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Snow Leopard is the top Amazon pre-order
We're eagerly awaiting Snow Leopard at the TUAW offices, and we're not alone. It's currently the number 1 pre-order item at Amazon. While there's no official release date available, Amazon notes that Snow Leopard can be expected "...sometime in September."What's interesting is that Apple's $29US release will be issued only a month before Microsoft's Windows 7 (in fact, reader Chris Tebb points out that many Amazon users checking out Snow Leopard go on to buy Win 7). Microsoft hopes to dig itself out of the hole created by public reaction to Vista, while Apple is giving Mac OS X Leopard a shine. For more on Snow Leopard, check out the official page and our own continuing coverage.
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Ariel said 2:42PM on 8-03-2009
Firstly, Snow Leopard and Windows 7 upgrades aren't direct competitors themselves. If you happen to have a PC, you can only get Windows 7, and if you happen to have a Mac, chances are you'll get the Snow Leopard upgrade.
Secondly, the fact that some people buy Windows 7 after looking at Snow Leopard is unremarkable. The two are very similar in many ways, so it's natural to look and see what the other guys are getting. The number showing people getting Windows 7 after Snow Leopard is not actually high, it's simply showing that among those who do buy something else after looking at it, many of those are getting Windows 7. You should be able to tell that based on the fact that it says "50% buy Windows 7 Premium and 25% buy Windows 7 Ultimate" when Snow Leopard is the #1 software bestseller and Windows 7 is #12.
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Grant said 2:48PM on 8-03-2009
I wish Snow Leopard was a downloadable update like the 10.5.x updates...
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George said 3:44PM on 8-03-2009
I too was hoping I could just download it. Might as well pre-order then, there's no way I'm not going to upgrade. Unless 10.6 breaks all Adobe apps or something.
Now that I think of it, maybe I will hold off…
dagamer43 said 3:17PM on 8-03-2009
Anyone know if Amazon ships the product the day of release or is that when it gets delivered to your door?
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danny said 3:43PM on 8-03-2009
Mac OSX does not require a licence key to install
nor does iLife or iWork(09) :D
Noah Ramon said 4:55PM on 8-03-2009
Sometimes, they shoot for getting it to you receiving it on release date, sometimes they *ship* on release date. It really depends on how big a release it is, and they'll usually announce it as such beforehand.
iLikeMyiPhone said 3:43PM on 8-03-2009
They generally ship in such a manner that the copy is at your door steps on the launch/release day!
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Ryan Gray said 3:55PM on 8-03-2009
I like the imagery that with Snow Leopard, Apple is polishing an Apple (Leopard), and with Windows 7, Microsoft is polishing a turd (Vista).
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smak said 4:56PM on 8-03-2009
Retarded.
phobic99 said 5:15PM on 8-03-2009
Retarded indeed. Windows 7 is actually pretty nice to use and I do so along both my Macs.
george.haake said 4:44PM on 8-03-2009
In the past I purchased the single upgrade for a couple of Macs. With 3 Macs now, the ethical route seems attractive at $49. Pre-ordered....
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Joanna D said 5:04PM on 8-03-2009
$29 is still too steep for a handful of features and fixes that really, really should be free.
Apple dropped the ball with Leopard - hopefully they'll restore some of the goodness that made me like them so much with Tiger.
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SIP said 10:29PM on 8-03-2009
If you believe that Snow Leopard is merely a "handful of features and fixes", then you really don't know much about it.
Snow Leopard is almost a complete re-write optimised for Intel-based Macs and feels much faster and smoother than 10.5.
@George: "Unless 10.6 breaks all Adobe apps or something."
Well, it managed to run CS3 just fine, so if you're using CS4, I'm sure you'll be OK.
Ben said 6:02PM on 8-03-2009
Personally -- although I wish them well -- after the last maintainance update to Leopard, I've lost the core of faith that would allow me to be one of the early adopters of Snow Leopard.
They completely hosed many people's HDMI HDTV connections, don't appear to know (or admit) why, don't have a fix even after all this time (although there IS an aftermarket fix, you use an aftermarket scan rate / monitor setup app. Users figured it out when Apple couldn't / wouldn't.)
The simple fact here is that if they can't even get a small update right, what are the reasonable expectations that they can rewrite the entire OS without similar problems in random places?
No, I'll be watching, probably for about a year, while they work the inevitable bugs, bugettes, and outright Godzilla-sized problems out of Snow Leopard. I don't envy you enthusiastic types the experience, either.
My idea of installing Snow Leopard is install, then immediately apply at least two or three major updates, THEN use it. This, of course, assumes that there is something useful to me in the first place, like a newer, more powerful copy of Aperture that requires it, or perhaps the ability to refresh a network share, or the elimination of that bloody "I can't multitask for beans" ball.
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oriste said 7:51AM on 8-04-2009
I saw Windows 7 (I almost wrote "System 7" there, must be an old trauma) last weekend on a windows developer friend's system, running in VMWare. I wasn't in the least impressed, except for the much improved installation process.
Windows 7 looks like Windows 3.1 in watercolors to me. Ugly as hell.
I'll stick to trusted XP for the 1 system that needs to run Windows in my house. For the other systems, I can't wait for Snow Leopard to arrive.
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Raj said 2:31PM on 8-04-2009
Hear, Hear....
As nice as Win7 looks or behaves, XP will remain my VMware image OS until there is a big enough marketshare for 7 that I need to start testing on it (luckily, win testing isn't my bread & butter).
Besides, I have no idea how win7 could possibly be faster as a guest OS than XP.
ShaunneyCakes said 4:34PM on 8-04-2009
I am going to stick with Leopard. There is really nothing being offered with Snow Leopard that would warrant an upgrade. I was actually a little underwhelmed with Leopard as well.
It seems as though Apple was not ready for Windows 7 and threw something together.
When is Apple going to remember that us computer users would love some MAJOR feature additions just like it's iphone users.
As far as Windows, I think I will stick with my XP on boot camp until I am sure that Windows 7 can run on it flawlessly.
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vandil said 10:22PM on 8-04-2009
If you continue to use the latest Apple products, you will inevitably have to use Snow Leopard. Upgrade in September or whenever.
Apple's had some stinker OS releases in the past.
10.3 broke FireWire hard disks using the Oxford chipset. Fixed in 10.3.1. 10.4 broke fullscreen mode for many apps and wasnt fixed until 10.4.2.
10.5 made every Power PC-based Mac slower than death.
10.6 will probably break something. Make sure you have a good backup.
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