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Amazon Begins Accepting Pre-Orders for Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Saturday August 1, 2009 8:50 am PDT by Eric Slivka

Several MacRumors readers have reported that Amazon has begun taking pre-orders for Apple's forthcoming Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Amazon is currently offering Snow Leopard at Apple's announced price of $29 for OS X Leopard users, and the listing notes that while Snow Leopard is slated for a September release, no official release date has been announced.

Amazon has also prominently featured an "Upgrade Path Alert" notifying customers that the upgrade is available only for Intel computers currently running OS X Leopard.

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.

Amazon has also begun offering pre-orders of OS X Snow Leopard family packs, Mac Box Sets bundling Snow Leopard with iLife '09 and iWork '09, and Snow Leopard Server.

- Mac OS X version 10.6 Snow Leopard ($29.00)
- Mac OS X Snow Leopard Family Pack (5-User) ($49.00)
- Mac Box Set - (with Snow Leopard) ($169.00)
- Mac Box Set Family Pack with Snow Leopard (5-User) ($229.00)
- Mac OS X Server version 10.6 Snow Leopard ($499.00)

Note: Purchases through these Amazon links benefit MacRumors financially.
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pilotError
33 months ago
Woke up to an Amazon email that is announcing pre-order availability of the Snow Leopard upgrade, the Family Pack Upgrade and the corresponding Box Sets.

The Snow Leopard books are also listed for pre-order.
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easy4lif
33 months ago
placed mine at 5:30 this morning.
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NevadaJack
33 months ago

Woke up to an Amazon email that is announcing pre-order availability of the Snow Leopard upgrade, the Family Pack Upgrade and the corresponding Box Sets.

The Snow Leopard books are also listed for pre-order.


Pre-ordered with $25 credit at Amazon so a net $4!:D
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AidenShaw
33 months ago
Free shipping too...
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Juo100
33 months ago
Not available on the UK website yet. :(
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kinless
33 months ago
I'd love the box set but it's getting a little late in the year for that. iLife '10 around the corner?
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thedommer
33 months ago
Ive only owned my mac since 10.5 so this might be a dumb question but can I buy this through apple.com and download it? Or do I have to go into a mac store.

dom
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UngratefulNinja
33 months ago

Ive only owned my mac since 10.5 so this might be a dumb question but can I buy this through apple.com and download it? Or do I have to go into a mac store.

dom


You can buy it through Apple, but you can't download it. You have to get the disc :)
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talkingfuture
33 months ago
Must be getting close, I wonder when Apple will start allowing pre-orders?
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macintoshtoffy
33 months ago
I hope customers aren't forced to have Leopard on their systems already because that is really going to bugger up those of us who wish to do a clean install or re-install it without needing to first re-install Leopard.

I guess I'll be forced to get the boxed pack if Apple chooses to go down the stupid path of detecting the previously installed operating system.

Edit: The above reason is why I voted it down; time for Apple to get its act together.
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