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

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Snow Leopard Release Set For Q1 2009 [Rumor]
Published 11/19/2008 by Elaine Chow at 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]
Published 11/19/2008 by Elaine Chow at 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?
Published 11/19/2008 by Seth Weintraub at 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
Published 11/19/2008 by SJC at 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
Published 11/19/2008 by Ben Stevens at 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
Published 11/19/2008 at 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
Published 11/19/2008 by Darrell Etherington at 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?
Published 11/19/2008 by Aviv at 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
Published 11/19/2008 by chris.foresman@arstechnica.com (Chris Foresman) at Apple Section - Ars Technica
... , 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?
Published 11/19/2008 by Dan Moren at 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) ...