After Leopard : Seeking the Ultimate

Well now, it is going to 1 months after MAC OS X 10.5 Leopard id released finally, and already we have 10.5.1 update on Nov 15. Leopard is doing well except some security and compatibility glitches. Apple still supports Tiger and released it's 10.4.11 update this month. By the start of the following year, we should have a great number of Leopard users, but unlike the estimated Windows 7 (codenamed Vienna) from Microsoft stable, Apple did not announce the future of MAC OS.

Though some state of the art hardware features and capabilities are well implemented in Leopard, making itself more easier to use, Apple is yet to use the rising newer technologies like Multi touch etc in their new OS. Where iPhone uses this technology to get an edge, I should except the touch as the future of GUI as well as a descendant of Mouse. Indeed mouse is easy to use in many accuracy based application like CAD, Photoshop, High performance Gaming etc. but touch is the future way to go because, it adds pretty easiness in day to day use. Also, Microsoft's Readyboost and future use of NAND flash drive based hybrid HDDs should be implemented on the next edition of MAC OS. A database based filesystem is better to be implemented as Microsoft is coming with their WinFS, a SQL based file system.

With rising of DDR3 and DDR4 memories, Intel's Nehalem architecture based 8 to 16 core processors and Terabyte HDDs, Apple should use the great hardware resource to add boons in their OS. There is a rumor that MAC OS X 10.6 will be only Intel- based. So, we should expect a prettier (it must be, it's an Apple), firmer (security), more stable OS in 2009 or 2010. Get on Microsoft, you already got a real challenger.