With 8-core Intel Macs, and the Universal Binary version of Adobe’s Creative Suite hitting the market, my guess is the impact on Apple of the Leopard slip won’t be big. The real pent-up demand is for Adobe’s heavy-lifting graphics apps on Intel’s multi-core technology, shipping in the latest Mac towers. Mac OS X 10.4.9 is mature and stable, and most pros don’t grab the dot-zero release of a new OS anyway: people with work to get out wait until a consensus-stable dot rev appears (and that’s not unlikely to take 6 months or more). Creative pros, much valued by Apple for their high-margin workstation purchases will probably not be delaying much… they can always upgrade in October…
A book called ‘Creation and Evolution’ is cited by Reuters as quoting Pope Benedict saying ‘I would not depend on faith alone to explain the whole picture’ and calling evolution ‘the great fundamental questions of philosophy: where man and the world came from and where they are going.’
N.Y. Times writer Ian Fisher notes in his report that ‘before he became pope two years ago, Benedict had expressed concern that on several fronts, including evolution, science was overstepping its competence, denying the existence of God and becoming its own system of belief.’ However, the Pope is also said to defend theistic evolution, the idea that God could use evolutionary processes to create life. The authorship and availability of the book are not cited… bit mysterious… and very interesting…