Leopard Announced October 26th

[Michael Sacci]

Ordered and new hard drive waiting and ready, let the fun begin!!!!!

[Brian Pitt]

Yippee!!! I think I’ll wait until all of the bugs are worked out before updating. What are the big selling points?

[David Roth weiss]

[walter biscardi] “Just remember, erase the harddrive and start over with an FCP system or install a clean drive and install Leopard there.”

And, make sure to clone your system drive first, and set that clone aside just in case Leopard has spots…

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[Bob Flood]

okay, so now that the iphone is out of the way, and they’ve got leopard shipping, do you think apple can allocate some resources to lowly old FCP??? 🙂

i know there are only 800,000 user worldwide, but maybe SOME of the prgrammers from leopard could look at media management?….or nesting?…..or transisions?,,,,,,etc etc.

I can only hope

“I like video because its so fast!”

Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.

[Nate]

I read an article last week that said Leopard is only for Macs with 1gig processor or faster. That all our old Macs sitting on desks that are slower than 1gig processor are now certified junk. Is it true?? Is it “boat anchor” time..

[Jeff Carpenter]

>>What are the big selling points?
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http://www.apple.com/macosx

As Final Cut editors, our big deal is a true 64-bit OS. This should allow Final Cut to eventually take advantage of more RAM than it does at the moment. (Not instantly, but eventually.)

As for me, my 2 big favorite features are ‘Time Machine’ and ‘Quick Look.’

Others are excited about ‘Spaces,’ ‘iChat Screen Sharing,’ and the final version of ‘Boot Camp.’

And then there’s the updating of things like Mail and Finder and what have you and some 300 other odd little improvements.

[Winston A. cely]

[edit] “That all our old Macs sitting on desks that are slower than 1gig processor are now certified junk. Is it true??”

[Walter Biscardi]

[edit] ”
I read an article last week that said Leopard is only for Macs with 1gig processor or faster. That all our old Macs sitting on desks that are slower than 1gig processor are now certified junk. Is it true?? Is it “boat anchor” time..”

From the Apple website:
minimum system requirements

* Mac computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5, or PowerPC G4 (867MHz or faster) processor

* 512MB of memory
* DVD drive for installation
* 9GB of available disk space
* Some features require a compatible Internet service provider; fees may apply.
* Some features require Apple’s .Mac service; fees apply.

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[Michael Sacci]

[edit] “That all our old Macs sitting on desks that are slower than 1gig processor are now certified junk. Is it true?? Is it “boat anchor” time.. “

That is crazy talk, I have yet to see a new OS that makes old systems that are not up to spec stop working. If they are working today they will work the same on Oct 27th. They may not be able to be upgraded but they still work. I for one have a G4 867 running OS9 that I use as an encoding and DLT system.

OS’s have to move on, to move on they need to leave somethings in the dust, but a lot of work can still be done in the dust.

[Walter Biscardi]

Note that Time Machine requires an external hard drive to use.

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