u r files out of windows and its irritating errors, bugs and virus. U´ll just search the better version of a sw and run it, regardless of os.
I still prefer mac os to any other os but being able to do that is fantastic and only macs will be able to do it.
Posted by fatreg
@ cyco,
i get you,
thats afooking st00pid idea,
i wouldnt want anty winsows anywhere near my mac os, and you know linus aint gonna work properly on a mac, thats just a silly idea!
anyway what about my RAM upgrade?
aftreg
Posted by amnesia
i think running 2 os's simultaneously is usefull IF it wont slow down the pc (which I doubt).
Anyway, most people will be safe, just dont run Windows and OSX at the same time. Simple.
Just switch when you need to.
Posted by Jools
Web Designers would find running multiple OS's at the same very useful for testing web-sites in multiple browsers at the same time, being able to compare and tweak layouts side by side on the same monitor would be great.
I used to do the same a few years ago with VirtualPC but that was emulated and quite slow...
Posted by amnesia
surely there are apps that can test different web layouts without the need for running simultaenous OSs
Posted by Jools
Nope... there's no way of running the Windows version of Internet Explorer, Opera, Firefox etc. on anything other than Windows. Same as you can't run Safari, Camino or iCab on anything other than Mac OS X.
All web browsers display the same pages differently. Even exactly the same version of Firefox or Opera on Mac and Windows will display pages differently.
So without having both operating systems you can't test web sites for layout bugs.
Posted by Cycovision
@Sloop
I'm not thinking small mate, I'm thinking realistic! Jools has stated the only practical use for runing multiple OSs simultaneously that I can think of, i.e testing cross-platform java apps or websites. Indeed, I used to have two base units, a windows machine and a linux box, attatched to one monitor keyboard and mouse via a KVM switch but only very rarely did I have both switched on at the same time.
And as amnesia said, there's no way that multiple OSs can be run without a performance hit even on very high end systems, so I'm afraid I'm sticking to my guns here; it's a gimmick
Posted by maddav
Sounds very good
Posted by Jools
You can already run multiple OSs on Intel Macs and at near-native speeds.
Parallels Workstation 2.1 allows you to use any version of Windows (3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, Me, 2000, NT, XP, 2003), any Linux distribution, FreeBSD, Solaris, OS/2, eComStation, or MS-DOS in secure virtual machines running alongside Mac OS X.
And apparently it is "driven by full support for dual-core processors and Intel Virtualization Technology (included in almost every new Intel-powered Mac), virtual machines created using Parallels Workstation 2.1 Beta5 offer near-native performance and rock-solid stability."