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This year has been different to other years for a few reasons, firstly there are a lot of rumours still regurgitating from Macworld and WWDC last year. And secondly, well there is no second reason, lets see how a “slimmer” roundup goes…

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard - Chance of seeing a complete Leopard - 10/10

The biggest news at last years Worldwide Developers Conference was Leopard, Jobs took the stage with several other executives and showed off 10 features of Apple’s newest operating system.

See the future. Then take it home with you.See the future. Then take it home with you.

At the same time Steve said that “Top Secret” features are in the pipeline, to this day we still do not know what these features are and with an almost guaranteed shipping schedule of October it’s about time Apple took the time to show off a finished Mac OS X 10.5. This is bolstered by a promise stated in an email to developers that WWDC attendees will leave with a “near-final” Beta copy of Leopard.

Despite the fact that it has been nearly a year since Jobs revealed that Leopard contained secret features, none of these features have been revealed with any certainty.

One particular feature that popped up in Leopard builds late last year was ZFS. The revolutionary file system is being developed by Sun Microsystems.

The presence of ZFS in OS X was effectively confirmed last week by Sun’s CEO Jonathan Schwartz claimed during a speech “this week you’ll see Apple is announcing at their Worldwide Developer Conference that ZFS has become the file system in Mac OS 10.”

The other potential big feature is the Finder, during WWDC 2006 Steve showed off Core Animation a new technology that helps reduce the amount of code required to make a more “animated” application. For example when moving an object from one to point to another the programmer would only have to specify the start and end point, Core Animation would take care of the movement in between, thus creating visually easier to understand applications at no expense to the programmer.

The Finder in Build 9a410 has also been redesignedThe Finder in Build 9a410 has also been redesigned

The Finder is rumoured to gain much of the enhancements of Core Animation, as of Build 9A410 of Leopard the Finder featured a new skin, a minor enhancement but a potential sign of a complete overhaul.

iPhone / SDK - More feature of iPhone - 7/10 | SDK - 6/10

Many believe that the iPhone we all know is not quite feature complete and that Apple could reveal a few more features.

Since the inception of the iPhone in January it has been a big discussion point that the iPhone lacks any method of third-party application development.

Jobs recently stated that Apple could allow developers to build for the iPhone.

iMac - Line Refresh - 5/10

It’s not every Keynote that you have two big rumour sites going to head-to-head with each other, but this year we have Think Secret and AppleInsider “almost” firing on opposites.

AppleInsider categorically stated that the iMac would not receive an update at WWDC or anytime soon.

Think Secret on the other hand originally reported that Apple would release a new brushed metal iMac at WWDC but then updated the story stating that they could come in “ensuing weeks”.

Mac Ultra-Portable - Release - 4/10

Details are thin but no AppleInsider has recently weighed on the device claiming it is delayed until Late 2007 / Early 2008.

Yesterday purported spy shots from the WWDC Keynote featured an ultra-portable computer specification.