http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2662022,00.html
According to ZDNet's Rumor Piece, MacOS X will be available on February
24th. Who knows? :)
On 12/21/00 6:53 AM, "Philip Kearney III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 12/20/00 7:32 PM, "David Cortright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>> Obviously OS X is getting very close.
>>
>> I would contest this statement. They continue to change the OS and add
"new"
>> features, like the Apple menu.
>
> I must strongly concur with Dave Cortright here. OS X is not even close
to
> shipping. You can't even stick any PCMCIA card into a laptop running ten
> and have it work yet. There are a host of other types of hardware devices
> that don't work with ten yet either.
>
> I know from personal experience running a team of developers trying to
write
> hardware drivers for ten that the kernel still isn't fully cooked yet and
> needs more simmer time. They won't ship ten until the kernel is rock
solid
> and that won't happen anytime soon.
>
> My prediction? Apple will announce beta 2 at MacWorld in January and
it'll
> be April at the earliest, probably May (think WWDC) before it ships and
> it'll be three to nine months after that (i.e. this time next year) before
> all the most popular apps run smoothly on ten.
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