10.5 Release Date Announced

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Mac OS X Leopard coming October 26

By Jim Dalrymple

Apple announced on Tuesday that its next generation operating system, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, will be available on October 26. With over 300 new features Mac OS X Leopard updates almost every component of the operating system.

“We think Leopard is the richest OS X release yet,” Brian Croll, Apple’s senior director of Software Product Marketing, told Macworld. “There is one version of Leopard — the ultimate version.”

A few of the most talked about features in Leopard are the new desktop that includes a Coverflow view of files; Stacks; Time Machine and Quick Look. A complete list of the new features is available from Apple’s Web site.

Leopard will also include the completed version of Boot Camp, Apple’s solution for running Windows on an Intel-based Mac. Croll said the beta of Boot Camp was downloaded over 2 million times and the company received a lot of feedback from customers.

Leopard will cost $129 and is available for pre-order today. If you purchased a Mac beginning October 1, 2007, you are entitled to receive a copy of Leopard for the shipping cost of $9.95. From today forward, a copy of Leopard should be included either pre-installed or as a disk in the package. If Leopard isn't included, Apple will ship it out to you for $9.95.

System requirements for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard call for an Intel Mac, Power PC G5 or a Power PC G4 with an 867MHz processor or higher, 512MB RAM and a DVD drive for installation.

Mac OS X Server

Mac OS X Leopard Server will also be released on October 26, Apple said. Leopard Server introduces 250 new features to the operating system.

Leopard Server will come with Podcast Producer, a way to automatically publish podcasts to iTunes or the web; Wiki Server, allowing people to collaboratively create and modify their shared web sites; and iCal Server, a CalDAV standard-based calendar server.

Making the sometimes daunting task of setting up a server even easier, Leopard Server includes a new Server Assistant that configures server applications, network settings such as IP addresses and DNS configurations and user accounts.

Apple said that Leopard Server also eliminates the need to manually set up Leopard clients by automatically configuring client applications, including file sharing, Mail, iChat, iCal, Address Book and VPN from user information stored on the server.

Leopard Server will cost $499 for a 10-client edition and $999 for an unlimited-client edition. Pre-orders are being accepted beginning today and current subscribers to the Apple Maintenance Program will receive Leopard Server as part of their service agreement.

Leopard Server can run on any Macintosh computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5, or G4 (867 MHz or faster) processor, a minimum 1GB of RAM and at least 20GB of available disk space.http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/10/16/leopard/index.php

all i can say is it's about time. the timing of this could not be better for me too. my harddrive in my laptop recently died so i am stuck using my crappy pc :( . with 10.5 coming out in just over 9 days of my posting this, it is enough time for a lot of the major bugs to be fixed in time for the postthanksgiving-day sales :D

[Crazy Jamie]

I'll wait a few months before upgrading, but I'm certainly hotly anticipating this. Should be excellent.

[Boots]

I'm still getting used to Tiger.

But for less than $129 thats not bad. No hurry for me though.

[Crazy Jamie]

I'll be interested to see what the price is over here. Technically if we're going on exchange rates we should be talking round about £70, though I'm certainly not that optimistic.

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Leopard will cost $129 and is available for pre-order today. If you purchased a Mac beginning October 1, 2007, you are entitled to receive a copy of Leopard for the shipping cost of $9.95. From today forward, a copy of Leopard should be included either pre-installed or as a disk in the package. If Leopard isn't included, Apple will ship it out to you for $9.95.

i didn't even notice this part when i skimmed it before. i think it is great that they are willing to do this. i know people who bought 10.4 did not get the disks so this is very good

[The Eye in the Sky!]

I have been reading about this all day... and am excited. One thing that I've yet to understand is that it is 64-bit but basically everything is run on 32-bit... right? I know it said that it's programs will have drivers to upgrade them but what about other programs that I have that aren't made by Apple? Or someone could just try to explain what the difference is.

Either way, I'm stoked for Cover Flow. I'll probably buy it a few weeks after the release just because I don't want to keep spending money right now.

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I have been reading about this all day... and am excited. One thing that I've yet to understand is that it is 64-bit but basically everything is run on 32-bit... right? I know it said that it's programs will have drivers to upgrade them but what about other programs that I have that aren't made by Apple? Or someone could just try to explain what the difference is.

Either way, I'm stoked for Cover Flow. I'll probably buy it a few weeks after the release just because I don't want to keep spending money right now.
from what i can tell, the processor can run things as 64 or 32 bit. (most/all?) apple programs like itunes (well maybe not itunes, but the OS itself and the background processes) will be running in 64 bit. it will simultaneously be able to run 32 bit programs from other developers. it would only make sense that if they were to make a 64-bit 3rd party program that it would run as 64 bit.