Filed under: OS Updates, Apple
Apple opens preorders for OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Apple's latest and greatest operating system, OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, was initially not expected to ship until September,. Now we know that it's on its way this Friday, August 28th. Snow Leopard just popped up for pre-ordering on the Apple Store. It's an unprecedented $29 to upgrade from Leopard, because Snow Leopard isn't a flashy update. As we reported previously, most of the improvements are under the hood, but some new important new features are included: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.
Snow Leopard pricing, aside from the aforementioned $29 upgrade from 10.5 Leopard, look like this: $49 for a Family Pack (5 licenses), and $169 for the Mac Box Set. The Box Set includes Snow Leopard, iLife '09 and iWork '09, and allows you to upgrade from Tiger. Remember, Snow Leopard is the first Intel-only version of OS X, so you're out of luck if you're still using a G4 or a G5.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
