UPDATED: Snow Leopard To Ship Early — Aug. 28 Release Date

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UPDATE: Apple’s US and Canadian stores also briefly said August 28th will be the release date. The stores have now been changed back to “September.”

Though it might lack the wow factor of Leopard or revolutionary features like Tiger brought to bear, Mac OS X Snow Leopard is still going to be completely amazing. Some times tuning up everything under the hood is a lot more important than changing the icons in the Dock.

And, from what we can tell, we’ll all (well, some of us) finally get to enjoy a fully 64-bit OS, advanced multicore support via Grand Central, OpenCL, and the rest very soon. The Apple Store UK yesterday listed an August 28 release date for the little upgrade that could (it’s since changed to “September,” but I think that’s just trying to shove the cat back in the bag), so get ready to spend next weekend benchmarking your machines.

Via MacRumors

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