I think the consensus is that Leopard will be released around Halloween. That's a scary thought! But who knows for sure. What's your guess?
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When will Leopard be released?
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I think it'll be the 4th week of October, so as not to conflict with Halloween celebrations in the USA and elsewhere.
Halloween, because to make up for all the slipups and delays with Leopard, I want the Apple crew to dress up when they announce it. Think about it; Steve Jobs as Dracula, Phil Schiller as Frankenstein...that would be awesome. Or failing that, just Steve Jobs with a bedsheet over his turtleneck with poorly cut eyeholes to liven up the Halloween season.
So people who get a goodie bag by buying it on release night get sweets too, right?
they get a sweet OS
I hope Apple marketing uses your quote if it does ship around Halloween.
It will very likely be after the twentieth, at least.
As far as I know, golden master status has not been reached.. meaning that we are at the very least 4 weeks off. It generally takes a month from the time the OS reaches golden master for product to ship.
Halloween-ish is a good bet.
As far as I know, golden master status has not been reached.. meaning that we are at the very least 4 weeks off. It generally takes a month from the time the OS reaches golden master for product to ship.
Halloween-ish is a good bet.
I don't believe that there is any correlation between apple retail's printer promotion and the release of the operating system. It's not like there will be a discounted leopard w/ a new machine promotion to replace it.. leopard will be installed, or a drop kit will be included with every new mac at that point regardless of any promotions.
Since we're now 2/3 through September and there's still no release candidate on ADC, I'm starting to doubt whether we'll see Leopard in October at all. That is unless Apple intends to go gold without any final feedback from the developer community.
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hopefully since its version 10.5 it will release on october 5th... but that's just hopeful wishing
hopefully since its version 10.5 it will release on october 5th... but that's just hopeful wishing
Since we just have news that it's moved from 527/528a to 528d, I'd say it's very close to release candidate.
Let's hope so. I'm running 9A528d now. But the fact still remains that the seeds are coming unusually few and far between at this stage in the release cycle.
To my memory, about 1 month.
It looks like they're doing a lot of small internal releases just to accelerate things. They've probably found a lot of annoying bits and they've got everyone from testers to office assistants testing it.