Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) Due in Q1 2009? (flag)

www.macrumors.com — Apple's Director of Engineering of Unix Technologies Jordan Hubbard spoke at LISA '08 last week. LISA (or Large Installation System Administration Conference) is a technical conference targeted at engineers and system administrators. This year's c...

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Snow Leopard Release Set For Q1 2009 [Rumor]
Gizmodo — ... . A Q1 release would mean that 10.6 is arriving a lot sooner than most people had expected, and that a demo may possibly be shown off during Macworld San Francisco 2009. [Macrumors] ...

Unconfirmed: Snow Leopard Release Set For Q1 2009 [Rumor]
Gizmodo — ... . A Q1 release would mean that 10.6 is arriving a lot sooner than most people had expected, and that a demo may possibly be shown off during Macworld San Francisco 2009. [Macrumors] ...

Early Snow Leopard in Q1 2008?
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence — ... using the new, optimized code? The new release schedule would also mark a shortening of the development process which had been widening over the past few releases, though Snow Leopard may be considered a somewhat smaller update due to its lack of feature additions. We should caution that this is only one person's presentation slide and could be factually incorrect, though he is certainly a person who would be in the know. Via MacRumors ...

News Roundup for November the 19th
Apple Eclectic — ... Also in positive news territory, it looks like OS X 10.6 ‘Snow Leopard’ — which just gets snappier each time I type it — is pencilled in for release in the first quarter of next year. Which means midnight on March the 31st in Apple calendar time, but that’s still only a little over four months away. I just can’t wait to get my OpenCL on. I’ll just spend the time until then staring at Apple’s ...

Recent Apple Rumors
The Mac Lawyer — ... Snow Leopard  ::  MacRumors reports that Apple may begin shipping its updated operating system, OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), in the first quarter of 2009.  However, it should be noted that Snow Leopard is expected to be a "smaller" update than OS X 10.5 (Leopard) was, with fewer new features. ...

Apple exec: Mac OS X Snow Leopard to be released first quarter of 2009
MacDailyNews — ... November 19, 2008 - 10:38 AM EST "Apple's Director of Engineering of Unix Technologies Jordan Hubbard spoke at LISA '08 last week," Arnold Kim reports for Mac Rumors. "LISA (or Large Installation System Administration Conference) is a technical conference targeted at engineers and system administrators," Kim explains. Hubbard's "most surprising revelation is a more specific target date for Apple's Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard): 1st Quarter 2009," Kim reports. Full article here . MacDailyNews Note: Apple's ...

Snow Leopard Coming in Q1 2009
TheAppleBlog — ... We knew we weren’t going to have to wait too long for Snow Leopard (10.6) to make its appearance on store shelves, but according to MacRumors, things just got a little more specific courtesy of a slide from a conference presentation. ...

Quad-Core iMacs in January, Snow Leopard Drops in Q1 of 2009?
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News — ... “When Apple first previewed Snow Leopard at the Worldwide Developers Conference 2008, they simply stated that Snow Leopard would ship “in about a year” from the announcement. A Q1 release would deliver it earlier than most had expected and makes it conceivable that we could see a demo or announcement at Macworld San Francisco 2009,” Arnold Kim explains for MacRumors. ...

Apple may release Snow Leopard as early as March '09
Ars Technica - Infinite Loop — ... , Apple's director of engineering of Unix technologies, Jordan Hubbard, revealed in a presentation to those attending the Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA) last week that Apple may expect to release the OS upgrade in the first quarter next year . Apple has released six major versions of Mac OS X in about six and a half years, though there was a year and a half between Panther and Tiger, and nearly two and a half years between Tiger and Leopard. Apple has said that Snow Leopard will include many under-the-hood changes that won't necessarily be obvious ...

Snow Leopard to pounce in Q1 2009?
MacUser — ... to ship in about a year.” Apple’s Q1 2009 runs from January to March 2009, which means a potential jump up of a couple months. Good news, but nothing to get worked up about. And don’t come crying to us if it doesn’t surface until June. For all we know, this could be a clever disinformation plan by Steve Jobs to root out leaks, using a George Kaplanesque “Jordan Hubbard” who will mysteriously never be heard from again. [via MacRumors] Primary category: Software Read - Comments (0) ...