Snow Leopard for Q1 2009

During the recent Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA '08), Jordan Hubbard, Apple's Director of Engineering of Unix Technologies, spoke about the evolution of Mac OS X from large servers to embedded platforms. But the most surprising information was the announcement of a more specific target date for the release of Apple's Mac OS X 10.6 (aka Snow Leopard): Q1 2009.
We are convinced that this information is true, and in addition it would allow apple to release its new OS month ahead of Microsoft Windows 7 expected to arrive mid 2009. With the improvement of multi-core management as well as the support for GPGPU, Snow Leopard should bring a real boost for the recently released multi-core-based Macs. AS Mac and PC are now based on a very similar hardware, users and customers will finally be able to evaluate the true power of Mac OS X and applications developed for it when comparing to the hardware resource draining Vista, or even the forth coming windows 7.