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

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

http://www.macrumors.com/2008/11/18/mac-os-x-snow-leopard-10-6-due-in-q1-2009/

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 conference invited Apple's Jordan Hubbard to speak about the evolution of Mac OS X from large servers to embedded platforms. While technical readers may find the content of Hubbard's presentation slides (PDF) quite interesting, the most surprising revelation is a more specific target date for Apple's Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard): 1st Quarter 2009.



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.

Apple has said that they would be focusing on both quality and performance in Snow Leopard. In particular, Apple has made it clear that there will be efforts to improve support for multi-core processors and GPU processing. These improvements will help developers more efficiently use these capabilities that already ship in Macs.

now this would be awesome!

earlier than i expected

it is earlier than i expected also, but that's better

well, it's not hear yet.

but that sounds about right, though steve said 'in about a year" that's just a little earlier

that's a lot earlier

yeah, i suppose it is

a lot earlier. in fact, if it comes in january, then it would be out in 6 months instead of a year

oh jeez, that cuts a half of a year

yep , alot

which is what users have been trying to tell you. i guess you can't read very good

what are you talking about?

you kept saying that Q1 2009 was right on schedule and that you weren't surprised. but your an idiot, Q1 2009 is almost half the time

i am not an idiot!

when you say 6 months is on schedule with 1 year, then you're an idiot

anyways, at least we won't have to wait 6 extra months for snow leopard

yep, but it's not official that snow leopard will come out in Q1

it's not, but it's very possible

yep, i think snow leopard is gonna be great

i still don't think it will out that soon. can't wait to hear more about it though

you never know, but macworld seems to early

it does. but at least we'll get more info about it

more info will be good