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Mac OS X v10.5 "Leopard" is the upcoming sixth major release of Mac OS X for Apple 's Macintosh computers. Apple CEO Steve Jobs stated during his keynote speech on June 6 , 2005 at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) that Apple intended to release Leopard at the end of 2006 (when Microsoft at that time was planning on releasing Windows Vista ) or early 2007 (the new release time for Vista to consumers). Leopard will support Macs with both PowerPC and Intel Processors , although by release, Apple may only be selling Intel-based Macintosh computers. It will also include software currently known as Boot Camp that assists the installation of Windows XP (and presumably Windows Vista) on Intel-based Macintosh computers. PROCESSOR Leopard will be available for PowerPC machines, as well as new Intel machines. It is not known if both the PowerPC and Intel versions will be a single disc using Universal Binaries , but evidence so far suggests this will be the case. The Apple DVD developer install kit took advantage of this feature, meaning a user can install the operating system on either a PowerPC or an X86 system using the same disc. Universal binaries allow software manufacturers to make one binary which is compatible with both platforms, greatly easing the transition to the Intel architecture. FEATURES Leopard will include a software assistant currently called Boot Camp (this name is only a development name, so it may change) 1 that assists in the installation of Windows XP Home or Professional Edition on Intel-based Macs onto a separate partition on your hard drive. This allows Windows XP to run natively (not virtually like Virtual PC or VMWare), which means all application will run at full speed while isolating it from Mac OS X. The only downside to it being non-virtual is that you must reboot from one operating system to the other, rather than have both available at the same time. This piece of software was revealed on April 5 2006 as a public beta. Some users have also managed to use this software to install beta versions of Windows Vista. {Link without Title} SPECULATION At the end of his WWDC 2005 keynote, Steve Jobs announced that Apple would be previewing Mac OS X v10.5 at WWDC 2006, which will be held in San Francisco on August 7 – August 11 . {Link without Title} Meanwhile, rumor sites are predicting key features of Leopard. They suggest that the new OS will feature a redesigned Finder that relies almost entirely on Spotlight search technology. The new Finder would help users search through the Metadata of their files (name, file type, creator, creation date, modification date, associated keywords, size, etc.) in real time, as they currently can in ITunes . Along these lines the Finder might display files and their metadata in much the same way as iTunes displays songs; with the ability to quickly sort on and modify that data. [http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1593 A more ambitious rumor is that Apple plans to gather secondary metadata through a number of analysis techniques. For example, analyzing the tone and pitch of an MP3 to determine the genre, using speech recognition to extract the lyrics from a song, using OCR to index and search images, or analyzing a photograph to determine if it was a night or day shot, etc. {Link without Title} {Link without Title} Rumor sites are also reporting virtualization features in "Leopard" that will allow the Windows operating system to run inside Mac OS X. {Link without Title} Leopard is expected to include user-accessable resolution independence, i.e. the capability to size system graphics in physical units--inches, for example, as opposed to pixels. This feature results in standard size graphics independent of the device on which they are viewed. While there was some support for this in 10.4/Tiger, the developer documentation for 10.4 stresses that this is preliminary support in preparation for a "future release of Mac OS X". {Link without Title} SEE ALSO
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