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Prediction: Snow Leopard release date is June 8
This all started with two co-workers who sought my advice this past week on when to buy a new MacBook. I thoughtfully advised them to wait until Snow Leopard came out so they would be sure to get all the promised speed benefits of the latest and greatest version of Mac OS X. Unfortunately, ...
Two possible dates for Apple's WWDC 2009 emerge
Two possible dates for Apple's WWDC 2009 emerge
appleinsider.com — Event bookings for the San Francisco Moscone Center indicate that Apple may be planning its annual Worldwide... Developer Conference in either mid-May or early June. (more) Two possible dates for Apple's WWDC 2009 emerge
Snow Leopard goes 64 Bit, to be released on June 8th with Stevo?
Snow Leopard goes 64 Bit, to be released on June 8th with Stevo?
9to5mac.com — World of Apple is publishing (naughty, naughty) Apple's Snow Leopard release notes, below, which include a new... Quicktime Player UI, a new Cocoa Desktop, Info Window and Contextual Menus and of course the new Safari 4 Web Browser.  All good news, ... (more) Snow Leopard goes 64 Bit, to be released on June 8th ...
June 8: The day Steve Jobs returns?
June 8: The day Steve Jobs returns?
apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com — Steve Jobs in June 2008, no caption The “end of June” is how long Steve Jobs said... his medical leave would run when he announced in January that he was temporarily stepping down as Apple’s ( AAPL ) CEO. But David Zeiler, writing on another subject for ... (more) June 8: The day Steve Jobs returns?
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Snow Leopard goes 64 Bit, to be released on June 8th with Stevo?
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence — ... David Zeller from the Baltimore Sun is reporting that he believes that Snow Leopard will be released on June 8th.  The logic (and it makes some sense to us) is that the only big summer opening at Moscone Center is a huge block from June 6-12 that is currently entitled "Corporate Meeting".  We know a company that likes to keep secrets.  That would put the Snow Leopard announcement (and the return of El Jobso?) at June 8.  Can we get  a witness? ...

Two possible dates for Apple's WWDC 2009 emerge
AppleInsider — ... When contacted about the matter by telephone last week, representatives for the Moscone Center unsurprisingly refused to provide further details on the booking, claiming they had "no further information" on who the corporate client was. With well under three months separating that date -- the approximate lead time between Apple's announcement of past WWDC events and their actual start date -- the booking carried with it a significant amount of doubt. However, the Baltimore Sun points out today that a second "corporate meeting" was added to the convention center's calendar ...

Apple to release Mac OS X Snow Leopard on June 8th?
MacDailyNews — ... posted online... I noticed [a] generic 'Corporate meeting' scheduled for Moscone West [the traditional WWDC venue] -- for June 6-June12. That’s the second week of June, the correct number of days, and ends on a Friday (WWDC nearly always ends on a Friday)," Zeiler reports. "I deduced that we’d see Snow Leopard on June 8 because the keynote typically is delivered on a Monday, and that’s the moment at WWDC when Apple would announce a new operating system." More in the full article here .

May or June? WWDC '09 speculation is off and running
Infinite Loop — ... , a tipster told the site that May 16-22 had been booked as a "corporate meeting" sometime last week, but another report cropped up today from the Baltimore Sun that said the same thing of June 6-12. ...

Apple Rumors: Snow Leopard in June, Touch Screen Netbook This Year
Wired: Gadget Lab — ... Prediction: Snow Leopard release date is June 8 [Baltimore Sun] ...

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