Snow Leopard Shipping August 28
Both Apple.com and Apple.co.uk have listed an August 28 launch for Snow Leopard.
Last week rumor had it that the most recent build of OS X 10.6 or Snow Leopard, 10A432, was the Golden Master. In other words, the last stepping stone before the OS hit retail shelves. This led experts to believe that Apple was going to launch Snow Leopard early: Friday, August 28, to be exact.
Originally scheduled to ship in September of this year, Engadget reports that the company's UK website yesterday showed an August 28 shipping date. Shortly after, the same date appeared on the U.S. website.
While some might consider this a confirmation that the company is planning to launch the OS next week, there was a little something else on the Apple website this week. The Snow Leopard version of the Mac Box Set appeared very briefly late Wednesday afternoon with a shipping date of "withing 24 hours." The product was soon pulled but not before someone snagged a screen shot of the Mac Box Set that includes Mac OS X 10.6, iLife '09, and iWork '09.
[UPDATE] Apple has since changed the Augusts ship dates to read September. Perhaps it won't ship in August after all.


Oh boy, they are charging for a service pack!
http://www.macrumors.com/2009/08/20/apples-uk-online-store-lists-august-28th-ship-date-for-snow-leopard-up-to-date-program/
Oh boy, they are charging for a service pack!
It's not a service pack. It rewrites large portions of leopard code. It doesn't add a lot of new features, but makes the entire OS much more streamlined, reduces the size of core apps to mere KB's, and introduces OpenCL, changes all of the core apps to 64 bit, has Grand Central Dispatch, which makes the entire OS multithreaded, and allows multithreaded apps to be written extremely easily for the OS
$30 for a new OS, is that to much for you?
*sigh* this post will probably be voted down, simply because i support apple. Gotta love me and heffeque getting negatives for saying nothing but facts about the OS
You may have a point but I think stretched the truth, just a little huh, Leopard was bloated and in my opinion and was Apples "Vista" release. You should have stayed with Tiger. As for the PPC users keep Tiger and quit whining, the moved to intel going on 4 years now. If you want to move to full 64 bit goodness, buy a new machine.
those are refurbished
I'm pretty sure the reason your getting negatives isn't because you two support Apple. Far from it actually. I think its more because we don't like the fact that their business model effectively says "Lure them in with a cheap OS(to make MSFT look greedy. Nice move though
Either way. Give MSFT big $ up front, or pay Apple big $ down the road...
EACH company put a dent in your wallet... So stop the whining, and belly-aching.
Or go get Linux
Also, on top of everything Apple does, you come in, APPEARING to be preaching about $30 vs $200 or $300, or whatever the case may be. The Apple Tax MORE than CLEARS anything MSFT makes from an equal volume of sales of their product.
But i'll continue to use my PC, and hope Apple continues to stay around, pissing people off, from the Apple Tax, to the superiority complex all their users seem to have.
Not for their product. Which i don't like. But for the competition.
Boy do i love a good street brawl
That having been said, at least the price isn't all that painful...