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04 Aug 2009
Amazon has started accepting pre-orders for Apple's forthcoming Mac OS X 10.6, codenamed Snow Leopard, and demand is so high that the operating system has claimed the top two spots in the e-retailer's software sales charts.
The single-user version of Snow Leopard, priced at $29 (£17), is top of the charts, followed by the family version for five users costing $49 (£29). The prices are considerably lower than previous versions, which were traditionally priced at around $129 (£76).
Apple is also selling a boxed set of Snow Leopard and the iWork and iLife application suites for $169 (£100) for one user or $229 (£135) for five users. The server edition of Snow Leopard, Mac OS X Server 10.6, sells for $499 (£295).
No release date has been set for the operating system, but it is expected to be available in September. This will put it ahead of Windows 7, which is due out on 22 October.
Snow Leopard will be available only for Apple users with systems using Intel's processors, and is the first Apple operating system that uses 64-bit memory, which will make it much faster because it can use considerably more system memory.
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LOL, Where else can you buy Leopard? Amazon has many competitors who sell Windows 7, but where else can a Mac user buy Leopard?
Posted by: alur 04 Aug 2009
Snow Leopard
The cost of Snow Leopard, if you are not upgrading from Leopard, (at least in the U.S.) will be like all the other OS X upgrades - $129.99 for the single user and $199 for the Family pack. Mac OS X can be obtained from on-line sources like Amazon, MacMall, OWC, and others. It can also be purchased at any retailer that sells Mac products such as: Apple Retail Stores, Best Buy, Fry's Electronics, Micro Center, and others.
Posted by: Dru Richman 04 Aug 2009
Incorrect information
The prices for Snow Leopard are NOT $29 and $49. Those prices are for the upgrade. This means that you must already be running Mac OSX 5 (Leopard) in order to make use of the cheaper versions. The full version will cost about $170 for single user and $250 for the family pack.
Posted by: Bilbo Baggins 04 Aug 2009
Not really accurate
While it's true it might allow more ram, right now, even without a 64 bit architecture, apple already had some desktop PC's topping 32Gb of ram. A 64bit architecture will also introduce some overhead in the CPU cycles, so it's not always going to be faster... What might make it better though is that "grand dispatch central" thing, I think it that was it's name, but I want to see some benchmarking before commenting.
Posted by: David 04 Aug 2009