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Snow Leopard Debuts Friday
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Snow Leopard is coming out this Friday
[ Edited: 29 August 2009 01:05 AM by DawnTreader ]Signature
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Interesting to see that if you’re upgrading from Tiger, you get a full OSX for $169, and you get the latest iLife and iWork thrown in. So your Leopard costs only $12 over the cost of the latest iLife & iWork. Hackintosh Netbook folk get a free MS Office replacement and Exchange integration thrown in. And cheapskates can steal the whole thing, with no product activation. Where does that leave Windows 7 as a choice?
Slightly annoying to see that it’s a full 25% more expensive in the UK. C’mon Apple.
But nice to see the Apple store struggling under the load!
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Edit: Unnecessary post.
Note to self: It is higly recomended to think before doubting of others.
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Interesting to see that if you’re upgrading from Tiger, you get a full OSX for $169, and you get the latest iLife and iWork thrown in. So your Leopard costs only $12 over the cost of the latest iLife & iWork.
It’s a good deal for Tiger users and further extends the take-up of iWork and the latest version of iLife.
I’m just happy for the $49 price on the Family Pack. I hope there’s sufficient stock at Apple retail stores come Friday. There’s often an early run on the store’s inventory.
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Reminder: if you bought a new (or refurbished) Mac after June 9th, you qualify for a free ypgrade to Snow Leopard ($10.50 for shipping). See if you qualify here.
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I just ordered Snow Leopard and the Apple online store indicates it will be delivered on Friday. Free shipping, too!
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here’s the first review of Snow Leopard. Not super in depth, but hits the highlights.
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Just ordered the box set with iLife and iWork updates. Like DT said, my confirmation email states “delivers on Aug 28th.” Also ordered a Mac version of an old, favorite Sid Meier game, Pirates!
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Just ordered the box set with iLife and iWork updates. Like DT said, my confirmation email states “delivers on Aug 28th.” Also ordered a Mac version of an old, favorite Sid Meier game, Pirates!
Wow! You did some shopping.
The box set is a screaming deal compared to the costs of buying each component separately.
I’m hopeful my Snow Leopard family pack will be delivered on Friday so I can upgrade the Macs in the house that can use it. I’m hopeful the performance improvements on the updated Time Machine are as reported.
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At a $29 price point, I’m seriously thinking about getting Snow Leopard myself.
Two questions still have to be answered for me. Will the OS be significantly faster even though my system right now won’t support OpenCL, and won’t support H.264 GPU acceleration? My Radeon 2600 should be able to support both, in theory. And will Snow Leopard be as compatible with all my apps, including my Rosetta-required ones, as Leopard?
No hard answers yet, of course, so I’ll probably wait for benchmarks, reviews, etc. first.
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will Snow Leopard be as compatible with all my apps, including my Rosetta-required ones, as Leopard?
There is a Copatibility List online. Bad thing is, the page is mostly unavailable.
Thank Google there is a Cache available.
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I’m hopeful the performance improvements on the updated Time Machine are as reported.
Still wishing I could use Time Machine with an Airport Base Station and not just with Time Capsule. :-(
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Some reviews (in reverse order of usefulness/entusiasm):
Mossberg - (not a full time Mac user) “it isn?t a big breakthrough for average users .. even at $29”
Orlowski/Register - “I like Snow Leopard, and found moving back to Leopard quite surprisingly painful.”
Ihnatko “..it’s a gimme”
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Thanks for the compatibility chart. Very handy.
MenuMeters broken by 10.6? A small reason, but reason enough to wait a little while.
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Apple’s Snow Leopard disc will install on Tiger Macs
By Sam Oliver
Published: 08:05 AM ESTThough users of older Intel-based Macs were led to believe they would have to spend $169 to migrate from Tiger to Snow Leopard, new reports state the $29 upgrade disc will work just fine.
In his review of Snow Leopard, Walt Mossberg of The Wall Street Journal, Mossberg reveals that those who have been hesitant to upgrade their Mac will be able to take advantage of Snow Leopard’s bargain price, without the need to install the intermediate Leopard operating system first.
“For owners of Intel-based Macs who are still using the older Tiger version of the Mac OS, Apple is officially making Snow Leopard available only in a “boxed set” that includes other software and costs $169,” Mossberg said. “The reasoning is that these folks never paid the $129 back in 2007 to upgrade to Leopard. But here?s a tip: Apple concedes that the $29 Snow Leopard upgrade will work properly on these Tiger-equipped Macs, so you can save the extra $140.”
Wired also confirmed that they were able to upgrade a system directly from Tiger to Snow Leopard. In addition, it is possible to completely erase a hard drive and install Snow Leopard without a pre-existing operating system in place, enabling users to bypass the possible headaches of an upgrade and go with a clean install instead. Wired said many users upgrading from Tiger should probably consider backing up their files from Tiger and doing a clean install instead.
“Of course, the transition isn?t guaranteed to be as smooth as it would be from Leopard to Snow Leopard,” the report said of the Tiger to Snow Leopard upgrade, “and that?s because some older, Tiger-only third-party applications need to be upgraded to newer versions that work with Leopard or Snow Leopard.”
Originally released in April 2005, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is more than a little long in the tooth at this point, especially considering the astounding success of its follow-up, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
