Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) Due in 1st Quarter of 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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Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard due in Q1 2009
D' Technology Weblog — ... 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. Source:→ Mac Rumors ...

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] ...

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] ...

Apple OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard coming 2009 Q1
PR News: — ... previewed at the Worldwide Developers Conference 2008, but a specific date was not given. News that Apple OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard will be coming in the first part of 2009 is much sooner that people had expected. Apple has said that the new Operating Software will focus on both quality and performance. Apple has been working hard to improve the support for multi-core processors and GPU processing, and hopefully Snow Leopard will be able to achieve just that. Source

Apple OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard coming Q1 2009?
SlashGear — ... at least a last-minute preview, could even take place at MacWorld 2009. Snow Leopard will improve multiple-core CPU utilization together with GPU processing, which the current range of Macs have the hardware for but lack tweaked software for making the most of.  Bringing forward the release is unlikely to be a decision unprompted by Microsoft’s OS plans.  The media has been full of generally positive talk of Windows 7, which Redmond intend to release in 2009. [via MacRumors] ...

OS X Snow Leopard coming in Q1 2009?
Boing Boing Gadgets — ... is a stabilization and future-proofing OS X release, and with 14 odd months since Leopard, a Q1 release would still indicate a baking time longer than average. I'm looking forward to Snow Leopard. Sure, it's not a flashy, feature-filled release like Leopard, but smaller program files, a svelter OS and performance gains for multi-processors are all appealing... especially since Leopard has felt sluggish on my ancient MacBook Pro ever since I upgraded from Tiger. Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 Due In Q1 2009 [Mac Rumors]

OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard could be launched in Q1 2009
I4U News — ... aka Snow Leopard at the WWDC08. Back then Apple stated the release date to be in one year. Since the WWDC 08 took place in June that would have meant Q2 of 2009. Now hopes of an earlier release of Snow Leopard will grow amongst the Apple community. Apple could even launch Snow Leopard at the MacWorld 2009 in January. More details on MacRumors . Rather than focusing primarily on new features, Snow Leopard will enhance the performance of OS X, and improve quality. Snow Leopard is optimized for multi-core processors, taps into the computing power of graphic processing ...

Snow Leopard, she is coming in Q1 2009
CrunchGear — ... Can’t wait for the next iteration of OS X? Well, it’s coming in Q1 2009 which means you still have about 2 more months to sit on your hands and think happy thoughts. Apple’s Director of Engineering of Unix Technologies Jordan Hubbard said that the OS would launch Q1 2009 which places it in the January-March timeframe. ...

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard poderá chegar no 1º trimestre de 2009
MacMagazine — ... da Apple até então para o lançamento da nova geração do seu sistema operacional era “de cerca de um ano”, isto é, ele chegaria por volta da metade do ano que vem. Se ele for lançado mesmo no Q1 de 2009, a Macworld Expo San Francisco, em janeiro, poderá ser palco de demonstrações e anúncios mais profundos do Mac OS X 10.6. Com o lançamento do Microsoft Windows 7 previsto para 2009, a batalha tem tudo para ser muito interessante. [Via: MacRumors.] ...