snow leopard to be shown at macworld 2009?

by Justin Horn on Dec 18th, 2008 @ 2:41 pm

The Guardian is hinting that Apple’s senior vice president Phil Schiller is going to present Snow Leopard at Macworld 2009.

Apple and its partners have been privately dropping hints to developers that its upcoming release of its Mac OS X operating system, dubbed Snow Leopard, will ship earlier than expected – and it will debut two new technologies that promise to speed up software without demanding any changes to the hardware.

The first technology, Grand Central, is designed to make better use of the Intel processors that sit inside the current range of Macs. The other, OpenCL, could have a more dramatic effect on performance for some programs as it will tap into the power of graphics processors (GPUs) that now goes to waste.

So these latest rumors say it is shipping ahead of schedule, but since there was never really a public schedule I don’t get it. The only thing we’ve heard thus far is that it would be shipping in the 1st quarter of 2009, which seems very likely to hold true. If they are truly “ahead of schedule” then I would assume a late January / early February release. If not then probably won’t happen until March.

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[via Macrumors]

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  1. MajorMac
    December 20th, 2008 4:40 am

    From what I’ve seen they’re trying to put in a 3D interfaced desktops, if you rummage around you can find genuine crude sketchings of what it will look like. Apple’s always been ahead of the competition moves us forward into better user interfaces. Hopefully this is one of those good things

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