Sorbet Leopard Development - Feature Showcase #9 (Grand Finale 3/3)
To Infinity and Beyond
In the making for just as long as the original release, Sorbet Leopard Revision 1.5 has been thoroughly streamlined for the future, packing a brand new version of Safari, a brand new App Store, brand new desktop pictures, screen savers, utility scripts, and refinements, as well as a plethora of additional performance optimizations and user experience improvements as part of the more than 50 new modifications since Revision 1.4 -- making this release the biggest thing to happen to Sorbet since Sorbet.
So let's take a closer look ...
Safari now possesses security fixes inline with October 2018 (concurrent with the release of Safari 12), resulting in better overall stability and a slightly lower average memory usage than before, plus out-of-the-box improvements in page rendering times,
plus a refreshed collection of default bookmarks and top sites,
plus a completely revamped page error screen.
The Sorbet App Store boasts a selection of 96 unique apps in addition to 9 useful Web links, surpassing other stores in both utility and convenience. But not only will it come baked in with every fresh install of Mac OS X 10.5.9, the storefront will also be available for download as a separate Universal Binary for Mac OS X 10.5.8 users on both PowerPC and Intel, as well as users of Mac OS X 10.6.x Snow Leopard as an additional option to the now heavily dated Mac App Store.
Revision 1.5 debuts 21 new utility scripts, including switches to change Dock functionality, toggle Bonjour to increase overall performance, create RAM disks to temporarily store apps / app caches, run the BSD periodic maintenance scripts on demand, and empty various system caches. And not only that, gone are the days of manually running tune-up scripts after each fresh install; Sorbet Leopard now boots straight into Setup Assistant.
Furthermore, gone are the days of browsing through forums and message boards while seeing pages peppered with tiny rectangles, as well as exclusively relying on your phone to send people waves of funny faces and exotic icons. In this release, Unicode 13.1-compliant emoji characters are fully supported
*1 and can now be both sent and displayed from commercially abandoned 20-year-old hardware capable of natively running nearly 30-year-old Classic Mac OS software.
Finally, Revision 1.5 brings even more modifications and improvements to the overall user experience that all together make for an even closer end result to an authentic Snow Leopard environment running on PowerPC, like a default Dock configuration inline with 10.6.8, a Utilities folder configuration inline with 10.6.8, a Terminal configuration inline with 10.6.8, high performance network throughput inline with (if not surpassing) 10.6.8, and thanks to being a restorable disk image (that does not fail to restore anymore), a complete OS install time inline with 10.6.8, finishing in less than a mere 15 minutes on a Power Mac G5.
In other words, it's your Power Mac -- unleashed.
Both Sorbet Leopard Revision 1.5 and the Sorbet App Store will be released on May 2nd, 2022.
(Get ready to fall in love all over again.)
*1 InterWebPPC is required to view full emoji library.