The Register registreert het bericht dat Apple haar volgende versie van MacOS op 24 Maart zal uitbrengen. Het langverwachte nieuwe operating system zal echter pas in Juli standaard worden meegeleverd bij nieuwe systemen. In de uiteindelijke versie zal de interface meer gelijken op het traditionele MacOS, in tegenstelling tot de publieke beta die al in omloop was. In het nieuwsbericht zijn nog wat andere interessante zaken te lezen:
Interestingly, that timeframe ties in very nicely with Apple's New York MacWorld Expo hardware release schedule and Motorola's volume shipment schedule for its PowerPC G4 Plus chip. We'd be very surprised if Apple doesn't bring back dual-processor configurations to the top of the Power Mac G4 line - ie. machines capable of harnessing MacOS X's multi-processing facilities - around that time.
It will also mark the arrival of most X-oriented applications, be they new ones or ports of existing Mac apps. Apple expects some to appear sooner, but it was clear from CEO Steve Jobs' MacWorld Expo keynote that the company isn't expecting too many of the 1200-odd programs written to take advantage of X's advanced OS features to appear before the summer.
MacOS X will ship for $129, said Jobs.