Now while this piece of news is still in rumour stage, it has been backed up by hard evidence (CSI-style) to make it potentially meaningful. Word has it that Snow Leopard, the latest version of Mac OS X (10.6 to be exact) will be released in the first quarter of 2009.
This piece of insider info comes courtesy of Apple’s Director of Engineering of Unix Technologies, Jordan Hubbard who presented at LISA ’08 (Large Installation System Administration Conference). One of his presentation slides showed the release date for OS X 10.6 to be “Q1 2009”.
This new release date is earlier than was initially expected of Apple, who cagily said that it would be released in “about a year” at the Worldwide Developers Conference, in June 2008.
Snow Leopard is reported to have noticeably increased quality and performance with improved support for multi-core processors and GPU processing.
Source: MacRumours