Mac OS X Leopard delayed, good thing I didn’t wait for it
In late March, my trusty old Toshiba Tecra, following 3 1/2 years of reasonably healthy service (minus a burned-out hardrive and that time I spilled water on the keyboard), decided its circuits were too old and therefore the screen should never turn on. And although I managed to restore usefulness by taking it apart down to the last component, putting it back together but leaving out most of the screws in the base, and giving it a chiropractic adjustment (a slight twist on the base and a couple bumps on the table), the necessity of hourly such adjustments left me in need of a new machine.
And so, thought I, “Macs now run Windows”, and promptly decided that the machine for me was an Apple MacBook. 2 machines in 1 and I can now finally test in Safari. The problem? Apple was supposedly shipping a major operating system upgrade in a month or two, and who wants to buy a machine just before that happens? Well, it turns out my decision last week to purchase one anyway was wise, as Apple announced yesterday that OS X Leopard, the new operating system, would be delayed until October, because Apple needed to borrow key engineering and QA resources in order to deliver the Apple iPhone. Now I’m quite surprised Apple would make this admission publicly, as it suggests rather poor foresight, but then again, this is the Web 2.0 and successful Web 2.0 companies are transparent and open with their users, no?
In any case, I now have a 13″ MacBook, booting both Mac OS X Tiger and Windows XP, and I like it.
