Apple details Snow Leopard Up-to-Date Programme

by Parm Mann on 16 June 2009, 15:00

Tags: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL)

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With a new version of Mac OS X around the corner, you might be holding out on purchasing a new Mac system.

As it turns out, there's no need to wait as Apple has you covered with its recently-unveiled Mac OS X Snow Leopard Up-to-Date Programme.

As part of the programme, all customers who purchase a qualifying Mac system between June 8th and December 26th '09 will be able to upgrade to Mac OS X Snow Leopard at a cost of $9.95 (£7.95).

Apple expects Mac OS X Snow Leopard to become available this September, and will be pricing the software at $29 for a single user upgrade, or $49 for a five-user family pack.

Details on how to apply for the Mac OS X Snow Leopard Up-to-Date Programme can be found at Apple.com.

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Posted by ShALLaX - Sun 12 Jul 2009 19:54
It'll only cost $29.95 off the shelf anyway (providing you already have a copy of Leopard). Go Apple! Though I guess they realised no one would pay full price for just a maintenance release.
Posted by Steve B - Sun 12 Jul 2009 23:15
But it's not really just a maintenance release…?
Posted by ShALLaX - Mon 13 Jul 2009 00:46
It absolutely is just a maintenance release. There's next to no new functionality that the user will see (Quicktime X is all that springs to mind). They have basically rewritten applications to run more efficiently on the Intel platform (ditched PPC code) and added Grand Central to allow for easier programming of parallelism.

Their tag line is even “The world's most advanced operating system. Finely tuned.” It's just Leopard, but optimised. Just in the same way that Windows 7 is essentially Vista, but with various usability changes (the kernel code is almost exactly the same).
Posted by TheAnimus - Mon 13 Jul 2009 09:13
kernel in windows 7 has changed quite considerably.
http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/Mark-Russinovich-Inside-Windows-7/
it is still a ‘toc’ release, rather than a ‘tic’

But look at the changes in the toc release of snow leopard, its a service pack, GCD should simply be a free download for older versions too. Asking a developer to use what is little more than a library that manages a thread pool (because on all OSes thread creation is expensive, on BSD/Linux espesually so, as they are encombered like proccesses). (compare this to something like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_Extensions)

OpenCL is a more intresting technology imo, but again in the same way with Cuda, do we really want to explain these problems in a C like syntax with C like thinking!