Amazon.com Puts Leopard Up For Pre-Order
Amazon.com has put Mac OS X Leopard up for pre-ordering.
Amazon began offering the software for sale on June 12th, just one day after Apple's WWDC Keynote.
As of this writing Leopard is ranked as the Number 1 best selling piece of software on Amazon.
Apple Dropped 64-bit Carbon Support?
It is becoming clear that Apple has no plans to support Carbon as a 64-bit library in Leopard.
During WWDC 2006 it was made clear on a slide in the Keynote that 64-bit Carbon and Cocoa would be supported.
This year Steve showed a similar slide in his Keynote with a glaring omission, Carbon was missing. The reason for leaving it out was apparently intentional.
Apple's website confirms that the 64-bit frameworks to be supported in Leopard will be; ocoa, Quartz, OpenGL, and X11 GUI framework as well as the POSIX and math libraries found in Tiger.
Apple has effectively confirmed this in a posting made on the Carbon mailing list earlier this week.
For those interested, Carbon was primarily used in the early days of Mac OS X as it was employed to help port legacy apps to OS X.