OS X 10.5.7 has been the talk of the Apple world for the last several weeks, and for good reason. This last major update before Snow Leopard is set to bring a slew of bug fixes and minor performance improvements to the slightly older yet still highly capable operating system. Nvidia as many of you may not know, recently annouced their new Quadro FX 4800 graphics cards for Macs. What do I tie these two topics together? Well, the release of the Quadro FX 4800 more or less confirms an imminent 10.5.7 release. Again you ask “Why?” The observant few will notice that under “Drivers & Downloads” on Nvidias site, one of the requirements for the new graphics cards is Mac OS X 10.5.7. Surely Nvidia wouldn’t announce, market, and release a graphics card that has to have an operating system and patch that doesn’t exist yet - though stranger things have happned. So, coupled with the countless other “10.5.7 imminent release” articles you see around the web *just google it*, this more or less confirms that very soon we will be seeing some new Leopard specific downloads in Software Update. I for one am not super excited. Sure updates are great and all as they bring new features, however Snow Leopard is just around the corner, and that will be much sweeter.
Source: TUAW