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When Will OS X 10.5 Leopard Be Out?
Filed Under Computers & Tech on March 23, 2007 at 3:57 pm
I get asked this a lot. Outside of Apple I don’t think anyone knows. Just this week I’ve seen two conflicting reports citing ‘industry sources’, one predicting Leopard will ship in Mid April, the other predicting October. The only official line we have is ‘Spring 2007’. Depending on who’s definition of Spring you use that means any time before June 21st. That really is all we know. Any predictions you hear are just that, predictions. My regular readers have probably noticed that I like making Apple related predictions on my blog so that should I ever be right some day I can point back to the post and say ‘look – I told you so’. Sure, it’s childish but hey, I’m a bloke, and we don’t grow up, we just grow old …. so … lets do some predicting 🙂
Considering just how much Apple made fun of Microsoft for delaying Vista I really don’t think they want to let the ‘Spring’ date slide. However, from what I’ve been reading on various technology blogs it seems the latest developer build is still far from a final product so it appears Apple still have work to do. This makes it likely we’ll see Leopard right at the end of Spring. Apple moved their developer’s conference (WWDC) forward a few months to June 11-15. I think they did this for a reason and I think that reason is Leopard. My prediction is that Leopard will be announced at WWDC and will ship a few weeks after that.
[tags]Apple, OS X, Leopard, OS X 10.5[/tags]
I think WWDC this year will be the conference of the year.
They’re gonna launch…
Definites:
1) The iPhone
2) OSX 10.5 (which is, to be fair, pretty good)
3) iWork 07
4) iLife 07
Possibles:
5) Probably a new iPod with touchscreen controls
6) Hopefully a new iMac (it’s the oldest of their product lines)
7) Universal Binary of for CS3 Photoshop
and I’m sure there are a few others, but the first 4 are pretty much definites.
That’s a pretty good list there. I have a feeling you’re right about iLife and iWork because they probably use Leopard functionality so it wouldn’t make sense to release them before Leopard.
Off the top of my head I’d add a sub-notebook to the list of maybes and I’d promote a new iMac to the top of the list of possibles.
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