TUAW rumour: Leopard realese date 20 October 2007

[Manj27]

TUAW reports an Australian Apple re-seller has a Leopard Launch Party on 20th October 2007 - after 7pm and "due to an Apple Embargo" the Leopard OS will be available to buy.

Link to Story (click apple sign) ->

 

[72930]

I don't buy it...but its got my heart beating a little faster...

 

[Taylor C]

This seems a bit fishy...I think this would be an awesome release date, though.

 

[Daniel75]

would be great... checked their website and it looks kinda real
http://frequency.com.au/sales/apple_products/leopard/party.php

 

[phillipjfry]

The 20th still feels too early. Maybe two weeks. I sure would love to be there friday when no Leopard showed up and everyone is waiting in line.

 

[Father Jack]

I do hope this is true ....

 

[Much Ado]

What's 6 days difference after so many months waiting anyway?

Don't wish the days away.

 

[AGhost]

From: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=839692&p=1
"here is a sneak peak of our leopard party page - dates mean nothing of course!"
Sorry, but another false alarm.

 

[72930]

What's 6 days difference after so many months waiting anyway?

Don't wish the days away.

The days are so much slower now we're so close...6 days is a hell of a long time!

 

[Eidorian]

Cute link in the first post.

I have some faith in TUAW but I won't bet anything on it.

 

[Peace]

From: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=839692&p=1
"here is a sneak peak of our leopard party page - dates mean nothing of course!"
Sorry, but another false alarm.

Ya it looks like Frequency just put up an arbitrary date to fill in space.The vendor himself said that.

Apple's site had a 26th date up for a few minutes so I'll go with that one even though at one time I thought it would be the 19th ( 20th in Sydney )

 

[twoodcc]

as much as i would love for this to be true....i don't think it is

 

[0007776]

I don't think it's happening the 20th. that only gives them 6 days to declare a GM and get all of the disks duplicated, I don't think that that is able to happen. I'm guessing developers get one last seed of the GM today or tomarow, followed by an announcement of two weeks until it ships coming on Tuesday with it shipping Tuesday the 30th.

 

[puckhead193]

i hope it doesn't come out on a monday, tuesday, Wednesday or Friday. I hope it comes out on a Thursday or a weekend so i can attend the party at the apple store

 

[adamfishercox]

I'm going with the Oct. 26th rumors.

 

[twoodcc]

i hope it doesn't come out on a monday, tuesday, Wednesday or Friday. I hope it comes out on a Thursday or a weekend so i can attend the party at the apple store

friday thru sunday would work for me, preferrably friday or saturday.

 

[72930]

I'm going with the Oct. 26th rumors.

If the new torrent out that claims to be the GM is real, I think this is very likely

 

[Peace]

If the new torrent out that claims to be the GM is real, I think this is very likely

Are you saying an internal build of OSX is on the torrent sites?

 

[twoodcc]

If the new torrent out that claims to be the GM is real, I think this is very likely

i haven't seen or looked for a torrent, but would it be worth looking up? i still think the date is the 26th

 

[xUKHCx]

apprently so, someone posted a link in on of the threads and i happened to read it before it was reported and subsequently deleted. I'm sure if you google you can find more.

 

[Peace]

Someone just lost their job.

 

[twoodcc]

apprently so, someone posted a link in on of the threads and i happened to read it before it was reported and subsequently deleted. I'm sure if you google you can find more.

thanks, i'll look into it

 

[Much Ado]

The days are so much slower now we're so close...6 days is a hell of a long time!

Can you imagine what would happen if Apple were to release an OS on Christmas Day?

Time would stop outright

 

[twoodcc]

Can you imagine what would happen if Apple were to release an OS on Christmas Day?

Time would stop outright

let's just look forward to the 26th.....don't give them any ideas

 

[Taylor C]

Just an FYI, this has been debunked.

Update 1pm: Um, perhaps not. As our commenters note, a post on these forums from one of the Frequency guys says this page is simply a mockup -- so far, "no date as yet," and the dates on the page "mean nothing." (Note to Frequency: When mocking up announcement party invites, DON'T USE FAKE DATES -- "October ###" would be just fine.) So Oct. 20th is as good as guess as anywhere else, but don't get your hopes up quite yet.