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Apple announces price and date for Mac OS X Snow Leopard
by Nik Fletcher Jun 8th 2009 at 2:05PM
Long-touted as 'just' a behind-the-scenes update, Snow Leopard features support for Microsoft Exchange, a re-written Finder and an all-new QuickTime player with hardware acceleration and built-in YouTube uploading. There's also a tonne of new developer technologies to allow developers to handle multi-processor machines with Grand Central, and an all-round speed increase for all the OS components.
Apple's official web pages have yet to be updated with the pricing details or more information beyond the original holding pages, however in today's WWDC keynote Apple confirmed dates, pricing and some more features - as well as confirming that Mac OS X Snow Leopard is indeed going to only run on Intel-based Macs.
If you're running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger on an Intel machine, the options are between a Mac Box Set (featuring Snow Leopard, iLife '09 and iWork '09) for $169 or 5-User Family Pack which brings you the iLife, iWork and Snow Leopard package for $229.
If you're wanting to stay up to date on everything at WWDC, be sure to stop by our good friends at TUAW who're covering the conference throughout this week.
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Grant Robertson said 2:55PM on 6-08-2009
Maybe I haven't been paying enough attention, but I was kind of expecting to be able to pick up a copy of this today. Sad face.
Still, can't freakin' wait. Apple is *so* close to making Microsoft a business choice and not a necessity. Exchange server clone for Xserve by Q1 2010? Spotlight search for Exchange is totally hotness, this is something at which Outlook itself is absolutely *horrible*.
A $29 10.5 upgrade is practically a Mac OS stimulus package! Take that, rumored $99 Win 7 upgrade pricing!
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EGOvoruhk said 3:04AM on 6-09-2009
It's not really a date. It's a month
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hazard said 5:04AM on 6-09-2009
Wow, Grand Central Dispatch and OpenCL are a pretty big deal for $29. Way to go Apple .. going from strength to strength :)
Though I had to laugh at this one "Restore deleted items to original folders". It funny how some obvious features take [seemingly] forever to get implemented. Plus how much cruft can build up in an OS? .. "Snow Leopard takes up less than half the disk space of the previous version, freeing about 6GB for you"
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