Reports suggest late-October Leopard release

Tom Krazit | Oct 05, 2007

Apple said the next Mac OS X version will arrive in October, and two reports out say the company's going to use as many days of this month as it can before letting Leopard loose.

Both AppleInsider and ThinkSecret reported Thursday that Leopard is tracking for a October 26 release, which will be the last Friday of the month. In April, Apple delayed the release of Leopard from June to October, citing the need to get the iPhone out on time.

When Apple released Tiger in 2005, it also chose the last Friday of the month to start selling the new operating system. About 200 people lined up outside downtown San Francisco's Apple store to get their hands on the new operating system that day, and a similar crowd will probably be back this time around.

Leopard, formally known as Mac OS X 10.5, will come with a new set of updates to the look and feel of the Mac desktop screen, as well as new features like Time Machine and a production version of Boot Camp. It's currently available for preorder at Amazon.com for US$129 for a single license or US$199 for a family license.

This post originally appeared in CNET Crave.

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