Does anyone have any inside info on Mac 10.6?

well 10.5.6 is code names Snow Leopard. go to http://www.macrumors.com and there is a topic on the home page, supposedly 10.5.6 will focus less on changes and more on speed and stability

@waterskier2007 – do you mean 10.5.6 (a point release of 10.5 aka Leopard) or 10.6 (a new OS release altogether)?

It is the new one, 10.6 that I am asking about, but he’s right in that it is currently code named “snow leopard”

Word is it’ll be intel-only. Time to retire the G5 and PowerBook G4. :(

no i meant 10.5.6 as playthebanjo predicted. i dont know anything about 1.6, i doubt if many people do. but regardless it is a far way off, because 10.5.6 is due out in january 09 so 10.6 will be much after that, i mean 10.4 got all the way to 10.4.11

umm….if anyone here does, posting it here would be a clear indication of not wanting to continue the flow of insider information.
But sure, everyone’s got rumours, if that’ll do.

No, but if they did they could PM me!

@waterskier (sic), dude, you really need to either learn more about Apple and Mac. Until then let others speak to this. Not to be rude, but your statements are so way off base, there’s no fixing them.

10.6 is “Snow Leopard”. 10.5.6 is certainly on the drafting board somewhere, but since Apple hasn’t even dropped 10.5.4 yet, there’s no one talking about it. Apple tends to release new major OS updates, on average, about every 18 months. How high the “dot number” reaches has no bearing on that whatsoever.

The rumor is that 10.6 will be for intel-only platforms and that it will not introduce any major new functionality.

John Gruber sums it up nicely…

In short, if you’ve ever wished that Apple would spend more time focusing on making existing parts of the OS work better rather than adding new features, this is going to be the release for you. Sounds great to me. A big part of the effort, from what I’m hearing, is unifying the various branches of OS X at Apple: Mac OS X, iPhone OS, Apple TV, etc.

There’s no good version number to describe a release like this. Based on previous Mac OS X version numbers, “10.5.5” would mean “the next minor bug-fix update after 10.5.4”, but “10.6” would mean “major new feature update”. This release is neither of those things. Mac OS X 10.1 is the most analogous fit, historically.

oh shoot i did mean 10.6 is rumored as snow leopard. my big mistake. i am pretty well versed on my apple rumors but i just wasnt thinking on the posting

[off topic] My Apologies! Robmandu would like to retract the ”(sic)” from his previous post.

Somehow, I thought the word “skier” was supposed to be spelled with two i‘s. (Not that it really matters, people can spell their names however they want).

just a question, what makes a post un-editable, is it time, or is it once someone posts after you?

5 minute time limit is all.

oh ok because i was going to go back and edit my original post, but i found i couldnt

There will be blood.