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OS X Leopard Ships On October 26th

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the big-cat-in-my-laptop dept.

David in AZ writes "According to the Apple website, Mac OS X Leopard will start shipping on October 26! From their blurb: 'Packed with more than 300 new features, Mac OS X Leopard goes on sale Friday, October 26, at 6:00 p.m. at Apple's retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers, Apple announced today. And, beginning today, customers can place pre-orders on Apple's online store. "Leopard, the sixth major release of Mac OS X, is the best upgrade we've ever released," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "And everyone gets the 'Ultimate' version, packed with all the new innovative features, for just $129.""

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  1. The student edition is now $47 more by antifoidulus · · Score: 5, Informative

    It used to be that for software anyway, the student discounts represented a significant savings, which was great for poor college students. But starting with iWork and iLife it seems that the student discount is only about 10%. So whereas Tiger cost $69 for the edu version, Leopard costs $116.....

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    1. Re:The student edition is now $47 more by VCAGuy · · Score: 5, Informative

      I think it still is, though it appears that Apple has reduced the places where you can get those steep discounts at...their online "Education" store pricing is higher than it used to be, but since they don't bother with compliance checking, I think I can understand why. I attend UCF, and a quick check of our computer store's ordering page shows that Tiger (M9639Z) is $69, and that Leopard (MB021Z) will also be $69. iWork '08 cost me just $39...a quick check of a another Florida university's computer store showed the same pricing.

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  2. Re:The Vista bashing is starting to get old.... by Jaxoreth · · Score: 5, Informative

    Why does it cost me so much for a point release is what I want to know and why aren't people lambasting Apple for such?
    Because it's a major upgrade, not a point release.
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  3. Re:The Vista bashing is starting to get old.... by Apple+Acolyte · · Score: 5, Informative

    In order to maintain the longevity of the OS X name, full milestone upgrades of OS X are called point releases. People lambaste OS X for that numbering convention, as if OS X milestone releases are not as significant just because Apple isn't moving the first digit of the version number with each release. It's a really stupid critique, FWIW.

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  4. Re:300+ features... by ceoyoyo · · Score: 5, Informative

    A lot of the new features (mostly the ones that aren't hyped on the main page) are specifically for developers. It's been that way with most of the OS X releases -- the best features are actually for developers. From memory there's full 64-bit support, CoreAnimation (CoreImage, released with Tiger, was a great tool for developers), a Dashboard development tool and Objective-C 2.0.

    All of the new developer toys are nicely exposed through well thought out APIs, with free documentation and were announced two years ago and a pre-release of the OS made available a year ago so developers could get a jump start.

    Apple has to put a few nice Joe Public features in the new OS so people will upgrade to it so there's a bigger market for all those third party developers.

  5. That sucks, but it's not Apple's fault. by Kadin2048 · · Score: 5, Informative

    You do realize that 298 of those 1195 SEK are tax, right? So subtracting that out, you get a real price of 897 SEK, which is only 68 SEK more than the US price, or about $10.60 USD.

    I doubt that you'd be able to order a US version and have it shipped to Sweden for less than $10 in shipping.

    Seems like a pretty fair price to me. Maybe you should vote for politicians who support lower taxes if you don't like it?

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