The first build of Mac OS X v10.5.2 was released. And judging by the size of the installation file, it will be the largest technical update of the system in the history of Mac OS X - 350 megabytes of pure fixes.
The first external assembly 10.5.2 received the designation 9C7, and the list of components for which Apple asks developers to pay special attention, consists of 37 positions. These include spell checking, Doc, Rosetta translator (memory leaks resolved) and Finder environments, iChat, Mail, Safari and Time Machine applications, support for wireless data transfer.
A full list of all the changes can be found on the Deep Apple Forum.
The update has a module triakis.kext, which contains the code necessary for the work of video cards on chips RV670, RV770. So if the information from MacBidouille is confirmed, then in the new Mac Pro we are waiting for the ATI Radeon HD 38X0 video card or “something similar from the third ATI series”.
Finally, references to the AMD RS780 chipset are found in the update, i.e. a chipset that contains a built-in video chip on board, and on which motherboards are designed using AMD CPUs, so maybe the appearance of some Apple Mac model with an AMD chipset and processor.
It is quite possible for example the emergence of a new version of Apple TV with internals from AMD! After all, a year has passed as it is produced, so it's time to update it.
Surely, Apple's lawyers made an exclusive agreement with Intel in such a way that only desktop and laptop computers officially fall under its action, and Apple TV consoles, excuse me, are not officially a computer;)
And in Apple TV just no one should worry about what kind of motherboard and CPU are there, and Apple doesn’t say anything about this in the Apple TV documentation. these are consumer goods like a video recorder and therefore Apple has every right to put there any low-end CPU, at least a cheap AMD Athlon or for example VIA C7. Well, Apple MacOS X it will probably spin on the new Apple TV 10.5.2, only Apple TV uses its own interface.
Another option is that Apple will finally release MacOS X 10.5 for any PC clones :)
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Well, or developing drivers for AMD’s motherboards and CPUs, so Apple unofficially supports the development of the Hakintosh project!
And the most unbelievable option:
Apple executives listened to the advice of the financial publication Seeking Alpha, which published the article “Ten reasons why Apple should buy AMD”