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Apple: Snow Leopard release in Q1 2009

By November 19, 2008No Comments

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. 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.

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.

Read — PDF Presentation



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Hi my name is Josh Lam and I'm from the city-state of Hong Kong. Realizing there was more to explore than this city, my goal is to visit all 193 countries in the world by using a combination of credit card points and airline miles to travel better for less.

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