Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Shipping in September: $29 for Leopard Users
Apple today announced that Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard will launch in September and will be priced at only $29 for current OS X 10.5 Leopard users. Alternatively, a $49 family pack will also be available. Meanwhile, Tiger users with Intel machines will be able to purchase a Mac Box Set containing Snow Leopard, iLife '09, and iWork '09 for $169 for a single license or $229 for a family pack.
"We've built on the success of Leopard and created an even better experience for our users from installation to shutdown," said Bertrand Serlet, Apple's senior vice president of Software Engineering. "Apple engineers have made hundreds of improvements so with Snow Leopard your system is going to feel faster, more responsive and even more reliable than before."
Apple offered a preview of Snow Leopard at today's Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, highlighting many of the next-generation operating system's features. Apple touted a streamlined installation process (45% faster and 6 GB smaller) and speed improvements for a number of applications including Mail, Safari 4, and Spotlight. Snow Leopard also brings support for Microsoft Exchange Server to Mail, iCal, and Address Book.Finally, Apple promoted Snow Leopard's ability to use Grand Central Dispatch and OpenCL standards to allow applications to more fully harness the power of multi-core processors and to take advantage of graphics processing power for general purpose computing.
Apple also announced the launch of Mac OS X Server Snow Leopard, scheduled for release in September at a price of $499, including unlimited client licenses on Mac, Windows, and Linux.
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I'm still wary of the upgrade game but $29 is an easy sell for current Leopard users.
Yeah, me too. I'm wondering how this will work. Will they make you show a receipt?
I'm curious to see how working in an Exposéd window is. Sounds like it could be very nice.
But... "no news is bad news" re resolution-independence? I can see waiting for the next BIG update (10.7 Stoat) before creating a whole new UI. But I'd love to have the current one be res-independent, after so many years of partial progress in that direction. (Or maybe "working in an Exposéd window" IS a sign of good news re res-independence?)
* OK, maybe the price is my favorite thing.
Yeah, me too. I'm wondering how this will work. Will they make you show a receipt?
??? That doesn't matter.
It's simply up to you to buy what you need. If you try to install the Upgrade disk without Leopard it just won't work. Seems easy enough.
EDIT: Or it could run some machine ID check to validate the install. (just for clarification of a later post of mine :))
Upgrading from Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger.
If your Intel-based Mac is running Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger, purchase the Mac Box Set (when available), which is a single, affordable package that includes Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard; iLife ’09, with the latest versions of iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, iWeb, and iDVD; and iWork ’09, Apple’s productivity suite for home and office including Pages, Numbers, and Keynote.
$49 for the family pack. Giving it away. I was going to wait this time but now, who cares.
Quite true. It's disposable income for the single user and family.Yeah, me too. I'm wondering how this will work. Will they make you show a receipt?
The installer will do a check similar to the "bad machine" check it already does. What worries me is what about a clean hard drive.There are hoops you can jump through using upgrade discs on Windows but I don't want to experience that from Apple.
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