When will Mac OS X Leopard be released?

[Shawn Erickson]

On Oct 1, 2007, at 6:42 AM, Nils Holland wrote:

> On Oct 1, 2007, at 15:03 , Finlay Dobbie wrote:
>
>> Oh and
>>
>> http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/06/11leopard.html
>>
>> "Scheduled to ship in October"
>
> Keep in mind that just on the 21st of September, a new preview seed  
> of Leopard was released to (paying) developers outside of Apple.  
> Nobody knows if this will be the last preview version of (because  
> of problems that get discovered) additional preview releases are  
> required. And then, once a final version has actually been reached,  
> it'll take some time to get the product to manufacturing and then  
> distributed to all the local Apple Stores and dealers. While I  
> don't know how much time that process alone would take - given that  
> Apple's not really at that point yet anyway - I wouldn't be  
> surprised if the public release date slips a further bit and  
> October isn't quite a realistic goal.

Apple has released developer seeds only 3 weeks before shipping (2.5  
weeks IIRC). So a developer preview released last week or even one  
released this coming week wouldn't really imply a delay.

-Shawn