“Hints that Apple will enable an option for ‘Windows’ under Fast User Switching exist. Currently, Boot Camp users need to decide which operating system they want to run, and the Mac becomes dedicated to that platform. If true, under Leopard, users can dual boot and fast user switch to Windows and back again to the Mac,” LoopRumors.com reports.
Some other “Top Secret” features for Mac OS X Leopard are also discussed in the article:
• iPhone integration
• Front Row 2.0
• iTV speculation
• Core Animation Everywhere
Full article here.
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Obviously I knpw what this means, but somehow fast user switching FROM Doze makes more sense!
Who let the cat out? Soon an Apple employee will lose her job.
I beleived it until they mentioned iPhone.
too bad that once office 2007 is out for mac, i’ll have absolutely no reason to keep windows and os x running at the same time. although i will enjoy going to the doze world for some gaming. the only reason i would want xp and os x running simultaneously is to work on a word doc in xp and email it or do something else with it in os x. still, it’s amazing to see apple working on this kind of breakthrough stuff.
Yayus. Jump in, jump out before XP drains your soul.
thats good because mac users will be spending lots of time in vista
I had a bad day once and koolaid made my bell-aching better.
Oops, bad day again. Belly-aching.
I love koolaid, especially the red one.. strawberry I think….
I need to start working out… I’m too fat
Hey “Don’t pass the koolaid,”
Yup -“thats good because mac users will be spending lots of time in vista” – that’s right. Our work will be done and we’ll be outside hiking, etc. while you Windoze droids are fighting yet another virus/malware attack. Enjoy. Do oyu want some vitamin C with that OS?
Surely an option to have windows (or another OS) running under Spaces would be better than fast user switching?
re: marcus,
could you please point out what I have been missing regarding the current version of Word under OSX? Why do you need windows to run Word? If you’d say MS Project, I’d understand – even though Merlin supposedly kicks its butt in most disciplines.
Lol wtf would any self-respecting mac user want with windoze? Give me a break. the only cool game you cant get on a mac is the ww2 flight sim but xplane is more fun because i can fly helicopters and have like 30 in my virtual hanger. i would love it if xplane made a combat version. id prolly pee my pants. lol. ill buy leopard for the same reason i U/G tiger: because its gonna improve my hardware performance and make my overall experience cooler in addition to making me more productive. which is the polar opposite of the bastardized version M$ is gonna try and ram down peoples throats. I personally love that article explaining how much it will cost enterprise to switch to vista on a per user basis: 3000-5000 each!!! LOL!!! why not just buy new cool macs and put existing copies of xp on the macs if the morons at work cant figure out leopard. Seems to me as a savings of about $500 per user initially. TCO would of course go down but idc cause i dont own a business and IT fanboys are all F’d up anyway. I know this “IT” guy and all he does is complain about his job like its sooo stressful etc. I dont even ask…i have been clean and sober for 3 years now. havent used M$ since 2003!! hehe
Hopefully it will allow people to switch between using Mac and Windows applications WITHOUT having to install Windows/Vista.
Get AutoCAD et all running on a Mac without an M$ OS…
…well, who the hell would need to buy any other PC other than an Intel Mac?
MDN word: run. As in ‘run everything natively’
maybe the new bootcamp/10.5 will let you have windows on your mac, but hide winXP. Meaning if you need to use a win app, lets say if you have it in the dock, when you need to use it click on it and it will run like it was running under Rosetta. Slow at start up, but you will not see XP when the app is running! Would love that!
maybe the new bootcamp/10.5 will let you have windows on your mac, but hide winXP. Meaning if you need to use a win app, lets say if you have it in the dock, when you need to use it click on it and it will run like it was running under Rosetta. Slow at start up, but you will not see XP when the app is running! Would love that!
If this is true, a lot of people are going to have to put a foot in their mouth for saying things like “those aren’t even real break through features.”
If those are true, holy shit. I mean holy zune. Two more months until we know all…
If that is true then Parallels and VMWare can stop developing OS X products…
glad you are all seeing it my way.
I was so excited that I forgot how to count time.
Three more months until we know all…
Why isnt there any more news about mac book upgrades, we were told to expect them in sept but here it is october and nada, nothing.
I want a macbook but sorry i wont take a rev 1 no way to how. You guys think they gonna wait till january to annouce the update? I bet at the expo in san fran.
What does everyone else think?
I was also waiting for the upgraded MB/MBP, but got tired of waiting about 3 weeks ago.
I’ve been using Macs since the 512K started rolling off the line and I must say, this MacBook is the sweetest Mac I’ve ever owned (in retrospect only, as every Mac I’ve own was the best at the time). I am NOT sorry I got it now because it has improved my workflow and the smaller size (had the 17″ PowerBook) means I can take it just about anywhere.
I really do understand the desire to have the latest and greatest (my typical modus operandi), but given what the reviews are saying about only a 7% speed increase between the Core Duo and Core2 Duo machines, the difference will hardly be noticeable.
My 2¢: don’t wait, get one now and I highly doubt you’ll regret it.
SirROM
Hay Joe, Have Rev 1 MacBook, 3 months now, no problems & lovin it!
PS Using Mac’s since 1984 (Se 40 with extra removable 40G hard drive!)