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Amazon Begins Accepting Pre-Orders for Mac OS X Snow Leopard
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Probably not. If there is, it will just be 10%, so Amazon + free shipping will still be a better deal.
Apple killed the education discount with Leopard for a full installation.
You were better off going to Amazon or hoping your school did its own sales. My university never sold OS X until the distract cut in Apple's OS X discount from their stores and online.
I just tried to order from the mac I purchased on June 18th. I click on the US link for those who bought through the online store. Then it directs me to a page where I login to my account. After that it tells me my cart is empty... that is as far as I can go. Do see anything about adding Snow Leopard to the cart.
any one notice that if you search amazon for snow leopard boxset on amazon theirs nothing to be found?. for some reason if you don't use the link on this first post it, nothing is showing up in amazon for snow leopard boxset.
snow leopard shows up as 29.99 but thats it.
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snow leopard shows up as 29.99 but thats it.
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Hopefully, with the fact that this is hitting the Pre-Order stage and with Siggraph coming up at the same time as Apple discontinued selling Shake 4.1 it means Apple will be actually be rolling out a next version of Shake which would probably be a prime candidate for taking advantages of a lot of the things Snow Leopard will be adding. Another thing is that fxguide hasn't published anything about Apple discontinuing Shake. Fxguide isn't the "be all and end all" word of Film VFX news, but they did deliver the only interview with the actual head of Shake development a couple of years ago (right after the Shake 4.1 announcement) and confirmed that Apple was developing a new compositing app around Shake technology that wasn't Motion. Maybe things have changed, but Apple hasn't made an official announcement as of yet and the timing does seem a bit peculiar.
As far as I could tell it sounded like Apple was discontinuing sales of Shake 4.1 and everything else is speculation, so who knows.
As far as I could tell it sounded like Apple was discontinuing sales of Shake 4.1 and everything else is speculation, so who knows.
Sorry about that! The site must be janky. I know it took me a few tries. The process is a little confusing, the way they have it set up.
Heck, it might be worth it just to buy the $29 retail version. The box is very shiny, and if my memory serves, they include another set of those nifty Apple logo stickers.
I had the same problem. I tried with safari and firefox on my mac as well as windows, nothing would work. What finally worked was using IE in Windows. I would say to try that.
Do you think it'll run on Hackintoshes? If it uses the same drivers I don't see why it wouldn't :X
Where do you live? Just asking because my experience is the exact opposite. Regular shipping ships same day & is rec'd 2-3 days later - usually UPS. Free shipping takes 2-5 days to ship & rec'd 3-5 days later - usually by USPS via UPS. I'm in D.C.
That is just it though -- the hackintosh drivers will need to be updated first. I'm sure they will but prob. will take a few days to perfect.
I pre-ordered my free copy of SL due to the fact I just recently bought a new Mac so I know mine will be shipped out first but for the people that want to save a little $$ and pre-order it from Amazon it may not ship to you as fast as you expect. Since it's a pre-order, in the past, Apple has given priority to the customers that order directly from them and leaving the reseller's customers in the cold for an extra week.
If you don't care if you are one of the first to get it and post on MR then by all means Amazon is your best deal but I think it will be a wait for Amazon customers.
If you don't care if you are one of the first to get it and post on MR then by all means Amazon is your best deal but I think it will be a wait for Amazon customers.
I know all copies ordered direct from Apple did. I don't recall Amazon ensuring the same though.
I'm in NC, RDU area. Free shipping almost always ships the following day, although there are exceptions.
That's how I think it will go down. Essentially purchasing Snow Leopard on the honor system.
I already pre-ordered this for about 9 euro 
Since my Mac is bought mid 2009 Happy me, can't wait for the upgrade
Since my Mac is bought mid 2009 Happy me, can't wait for the upgrade
Nifty! I love playing around with OSx86 and having to make things work.
I don't know why, it's just fun for me :[
I am weird about operating system upgrades. I hang back about a quarter mile from the caravan...
If there's some piece of hardware I have been waiting for or am really psyched up about getting (original iPhone or Rev A of Macbook Air for instance), I will be out there with my dough on day one.
Operating system = complete other story; I am a real laggard on it and usually wait until one or sometimes even two updates have been released. Guess I think my time is worth more than the money it takes to buy an operating system, if something really bad turns up a few weeks down the road into public use of a new OS.
I don't even keep track of whether my cautionary approach has paid off or not, and by now I'm too old to change my stripes. I'm interested in Snow Leopard and OF COURSE will invest in it, but as usual I am not going to put a rush on it.
If there's some piece of hardware I have been waiting for or am really psyched up about getting (original iPhone or Rev A of Macbook Air for instance), I will be out there with my dough on day one.
Operating system = complete other story; I am a real laggard on it and usually wait until one or sometimes even two updates have been released. Guess I think my time is worth more than the money it takes to buy an operating system, if something really bad turns up a few weeks down the road into public use of a new OS.
I don't even keep track of whether my cautionary approach has paid off or not, and by now I'm too old to change my stripes. I'm interested in Snow Leopard and OF COURSE will invest in it, but as usual I am not going to put a rush on it.
Hi. I am a little confused with something. So my family has a few Intel Macs running Leopard. We are also interested in iLife 09 (or '10) and iWork 09 (or '10.) So how come a family pack of Snow Leopard is $49, yet a family Mac Box Set is $229!? Am I missing something?
I bet Snow Leopard is a higher seller than Windows 7 between September and December on Amazon.com. It will only show that market share doesn't mean anything. It is who is spending the money.