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Apple plans to ship Snow Leopard in Sept.

computerworld.com — Apple today announced that it will launch its next operating system, dubbed Snow Leopard, in September, and charge just $29 for the upgrade.

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  • FuZi0nDET, on 06/09/2009, -12/+141$29 huh, I wish the Windows 7's upgrade would be that cheap.
  • Maddoktor2, on 06/09/2009, -9/+109Only $29? Sweet.
  • AhrenBa, on 06/09/2009, -6/+97Lets just agree that both Snow Leopard and Windows 7 will be great improvements for both sides of the aisle!
  • insomniacal, on 06/09/2009, -6/+87$29 Snow Leopard: bravo.

    Now where's my $29 Mobile Me?
  • ehaugan, on 06/09/2009, -25/+1056GB smaller, 45% faster and $29 to upgrade. Take notes Microsoft.

    Windows 7 may be faster and better than Vista (not that its hard to be better than Vista), but its also gunna cost you a whopping $299 to upgrade to the highest of the 7 friggin versions they release.
  • Appleologist, on 06/09/2009, -9/+64This proves Apple is awesome and ATT is dumb.
  • cerealjynx, on 06/09/2009, -1/+52I'm getting on this guys boat. And while everyone else is destroying each others boats, our boat will be decorated and beautiful, just in time for the parade.
  • BullBearMS, on 06/09/2009, -2/+52The price is $29 if you are upgrading from Leopard to Snow Leopard.

    According to Apple's website if you are upgrading from Tiger or earlier versions of Mac OSX then you will have to purchase the 'Mac Box Set' which will include Snow Leopard, iLife '09 (iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, iWeb, and iDVD), and iWork (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote) for $99.

    Either way, you get a lot of bang for the buck.
  • choopie911, on 06/09/2009, -5/+51I was just having the price-point conversation for this with some friends, and NOBODY thought it would be this cheap. I'll be getting this the day it's on the shelves.
  • MofS, on 08/13/2009, -19/+61Windows 7 should be free for Vista users.
  • TheSpook, on 06/09/2009, -2/+41Hmmm, I was actually thinking that was very reasonable. I was expecting to pay much more, but I'm relatively new to the Mac world.
  • Cryptopsy, on 06/09/2009, -14/+53$29 for the upgrade!? FMA!!!
  • zachgc, on 06/09/2009, -16/+49Only $20 more? The article said that the cheapest copy of Win 7 would be $100. Also the only reason why Win 7 would be "more of an upgrade" is because Vista is a worse OS than Leopard.
  • lexpattison, on 06/09/2009, -11/+37Yeah - The upgrade to windows Vista/7 fixes SO many more bugs than Snow Leopard.... all it does is trivial stuff like huge performance increases, OpenCL, massive code reduction and full 64bit implementation. Where are all the AWESOME features that mean we have to learn a whole new UI again....
    <sarcasm>
  • choopie911, on 06/09/2009, -6/+30You clearly have no idea what Snow Leopard is. The apple version of service packs are done through software update, and ARE free.
  • TheSpook, on 06/09/2009, -3/+25I already have the hardware. I'm happy to pay the $29 for the upgrade. I'm used to paying much more for Windows upgrades.
  • themastersb, on 06/09/2009, -3/+23Lets hope for the same price for Vista to 7.
  • woofers07, on 06/09/2009, -5/+23This was easily the biggest news at the WWDC. I'm not sure why this didn't get more press. $29 to noticably speed up my 2.5 year old MBP and free up 6 gigs of space? Complete no-brainer.
  • m3arvk, on 06/09/2009, -6/+23Now all the rest of us are hoping for the $50 upgrade to 7.
  • fefferid, on 06/09/2009, -2/+18This must be for Home Basic. I bet you Snow Leopard Home Premium will be $29 and they'll rip us off by charging $29 for Ultimate. Bastards.
  • damack, on 06/09/2009, -1/+16I agree AhrenaBa we can be fanboys any other day of the week but for now hats off to both Apple and Microsoft.

    29 and 50 dollar upgrades are just the icing on the cake for their faithful OS users.
  • withinavoid, on 06/09/2009, -6/+21I hope it's a full install disc and not some lame upgrade process
  • sockpuppets, on 06/09/2009, -6/+21If dumb was the new cool I'd ask you to be my friend.
  • roxgod666, on 06/09/2009, -5/+191. I posted a link. You didn't post anything. Not exactly accurate there buddy.
    2. Vista is around 7gb? Holy *****, that is amazing for an OS with so much bad rep. If you didn't know, 7gb is quite the achievement.
    Care to post the link to where you found that?
    3. I can already tell you are false advertising when you say "45% faster" instead of "45% faster installation". Big difference there. Windows 7 has like a 200% faster installation.

    It's a stat? So... on the keynote they timed the Leopard vs Snow Leopard installation?
    Who told you XP is more secure than Vista? It's no where near as secure, just look at the number of vulnerabilities of each OS every month. Vista is faster in accessebility, not benchmarks or bootup which is what 7 did.
  • roxgod666, on 06/09/2009, -17/+31Microsoft has been taking notes for a while...
    http://digg.com/tech_news/Report_Best_Buy_memo_pri ...

    And Windows 7 is more than 6gb less than Vista for me, taking up only a little more than 7gb when i was using it on a 10gb partition.
    Yes, we all know how much "45% faster" is for Apple, they're not so accurate when it comes to advertising.
  • skinrock, on 06/09/2009, -5/+18I'm actually a Mac user with all intentions of getting this upgrade, but I'm still burying it. There are ways to properly argue the highlights of Snow Leopard, that was not one of them.
  • cj485, on 06/09/2009, -12/+23thanks apple!
  • Spartan225, on 06/09/2009, -2/+13$30 is great for an upgrade. However I wish they would let us know what the retail price is for the full install DVD. Also what if you need to do a reinstall of OS X Snow Leopard? Will the upgrade DVD be enough?
  • doshindude, on 06/09/2009, -2/+13FMA? FMyApple?
  • lexpattison, on 06/09/2009, -9/+20Service Pack? An entire overhaul of multi-threading, OpenCL implementation, %90 project reduction for applications. Oh, I forgot, there isn't a whole new UI to try and learn that was ripped off from OSX like in Vista/7.
  • sindex, on 06/09/2009, -3/+14lol?
  • johndatserakis, on 06/09/2009, -0/+11I thought FTW stood for Free The Whales
  • MisterFurious, on 06/09/2009, -6/+17At least, if not faster. Leopard already screams on the new Macs, particularly the MacBook Pro, and Snow Leopard is supposed to allocate unused CPU cycles to the graphics card for extra processing power.
  • MisterFurious, on 06/09/2009, -12/+23This is an awesome strategy for Apple. They're charging only $29 to upgrade what was already a very stable operating system. Meanwhile, users had to whine and bitch to Microsoft about Vista before they release Windows 7 RC for free, but it's only free for a limited time. I can just see the "Get a Mac" ads now.
  • s73v3r, on 06/09/2009, -1/+12Exchange support will be nice, cause then I don't have to use Outlook's web interface. I'm really looking forward to playing around with Grand Central Dispatch and OpenCL. Any word on when OpenCL will be shipping for other platforms?
  • Dalrek, on 06/09/2009, -5/+15Software's cheap, but the hardware's expensive. Welcome to the Mac world.
  • bioviral, on 06/09/2009, -2/+12@ehaugan: Maybe you should learn how to disable the UAC rather than bitch about it.
  • Aadain, on 06/09/2009, -0/+10Eh, I'd pay $29 for a copy of Windows 7 in a heart beat. Too bad it won't be that cheap.
  • defenswens26, on 06/09/2009, -3/+13I take it you haven't heard of Linux then.
  • Aadain, on 06/09/2009, -9/+18You mean, they fixed their mistakes and asked for a the privilege of paying for those fixes?

    I'll be honest, I like Windows 7 and will buy a copy of it once it is released this fall. I hated Vista but love the changes made in Windows 7. But even the worst fanboy needs to admit, Windows 7 is what Vista as *supposed to be* on launch day. Asking a high price for what is a fix for all the mistakes they made with Vista is really an insult.
  • CoreyTamas, on 06/09/2009, -2/+11When Snow Leopard is released, it'll be what? Four years of Intel Macs? I think it's safe to move on.
  • lexpattison, on 06/09/2009, -3/+12Man - are you kidding? Did you read the outline... it's a massive improvement of the operating system.
  • a2fan, on 06/09/2009, -0/+9You don't have a clue what Snow Leopard is, do you?
  • pika2000, on 06/09/2009, -0/+8Even better, $50 for the family pack. $10 per license! Microsoft should really pay attention to this. Remember, their target for Windows 7 are people that stayed with XP and skipped Vista. If MS priced Windows 7 upgrade excessively, those people might just stick with XP for good until they get new PCs. As good as Windows 7 is, today's economy is still a factor.
  • Dalrek, on 06/09/2009, -1/+9I don't think you know what you're trying to say... Snow Leopard will be able to put processing off to the GPU (if the app is specifically programmed for it), but that has nothing to do with unused CPU cycles other than it will create them by not using the CPU.

    But I do believe that DirectX 11 will also allow coding to be put off to the GPU to act as a parallel processor. That's coming to both Windows 7 and Vista, so I'd say it's a "Draw" as far as features go between the two companies.

    Edit: It's a draw for consumers. DX11 will still be using shader programming, and I don't know what that entails whereas OpenCL uses C I believe. Developers may like one more than the other.
  • ehaugan, on 06/09/2009, -3/+11Thanks Apple, for making HUGE improvements on an already amazing OS. Only $29? I'm in!

    Thanks Microsoft, for fixing the horrible OS called Vista finally and labeling it Windows 7 and charging me $299 to upgrade to Ultimate.
  • Spartan225, on 06/09/2009, -2/+10Well they said that the install was shorted by 45%. So hopefully that is true for the upgrade as well.

    Hopefully we also get the same 6GB's back that people who purchase a full install DVD will get.
  • wastern, on 06/09/2009, -3/+10@petard

    I have Windows 7 64 bit installed. Unless you manually go in an re-create your start menu you are running all 32 bit apps. The 64 bit apps are in a separate app folder and everything in the start menu points to the 32 bit versions even when you installed the 64 bit build which is complete *****.

    OS X does 64 bit without the user having to hunt around. 1 OS 1 app. If you have a 64 bit cpu it will use if, it not it will run it fine on a 32 bit cpu. The end user should haven't to know or care what is what. Windows makes 64 bit difficult by not finishing the job and leaving it up to the users to figure it out and to the legwork
  • ASFx, on 06/09/2009, -3/+10Waiting for another version of windows? A little masochistic don't you think?
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