Where's the official poll for release day? lol. I call the 24th, just feels right lol.
Well, I think I may leave Snow Leopard for Mt Lion. Snow Leopard is still the apex of the Mac OS
Depends on what you need. Tiger is the Apex as far as I am concerned, all the power of OS X, classic environment for legacy apps, supports both PPC and Intel. This Cat had it all.
All the Cats since then have been taking away, I understand why, for Apple Legacy is a dirty word, and we should all be happy for zippy new systems, but for those of us with the odd PPC machine, Tiger rocks.
No I don't live in the dark ages, my main machines have lion on, but my PPC Macs live on in Tiger world...
If you ordered your Mac after June 10th (I guess that is the correct date...) ML upgrade will be free for you.
Thus, Apple may not announce a release date until 2 or 3 days in advance, because they may not be certain that it's 100% ready until then. (It sounded to me like the GM still had some minor bugs... personally, I'm running Beta 4 and haven't noticed any strange behavior at all.)
Well since you want to get technical, new Macs will actually be shipping with Mountaion Lion. So yes Mountain Lion will be shipping to customers and stores as well as downloading.