[Chase817]

TUAW has received some information that suggests Apple may be working to seed developers with an early build of Mac OS X 10.6 at this year's WWDC. 10.6 will not include any new significant features from 10.5; instead, Apple is focusing solely on "stability and security."

We have also learned that OS X 10.6 may go gold master by December 2008 in an effort to start shipping it in January '09 at Macworld Expo. Mac OS X 10.6 will be a milestone release for Apple, as it will leave the PowerPC behind: a fully 64-bit clean, Intel-only Mac OS X.

This information makes us wonder about universal applications -- how much longer will they exist? With Apple leaving pre-Intel Macs behind before the end of the decade, this could mark the end of the Intel transition, as Apple (and presumably many third-party developers) will be focusing only on the newer Mac architecture.

[Via TUAW]

Vote for the name you think it will be at the top.

[Aiyo]

It will be named the greatest animal in the world: Aiyo

[screamforme02]

i Heard Snow leopard

[ultimatexpka]

its definitely going to be the

LIGER

[Apple iPie]

How "clever" could u be,adding CATTERPILLAR to ur poll?

[Aiyo]

lol cheeseburger

[DoerrFan]

Roflcat.

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

Polecat?

[desepticon]

snow leopard? but they already had leopard. kinda confusing like mac in the mid 90's with the 89009/09909 or 987898/098098 computers

[Chase817]

I think it may be Cougar