Q: El Capitan

I wouldn't expect to see anything before 9am PDT, but that's just a guess.

Still 20 hours left in the day in Cupertino.

You're welcome.

Its close to a Drum Roll release! If it's a 9am PDT release....that is just 1/2 hr+ away! 

I read 1:00 PM EST:  That estimate was NOT from Apple.

Conversely you could close your eyes and tap your ruby slippers 3 times and say "There's no place like Cupertino!" but I think security will detain you unless you show valid ID in the event you wind up at the front gates of One Infinite Loop.

David Farah wrote:

 

Its close to a Drum Roll release! If it's a 9am PDT release....that is just 1/2 hr+ away! 

Good luck trying to get it as there are going to be a ton of people

waiting for the moment!!

So sad!   It's after 9am and no availability! Bummer!

it's 12:03 NYC time so I can get a sammich and come back to work and see if 1:00 is really really, but if it is that server is going to be slammed with traffic at 1:00 I'll wait until after the smoke clears which may be a few days or weeks. Plus I get to see what broke on these forums! Hindsight is 20/20 but my backups are up-to-date either way.

Time Machine is hard at work right now backing up 2gb but clicking on the Update button every so often. I am ready to be apart of the overload!

What may likely happen is the first hour or two may be cool but then

download requests will accelerate exponentially after that and return to reasonable

download times in a couple days.

What may happen as a predecessor is an El Capitan site will pop up in the

OSX discussions (or may be simultaneous).

It seems to me typically new releases are always at 10:00AM Cupertino time- and with that, realistically not all switches get flipped untiil 10:10 or 10:15.

Patience is a virtue.

Tick tock..tick tock..glad I am multi-tasking!