Apple’s new Leopard operating system accounted for over half of all sales of packaged operating system software in Japan in October — despite being on sale for only the last six days of the month.
EMC has released Retrospect 6.1.138, an update to its backup software for the Mac (originally made by Dantz, which EMC acquired). The update provides a fix for Leopard users.
For the first time since I met OS X back in 2002, Apple is challenging Mac users to raise their productivity to a new level.
1. Older hardware If you're using an Intel-based machine, grab the credit card and head for the Apple Store. Leopard will run on all Intel-based laptop and desktop Macs, meaning all of those released since January 2006. The same goes for older hardware that uses the Power PC G5 processor; you're good to go.
FileMaker has released an update that brings some compatibility between the database product and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Updated products include FileMaker Pro 9 and FileMaker Pro 9.0 Advanced.
Apple’s decision to push the release of Leopard (OS X 10.5) from June to October is provoking responses ranging from “so what? There are no indispensable new features in Leopard” to “see, I told you that Apple signaled a second-classing of the Mac when it dropped ‘computer’ from its name!” However, it’s not as simple an issue as that.
Following a busy week of hardware and OS announcements from Apple, Macworld Editorial Director Jason Snell and Senior Editor Rob Griffiths spent an hour fielding readers' questions on everything from new Leopard features to the latest Mac Pro information. Here are some highlights from the from their chat session.
Apple has announced that Steve Jobs and other Apple executives will provide a preview of the company's forthcoming Mac OS X "Leopard" release at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in August. The executive team will give the demo at a keynote presentation scheduled for Monday, August 7. WWDC takes place from August 7 - 11, 2006 in San Francisco.