Apple confirms: Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard shipping August 28th

by Parm Mann on 24 August 2009, 14:21

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Apple has today confirmed last week's rumours by announcing that its next major operating system - Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard - will officially hit retail this Friday, August 28th.

For existing Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard users, the software will be available as an upgrade priced at £25 for a single user license or £39 for a five-user family pack license. Users of Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger, or earlier releases, will be able to upgrade by purchasing the new Mac Box Set, priced at £129.

Pre-orders are now being taken at the Apple Store.

Official press release: Apple to Ship Mac OS X Snow Leopard on August 28

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Posted by Biscuit - Mon 24 Aug 2009 14:29
worlds most advanced OS…
How can it be the worlds most advanced if it only works with specific hardware. Being advanced is surely hand in hand with compatability?

i will be getting it none the less as my macbook is due for a reinstall and a wipe
Posted by Arthran - Mon 24 Aug 2009 14:37
i know this is flamebait but, I love how some mac users (note the SOME!) go around bashing win7 for being expensive, when what is essentially a couple of service packs (yes i know 10.6 inst JUST a service pack, but its not more than 2 service packs worth of upgrades) costs £129 if you don't already have the most up to date version. Where as we'll be paying £65 for win7, flat….
If it was a complete new OS, it would be OS v11, its a major revision sure, but thats what it is, a revision.

*goes off to grumble more about big companies fleecing their customers*
Posted by aidanjt - Mon 24 Aug 2009 14:40
Biscuit
worlds most advanced OS…
How can it be the worlds most advanced if it only works with specific hardware. Being advanced is surely hand in hand with compatability?
My thoughts exactly.
Posted by Gordy - Mon 24 Aug 2009 14:42
Snow leapard is hardly a service pack it is a massive under the hood upgrade to the os x system. I preordered a copy of Win7 for £50 and I've no issues with that cost at all. I think that's about right.

Anyway, I cannot believe we are paying the same in gbp as dollars, but that's always the way. Interesting there is no discount for HE users.

The family pack at £39 seems pretty good value for money tho.

As for supported hardware being intel only. I agree it would be great if it supported g4/g5's etc. But if they go down that route then you get into the situation Windows is in today with it being a nightmare to create new versions for. It's not like leopard is bad anyway.
Posted by aidanjt - Mon 24 Aug 2009 14:48
Agreed, and Apple did strip out a lot of stale crufty bits too.

But still, supporting generic/arbitrary hardware is hardly an insurmountable task, BSD does, as does Linux, and Windows.

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