Monday, August 24th 2009
Apple OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Starts Shipping on Aug. 28
Apple's newest operating system, the OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - one claimed to be the world's most advanced - starts shipping later this month, on 28th. The new OS is priced at US $29 (incl. shipping) for a single-user upgrade from Leopard, and $49 for 5-user family pack users. New Macs will bundle the OS, and it will also be available in bundles with iLife and iWork for $169 ($229 for 5-user family pack).
Snow Leopard brings in several major thru minor changes over its predecessor, more importantly, that it eliminates support for PowerPC-based Macs, supporting only those based on Intel x86. All major components will now support the x86-64 instruction set, to take advantage of large amounts of system memory. The OS also embraces OpenCL, which lets supporting applications tap the computing power of GPUs, while the OS itself is better optimised for multi-core/multi-threaded CPUs.
Notable application updates bundled with the OS include Safari 4 and Quicktime X. The former is one of the fastest web-browsers, while the latter supports GPU-acceleration for video playback. Apple Store and Amazon.com have started accepting orders for the OS, which will ship on the 28th. Both stores offer free shipping in the US.
Source:
MacNN
Snow Leopard brings in several major thru minor changes over its predecessor, more importantly, that it eliminates support for PowerPC-based Macs, supporting only those based on Intel x86. All major components will now support the x86-64 instruction set, to take advantage of large amounts of system memory. The OS also embraces OpenCL, which lets supporting applications tap the computing power of GPUs, while the OS itself is better optimised for multi-core/multi-threaded CPUs.
38 Comments on Apple OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Starts Shipping on Aug. 28
EDIT: The source (MacNN) as well as MacRumors both say August 28th.
Wouldn't mind giving this new OS a whirl on a imac or mac mini.
EDIT: btarunr, thanks for title edit!
Uses half as much HD space and runs faster using the same hardware. :D
And the reason Microsoft can't do that with Windows is.......???:wtf:
2) www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/09/04/road_to_snow_leopard_twice_the_ram_half_the_price_64_bits.html
Please educate yourself before opening your mouth.
Just pointing out the irony that Microsoft's biggest competitor in the market is releasing an OS that runs faster and uses less space on the same hardware as their previous version. Something Microsoft has never done, in spite of all their claims of superior performance from older versions to newer versions.
guess your wrong right
alot of heat of the moment posting going on
Your obvious attempt on "pointing out the irony" fails because Snow vs. Leopard is somewhat like Vista x86 vs. 7 x86-64.
At any rate, lets not turn this into yet another MS vs Apple thread. :toast:
And I'm gonna wait a month or 2 before upgrading on my iMac, as I want to make sure all the possible bugs are worked out, and that all my favorite software is fully compatible.
Of course, there always is Hackintosh.
MS has taken FOREVER to come to the concept of doing Win7 as 64 bit and running a 32bit VM for compatibility. They should have done that with XP. XP-64 should have had a 32-bit VM inbuilt. It if unforgiveable it took MS so long to solve this.
Nontheless, having both OSX and WinXP/03 I still prefer Windows. I find it much faster to use, and the taskbar is far superior when multitasking/switching between apps.