Rumor: Jaguar To Roar In Early?


Our favorite dead-accurate scoop site SpyMac has predicted that Jaguar, originally slated for September, will now ship no later than August 22.

SpyMac also say that the recent release of 10.1.5 was meant for MacWorld New York in July, but was shifted forward.

Analysis: Our take is there is no particular advantage in Apple shipping Jaguar slightly earlier, while the allegedly early release of 10.1.5 makes only slightly more sense. A number of problematic bugs have been found in 10.1.5, detailed extensively elsewhere, but this wouldn't be a first for an Apple (or any other company's) OS release.

As Jaguar's features are an open secret, we guess that Steve could simply announce at MWNY that it will ship "in 4 weeks". But again, so what?

Unless, of course, Jaguar ships with some very new, very nice, Quartz Extremish-type hardware. Which also, coincidentally, ship 4 weeks after MW.

G5 anyone?