John Siracusa's
Leopard review for Ars Technica is, as usual, the "Sunday New York Times" of Macintosh reporting. Highly recommended if you're looking for thorough and forward-looking GUI-to-kernel coverage.Here's the bit that's most intriguing for folks with lots of data locked up in Adobe or Microsoft formats:
Yep, it's (finally) the end of the line for Carbon GUI applications in Mac OS X. Oh, sure, they'll be around for years and years to come, but the lack of 64-bit support is a long-term death sentence.
I can only dream about what Photoshop or Illustrator would be like if they were rewritten in Cocoa...
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