Apple Store is down, could Snow Leopard be coming?

you can now have a 15" mbp matte nonreflection display, and grey/silver borders yeah yesyesyes =)

whoa, the store is a little f'd up. All the products have a brown cardboard box icon, and there's stuff missing, like Aperture. I can't find it anywhere. Strange.

iChet said:
Why is Apple naming their OS after big cats?

Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard.

Can someone tell me this?

Chris said: They do not like dogs.

'fraid not - but that would be funny if it was...

On returning to Apple and bringing in Next as the new OS (the whole reason for SJ returning) Steve wanted to get back to Apples' roots. He quickly zoomed releases through so that 0S's 8 and 9 were out of the way - and he could release os 10 (sort of like OS 1 (but with a zero)) but he also wanted to move away form the legacy going up in numbers so he introduced the OS X (as being 'fresh' and also why we have stayed at point numbers and never moved onto 11, and 12 etc...)

But he wanted to take this further away the legacy numbers, while going back to year zero: He wanted to reintroduce the idea of the eureka moment and the Newton apple falling from the tree (the original apple logo). Unfortunately Apple already had used the name 'Newton" for very adventurous, before it's time gadget. SJ killed that off as one of his 1st acts at Apple - as he didn't want his favourite Scientist/Mathematician's name and legacy used on his struggling device - others have argued that if the device had been called the LeGrange it would still be on the market today.

So SJ needed a new name or rather 'nickname' that people would refer to this new operating system: so he did the obvious thing. He used Newton's nickname.

Newton was known around Greenwich as 'Cheetah': this was due to several little things:

1) The speed with which he chased and pursued women the caught his eye
2) His big barrel chest, and his thin waist
3) His remarkable talent with the playing cards at the Gentlemens Clubs he visited

However it also followed the tradition amongst those at the Royal College of naming the leading lights in the field of Mathematics after - you've guessed it - Big Cats.

Other Mathematicians names include:
Jean Girud - panther
Johann Bernoulli: Leopard
Leonhard Paul Euler: the Snow Leopard... (he was a prodigy of Bernoulli and also had a fine head of white hair from an early age)

So there you have it

two interesting points:

will we ever see an OS X named after either Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz or Edmond Halley : 2 of Issac Newtons' mortal enemies

(that would be either 'Oselot' or 'Pampas - i'll leave you to see if you could work out which is which)

oh and Physicists also have nicknames for each other that follow a naming convention too...

Einstein was rumoured to be called 'leafroller'...

Maybe when OS 11 is released... as Jobs has used Einstein before at apple and the genius moniker...

My order didn't say "delivers" by the 28th, it said "ships" by the 28th.

If you are from the UK and buy Snow Leopard in New York it costs $31.58 with tax or £19.14. If you are VAT registered in the UK you pay £21.74 excluding VAT. I don't think I'll wait until I am next in the US to buy Snow Leopard just to save myself £2.60.

Just preordered my copy of Snow Leopard from UK store. It was £25 which, although still cheap is more than it costs in the US. £25 = $41 today. But then Apple always charges UK customers alot more than US customers. Can't wait to get this thing on 28th Aug according to the shipping date Apple provided.

Snow Leopard 8/28 officially!

I just ordered Snow Leopard via the link you provided to what
I thought was going to be a non working page, but IT WORKED! DELIVERS on Aug 28th, which means they are sending it out Tuesday or Wednesday if it is via US mail on Friday,. Very excited! Thanks for the hot lead!

Here is where I went:
"Snow Leopard box set makes short-lived cameo in Apple's online store"

This is the link. First you see an ad or the boxed set, but on the lower left, you can select the upgrade for $29.00, free shipping!
(with tax, about $31.58 - I'm in NYC). Good luck to all!

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC209Z/A?fnode=NDQ5MDg0MA&mco=Nzc2Njk1Mg&s=topSellers

Aussie store up, Snow Leopard pre ordered, roll on next week!

Seems Snow Leopard can now be pre-ordered for delivery on Aug 28th