Leopard on MacBook

Question

I have heard rumors, that the next version of MacOs (10.5) will not run on MacBooks, because the build in graphic is to slow for the new effects.
Can someone disclaim this info?
Does anyone saw the next Os an a macbook?
MacBook   Mac OS X (10.4.7)   no stains and moos at all

Answer 1

He is generally considered to be a moron when it comes to Macs and Apple in general.
This is a well known fact far outside of just the Apple arena. He is officially (and I believe he admitted to it in an interview) a professional troll. He purposefully predicts outrageous things in order to get large amounts of traffic to the site and generate plenty of advertising revenue.
Occasionally he accidentally gets something right. When you make up as much as that guy does, statistics state that sometimes reality will have to intersect your mad delusions.
All that being said, there is very little known about Leopard. Everything I have seen speculated has had absolutely no hint of verification to it. So anyone worried about graphic effects is just making it up.
Maybe the source involved was confused and were thinking of Windows Vista? That may be a problem if MS is able to actually ship it by 2007 (word on the street is that the date is slipping - again, imagine that), and if you wanted to run it on a Macbook, but even in that case Aero falls back to another rendering engine and you don't get the Glass effects.
If Leopard does have some spiffy new graphics rendering tricks, it will do the same thing, and we know that it will because Apple doesn't just say that they do that sort of thing, but they actually have a track record (Quartz Extreme). For example, if on my G4 I add a widget into dashboard it just appears, whereas on a G5 or Macbook it shows the 'splashdown' effect. The graphics chip in the G4 can't do that effect so the system automatically scales back to what the G4 is capable of.
Also, as has been alluded to already, Apple tends to have the foresight to design systems that will be 'current' for quite a long time. Tiger will run on a G3, and those systems are pretty darn old at this point in time, especially in computer years. The only reason XP can run on as old of hardware as it can is that the OS itself is nearly as old as that hardware, it was released in, what, 2001? Nearly 5 years ago?