According to MacRumors, Amazon is now taking pre-orders for Mac OS X Snow Leopard.Amazon is offering Snow Leopard at $29 and is slated for a September release as announced by Apple earlier this year at their World Wide Developers Conference.
Amazon has also issued an "upgrade path alert" warning customers that Snow Leopard is only available for users running Leopard on an Intel machine:
Please note, that only Apple OS X Leopard users are eligible for the Snow Leopard upgrade. Tiger & earlier OS users will need to purchase either versions of the upgraded Mac Box Set. Also, Snow Leopard will only run on intel-based Mac computers.
In addition, Amazon is also taking pre-orders for OS X Snow Leopard family packs, and Snow Leopard Server.
Apple is also offering Snow Leopard upgrades for $9.95 for those who purchase a qualifying computer or Xserve between June 8 and December 26, 2009, that does not include Mac OS X Snow Leopard from Apple or an Apple Authorized Reseller located in the United States or Canada, or the Apple Online store.
Is there any advantages to this. It seems that all they have done is make it faster and smaller, 10.5 is already fast enough for me.
I personally found my iMac slow on a number of tasks, so certainly mid-range level Macs should benefit nicely from the performance enhancements Snow Leopard offers.
Performance enhancements aside there will be additional functionality and improvements included so worth it for the new apps & features that will be available.
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Out of the box integration into Exchange 2007 for iCal, Mail, and Address Book. Finder has been rewritten. Proper 64bit addressing. Grand Central Dispatch. OpenCL. Quicktime X. ZFS support. Intel only binaries.
Come on. Just do a little research before you regurgitate the usual fanboy nonsense. It's more than a service pack. Anyone who says otherwise is either being deliberately ignorant or is just naieve.
10.5.7 was the "service pack" over 10.5.6.
Oh wait, I remember I'm on Neowin again. *sigh*
Snow Leopard is actually quite comparable to Windows 7, as both focus on optimizations and performance over new features and revamped looks.
Sure, call it service pack if you want, but then Apple is releasing some quite awesome service packs.
I really hope you don't believe that.
That's not how Microsoft versions their software. 3.0, 3.1, 3.11, 4.0, 4.1, etc. are full full versions. "Windows Vista Service Pack 2" is a service pack.
Some of you are so predictable.
I was being sarcastic... If Windows fanboys start calling Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard a service pack purely because its version number is a point increase they should take a look at Windows 7 and XP as well.
Hey, if Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard is a service pack using the same logic Windows 7 is aswel.
Ah, I thought so. My sarcasm detector is not fully functional after a "wake-and-bake."
If you buy a qualifying PC in a certain time, windows 7 upgrade IS FREE.
There mod, that good enough for you? I've not even bothered with the price differences that time? Eh?
There mod, that good enough for you? I've not even bothered with the price differences that time? Eh?
If you by a copy of Vista from Microsoft's online store you get a free 7 upgrade too.
There mod, that good enough for you? I've not even bothered with the price differences that time? Eh?
The upgrade is free, the shipping most likely isn't. The $10 10.6 up-to-date program is just the shipping cost.
There mod, that good enough for you? I've not even bothered with the price differences that time? Eh?
The upgrade is free, the shipping most likely isn't. The $10 10.6 up-to-date program is just the shipping cost.
Download free off windows update...?
There mod, that good enough for you? I've not even bothered with the price differences that time? Eh?
The upgrade is free, the shipping most likely isn't. The $10 10.6 up-to-date program is just the shipping cost.
Download free off windows update...?
Link?
50% buy
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mac-OS-Snow-Leopar...49249759&sr=8-2
Look at the bottom.
That is pretty funny.
If there will be a full version disc, would their be any benefits of a fresh install rather than an upgrade?
I'm usually more comfortable with a fresh install (windows habits
If there will be a full version disc, would their be any benefits of a fresh install rather than an upgrade?
I'm usually more comfortable with a fresh install (windows habits
An upgrade just means there is a previous OS X install on the start up disk, and in this case it needs to be a Leopard install. Tiger and below will require the full version.
It's not exactly a mystery.. they just omitted the binaries for PowerPC based systems.
The G5 is still a tower of power (i've got one sitting under my desk right here!) but the bottom line is that Apple don't make systems with PowerPC processors in them any more, haven't for a few years, and probably won't ever again. It was inevitable that this was going to happen!
Less than 3 years after selling G5 CPUs? That's a joke. I mean, Apple doesn't even try to hide the fact they're ripping people off.
If Apple had named their OS's after trees you'd still be asking the same question. They just chose something to name their products after. I think it's pretty cool. Wonder which version will be OSX Lion.
I suspect that they were originally just intended as codenames just as Microsoft does, but the names eventually worked themselves into the marketing of the OS.
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