Snow Leopard Shipping Aug. 28, Pre-order Now
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After nearly two weeks of rumors, Apple has finally announced a release date for OS X 10.6.
Those of you who have anxiously been waiting for the day when you can finally secure yourself a copy of Apple's latest operating system, Mac OS X 10.6, or Snow Leopard, can pre-order today.
Apple has announced that Snow Leopard will go on sale next Friday, August 28 in retail stores and online, as per last week's rumors. Those of you who wish to buy can pre-order here.
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Tell me about it. That and the single version is definitely some things Apple gets right.
Nevermind I just read it on apple.com and found out if you have PPC you can't upgrade. On top of that, its 64-bit and it makes SOME applications faster. It also has GCD which may be great. But since its a launch technology I would wait, regardless of who programmed it.
Whenever a new version of ipod touch software comes out, they make you pay to upgrade.
Do you honestly expect that a mac from 7 years ago should be able to be upgraded to the latest OS ?? It's not like everyone's gonna be installing Windows 7 on their 7 year old pentiums. It time to buy a new computer bud
OS racist... osacist? hmm... no don't think that is right.
No one cares if you want it or not, you obviously knew nothing about it and were already ragging on it in your post.
Windows 7 and SL both sound promising. I have been using win 7 enterprise RTM on my media center and it's great and very stable. Leopard has been great on my hackintosh laptop as well, i am actually looking forward to SL.
Apple only adopted Intel processors in 2006 starting with the Core Duos, I would personally expect the G4/G5 Macs to still be supported, seeing as Windows 7 can run on a Pentium 4.
Honestly, do Linux fanboys ever get their facts right? OS X is not Linux, they are both unix-like, but OS X is based off of OPENSTEP and FreeBSD, and is not based off Linux in any way. It gets so irritating.
See this chart.
I have a dual G5 Mac with a 8X AGP slot. So no video card upgrades and no OSX 10.6 upgrade for me.
Looks like I'm stuck with 10.4 and my crappy Radeon 9600.
I'm never buying a computer from Apple again. If I really need OSX I'll get a hackintosh.