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Apple To Ship Mac OS X Snow Leopard On August 28
okapi writes "Apple announced that Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard will go on sale Friday, August 28 at Apple's retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers, and that Apple's online store is now accepting pre-orders."
Think of the millions of dollars in lost productivity Friday when thousands of Mac users stay home from work so they can play with the shiny new calculator in Snow Leopard.
Personally I took off work today as soon I saw this announcement. I'll be in my bunk...
Going from 10.5 to 10.6 is likely to be an actual upgrade.
Apple expects you to pay for updates to a system they feel is unstable and slow, and they are charging for it? That seems kinda weak to me, but what do I know? I tell you... I know better than to pay for upgrades. I've had XP since it came out and I've never had to purchase an update. I'm pretty sure, they've made a ridiculous number of fixes, both cosmetic and under-the-hood, and they've always just come down the line for free. You WIN-haters sure love spending more for basically the same thing. Sure, I can't make my windows wobble about, but I can run Crysis pretty well, and cheap. I spent about $300.00 bucks for my PC, that, by the by, can run OSX now that WINTEL makes the chips. MAC's are nice, but where is the value?
In Soviet Russia, road forks you!
And I have never had this issue with Windows. I've used various versions of Windows on multiple computers for years, with no such troubles. Just wait? How long should I wait, exactly? The only slowdown is when I run Itunes.
But of course, pro-Apple anecdote will get you +1 insightful everytime.
But, but - surely Macs now run the same OS as the Iphones? That's what Iphone fans told us, right?
(On that note, does this mean that Macs can run more than one program, or copy and paste yet? I thought this was always possible, but I heard it's not on OS X that runs on Iphones and Macs.)