“Apple may be on the verge of shipping its Mac OS X Snow Leopard, if one user’s claims of receiving an install of… the next-generation operating system with his Mac mini are to be believed,” MacNN reports.
“The user claims to have received the Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard install DVD, then next version of Apple’s operating system, when he purchased his Mac mini in Japan,” MacNN reports. “First noted by the Japanese version of Engadget, the photos and screenshots apparently confirm various slip-ups by Apple indicating that Snow Leopard is ready to ship very soon — perhaps as early as next week.”
Full article here.
Eric Slivka reports for Mac Rumors, “Meanwhile, several readers report that the status of their OS X Snow Leopard Up-to-Date pre-orders have changed to ‘Prepared for Shipment’ and continue to indicate a shipping date of ‘By August 28th.'”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
Well that’s snappy. It’s out and not even announced yet.
Try that MS.
My Snow Leopard pre-order status report indicates September as the ship date.
It must be a conspiracy.
So, if it’s so imminent, then why can’t I pre-order on Apple.ca yet? Not that I’m unbelievably anxious or anything…..just hurry the heck up!
Let’s see. Amazon software best seller list (in the top 50):
#2 Mac OS X version 10.6 Snow Leopard
#4 Mac OS X Snow Leopard Family Pack
#26 Mac OS X Version 10.5.6 Leopard
#34 Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade
#37 Mac Box Set
Even
#25 Quicken WillMaker Plus 2009
beats Windoze 7.
But reality bites back:
#1 Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 (for XP and Vista)
What’s the build?
Here we go with “imminent” again…
Eminently imminent!
I’m reveling in the imminence of it all!
it’s imminently schnappy!
I’ll get it as soon as it becomes available, whenever.
I don’t know whether these alleged premature Snow Leopard ejaculations are rumors based on fabrications, or slip-ups by Apple. I would greatly prefer the former, because that would mean that Apple is maintaining its control and discipline over product manufacturing and distribution. Apple is most successful when it plans in detail and executes by the numbers. Apple has received the most criticism (e.g., Mobile Me) when it pushes out a product in a hurry to meet a deadline or preempt a competitor.
No worries here – I have the Amazon pre-order set it. It will arrive as earliest as possible….whenever that is!
Why are pictures of all of these accidentally-released-into-the-wild and rumored prototype builds and so forth always so blurred out and apparently taken with a less than 1 megapixel camera at the least optimal angle? And who in the hell buys a Mac Mini with an “old” operating system less than a week or two before the release of the new one???!!!
@DogGone
It still has to ship, you know that I can walk to an Apple Store and pickup my copy without having to wait for any parcel delivery. But then again, what is the hurry, first I will wait for all the reports of the software that got deprecated. I relay on over more than 60 software packages and utilities, some will not work, you can bet on that. So the prudent thing to do is see the experience of all you early adopters and ascertain my own transitional move. Remember, Carbon has been deprecated in a large extent, so I will be cautious.
Could be imminent, but I’m not adamant.
Japan ? … Naturally, our tomorrow is already their yesterday …
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BC
isn’t it so nice that the update runs you a measly $29?
My up to date order shows shipping date as “September” , status as “not yet shipped”.
One other small thing…provided these pictures are genuine, in that they are first of the disc itself and then screen capture shots of the install on this person’s computer, why are the screen capture shots in Japanese while the writing on the disc face is in English? Is this BS, which I strongly suspect? Or, and this in a sense is much worse to me, one set of these pictures is bogus, thrown in to add punch to the story? I know that sounds cynical, and who cares, right? I wouldn’t, except that MacRumors has already shown a capacity for doing this sort of thing. Remember the whole “Steve Jobs car sighted on Apple campus early and he’s potentially back to work” thing, where they used an old, previously posted shot of his car parked all askew? The one that so many people called BS on that they printed a “correction”? If this is the same case, well…I’d be disappointed. It might not matter to them or anyone else if I did so, but RSS subscriptions are REALLY easy to cancel…