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Macworld is about a month away, and the rumors are just flowing in! Just today, CNBC claimed that they had inside sources that said that the Apple Tablet does in fact, exist. Hardmac claims to know that Mac OS X 10.5.2 will be released at Macworld '08, bringing along "the largest and most important intermediate system update ever released by Apple." The report also states that the update will bring a new compiler and libraries for Intel processors that will bring significant performance boosts to Intel Macs. Amazing. This comes along with another report saying that the Mac Tablet will be released and WILL run a modified version of OS X.

 

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On the 3G iPhone, it appears that it will be shipping between May and June. That's all.

 

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With the release of 1.1.2 about a month behind us, it seems that Apple is preparing to update the devices as soon as this Saturday. The update is supposed to be pretty large, adding a few new (wanted) features. Such as voice recording and disk mode. But this would probably require a new jailbreak, so if you value your iPhone for the 3rd Party value and not for Apple's value, I would say wait to upgrade.

 

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Predictions for MacWorld:

Steve starts off with alittle bit about the iPhone SDK. He'll talk about how well Leopard's selling and all that. Probably make a crack at Microsoft. Followed by the announcement of Penryn for all Macs, which is the only time the Mac Pro will be mentioned at all. Then he start up on iTunes, saying it's sold 5,000,000,000 songs, give or take a billion. Which will lead into iTunes 8 which will have some crazy new interface and the option of the 'Classic' sorting order. Finally, he'll tell everyone about the 5.2 update. Which fixes some bugs, adds the little speedboost, but the part that's the most amazing, iCal will finally have the correct date in the dock! To end it off, NIN plays live since Trent Reznor's a big MacHead and John Mayer's making a new CD.

 

As you see, absolutely NO mention of the Mac-let, 3G iPhone(2) or ACD's.

 

 

I think I would {censored} myself from laughter if that was the actual MacWorld. The biggest announcement being the iCal dock thing.

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Followed by the announcement of Penryn for all Macs, which is the only time the Mac Pro will be mentioned at all.

If they updated *every single* Mac with Penryn and a new mobo chipset, I would be extremely happy. Apple takes so effing long to adopt new standards. If they do update the iMac for penryn, they should also throw in an ATI 3850, since thats single slot.

A cocoa iTunes 8 with core animation would be sweet. Don't know if it's happening though, because it would be leopard only, and have to be ported to windows.

I'd like to see iTunes become simpler, more easy to use, and less resource intensive. iTunes on Windows needs some serious work in terms of launching, quiting, and overall performance.

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I can't wait for that 10.5.2 update! It's gonna be sweet. And yeah Leopard does have a lot of problems but they aren't critical problems like the problems with Vista are. They're mostly just little annoyances and some kinda big annoyances.

 

Just because the problems are just kind of annoying (extent of annoyance varying from person to person), does NOT mean that they are not critical problems. And just because these problems are not as SEVERE as Vista's does NOT mean that they are not critical.

 

Personally, I'd say that problems like wireless constantly dropping and Leopard forcing you to hard boot due to kernel panics, etc, are VERY CRITICAL problems. Shoot, not even Vista had any wireless problems.

 

10.5.2 better fix all this stuff. Speed upgrade? That's nice, but where's the stability? I'd rather having something that will work forever without crashing rather than something that will work faster and crash more than I care to think about.

 

On that note, I'm switching back to Tiger this week as soon as I can find space to back everything up onto. The only feature of Leopard I used was Spaces, anyways. As for UI, I can fix that in Tiger with UNO; and as for spaces, I can just use You Control: Desktops.

 

Unless 10.5.2 fixes a lot of the bugs I've heard of and experienced in Leopard, I'm probably not going to switch back until 10.5.6 or so.

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Shoot, not even Vista had any wireless problems.

That's a lie. Vista boots you off if your on too long. I know, it does it to me ALL THE {censored} TIME! RAWR! Sorry, venting anger. And I know it's not the modem or router because when my boy brought over his XP laptop, worked perfect. I'd have XP on this, but it's mamadukes computer, not mine. Plus I can't find an XP version of Windows DVD Maker.

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That's a lie. Vista boots you off if your on too long. I know, it does it to me ALL THE {censored} TIME! RAWR! Sorry, venting anger. And I know it's not the modem or router because when my boy brought over his XP laptop, worked perfect. I'd have XP on this, but it's mamadukes computer, not mine. Plus I can't find an XP version of Windows DVD Maker.

 

Ahh, that's my mistake. But, when you think about it, it's not even Microsoft's fault all the time when the wireless is booted. It can't be. A lot of wireless drivers are provided by the card manufacturers.

For Apple, on the other hand, they provide all their own drivers, putting them at fault.

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I believed you when you said it. I was just saying that the ones we use in school aren't right. They say October.

 

Ahh, that's my mistake. But, when you think about it, it's not even Microsoft's fault all the time when the wireless is booted. It can't be. A lot of wireless drivers are provided by the card manufacturers.

For Apple, on the other hand, they provide all their own drivers, putting them at fault.

True that Apple can be blamed, I agree with you on that. But I think the wireless disconnectivity in Vista is Microsoft's fault. The computer I got was a pre-config'd HP (it's actually mamadukes, I use it mostly til graduation, when I get a MBP), so I naturally assume that all the drivers would work seeing as I'm pretty sure HP checks to make sure before they ship them out. Although it is possible that I might've just gotten a defective one. What I don't think is possible though, is that the 5 or 6 of my friends that used Vista (whittled down to 3 now) also got defective pre-builts, all from different companies, and they too have the wireless disconnect problem. So I'm not the only one. I therefore claim it being, Microsoft's fault.
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Personally, I'd say that problems like wireless constantly dropping and Leopard forcing you to hard boot due to kernel panics, etc, are VERY CRITICAL problems. Shoot, not even Vista had any wireless problems.

You are kidding me, right.I'm not using Vista on my Dell laptop because exactly that, I even started a thread with Vista dropping the WiFi signal, and the worst thing is that Vista doesn't recognize the Wireless card after it losses the signal, so a REBOOT is needed, no other way.Is ironic that Leopard on this "unsupported" hardware has better results, yes sometimes looses the WiFi Signal, 3 times in week is alot, sometimes just with a replug of the USB adapter is enough, but yes sometimes needs a reboot.

 

Ahh, that's my mistake. But, when you think about it, it's not even Microsoft's fault all the time when the wireless is booted. It can't be. A lot of wireless drivers are provided by the card manufacturers.For Apple, on the other hand, they provide all their own drivers, putting them at fault.

I believe that's not true, somes drivers are not completely created by Apple, they just suply them, even some Wired Ethernet drivers too.

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