The steady advance of Mac OS X
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With Leopard's arrival later today, Apple's delivered five major upgrades to Mac OS X in six years, showing that small morsels can be more satisfying than biting off more than you can chew.
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&#147;The Macintosh, with its OS X operating system, is rock solid,&#148; writes Walt Mossberg for the Wall Street Journal. &#147;It is elegant, and &#151; when you do a feature-by-feature price comparison with Windows competitors &#151; it&#146;s surprisingly affordable.&#148; [Dec 09]
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Leopard introduces lots of new apps and interface features to Mac OS X. Can Vista match up?
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The latest release of Mozilla's lightweight browser for the Mac hints at a major upgrade around the corner. In Monkey Bites.
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Mac OS X âLeopard is powerful, polished and carefully conceived. Happy surprises, and very few disappointments, lie around every corner. This Leopard has more than 300 new spots â and most of them are bright ones,â declares David Pogue (New York Times). He points, for example, to two âroutine-changingâ features. Time Machine, which offers âthe shortest setup of any backup system in history.â And Quick Look, which lets you âview the contents of a documentâs icon at full size, right at the desktop, without having to open the program that created it.â Pogue says âitâs fantastic.â
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Columnist Yuval Kossovsky takes a quick glance back at the Mac news of 2004 and then focuses on what's coming in '05. Hint: Keep your eyes on Apple's Xsan technology.
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With new rankings due soon, SGI, IBM and others jostle for bragging rights. Also: Speedy Mac system gets speedier.
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Clever concept takes old-school approach to Apple's mythical gadget. In Cult of Mac.
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Apple said Tuesday that it sold over two million copies of Mac OS X 10.5, known as Leopard, on Friday when the operating system went on sale and over the weekend. That tally makes Leopard the most successful Mac OS release - at least if looking only at the first weekend.
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WWDC 2007 - At its annual Worldwide Developer Conference Monday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs provided the final look at Mac OS X 10.5, code-named "Leopard," before the new operating system ships in October. He demoed 10 out of what he says are 300 new features.
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The near-final version of Mac OS X Leopard, unveiled today at the World Wide Developers Conference, introduces over 300 new features. They include a new Desktop and Dock with Stacks; an updated Finder featuring Cover Flow and a new way to easily browse and share files between multiple Macs; Quick Look, a new way to rapidly preview most files without opening an application; Time Machine, a new way to easily and automatically back up and restore lost files or a complete Mac; Spaces, a powerful new feature to create groups of applications and instantly switch between them; and enhanced iChat and Mail applications, which easily allow users to communicate even more creatively. Mac OS X Leopard, the sixth major release of the worldâs most advanced operating system, is scheduled to ship in October.
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AOL pushed updates to several of its products for the Macintosh platform on Monday, including added functionality that would help its applications work more smoothly with native Mac OS X programs. A new AIM client for Mac is coming soon.
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Apple gave Apple Developer Connection members a mostly complete version of its latest OS last Friday. Is Apple getting close to unchaining Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard?
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With just one week left before Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard becomes available, you can now take a guided tour of some of the newest features of the operating system.
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Apple has released Mac OS X version 10.5.2, the second major update to Leopard, which brings with it 80 specific fixes and improvements.
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Apple has been revolutionizing computer technology since a long time. They brought GUI to the end user, which later Microsoft picked up.
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Gabe: So I picked up my MacBook Pro a few months back and I would not call myself a convert but I do really like it. I"ve been doing all the basic iLife stuff, like making DVD"s of Gabe"s birthday party and photocasting pictures to the family. I am getting much more comfortable with the Mac but there are still some things I don"t quite understand and so I have a couple questions for you guys.