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Apple Announces August 28th Availability of Snow Leopard

to be honest guys, i got the developer copy(not a dev myself) and no, im not going to buy snow leopard because i dont think its fair i have a one year old MacBook and just be screwed over by stuff like OpenCL because apple didnt use a good quality GPU/
 
[sarcasm]Wait what? How come so many people are buying Snow Leopard? On an older thread about the lack of OpenCL support on some GPUs, I thought everybody decided to ditch Mac and switch to Windows 7. 🙄[/sarcasm]
 
Ok i need HELP! I qualify my mac pro for the up-to-date program, but the cart shows up EMPTY after i do that!??! HELP ANYBODY??
 
peterdevries said:
Yeah, this whole "we in the US don´t give a **** about what´s going on outside of our border, unless there is no democracy yet" is getting a bit old and annoying. 😉
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As is this whole "we in the EU don´t give a **** about what´s going on in the US unless we want something from you" is getting a bit old and annoying too. 😉
 
Erase and Install?

Can anyone confirm if I can do an Erase and Install (clean install) from Leopard to Snow Leopard with the $29 upgrade disc? I just contacted Apple Customer Service via online chat, and they said that I couldn't, which I find hard to believe. Doesn't it just validate that you have 10.5 already installed when you put the disc in?

I guess I could do a clean install of 10.5 and then go for a straight upgrade to 10.6 afterwards, but how ugly is that?
 
Got mine on order!!!
 

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Who's feeling entrepreneurial?

Given the number of upset Brits on this thread, screaming foul at the usual Apple exchange rate ($29=£25), all it will take is an entrepreneurial US based reader to ship copies to the UK. Do it all via eBay.
 
Lesser Evets said:
All MS fanboys and MS itself must be wetting their pants like crazy.

$29 for a new OS... I love owning PCs and having to pay $200 or more every time MS makes a better OS, which is generally a worse OS with more things to make it less embarrassing.
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Let's face it: It's not a new OS, it's a Service Pack for a two years old OS, and it drops support for two hardware architectures: 32-Bit and 64-Bit PowerPC.

Windows 7 also is not a new OS, but a large Service Pack for Vista, and Microsoft also gave a rebate on pre-orders.

The thing is: Both 'new' operating systems - Snow Leopard and Windows 7 - should have been made available free of charge for existing customers.
 
Lesser Evets said:
All MS fanboys and MS itself must be wetting their pants like crazy.

$29 for a new OS... I love owning PCs and having to pay $200 or more every time MS makes a better OS, which is generally a worse OS with more things to make it less embarrassing.
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Not to mention that even Leopard wipes the floor with W7 in terms of speed, start-up, sleep, shut down, and basically screams bloody murder on every comparable application on W7. Microsoft's marketing motto remains - "Less for More"
 
D A said:
Actually the price is quite a bit above the price it should have:

$29 * 7.1 (current exchange rate) * 1.25 = 258 SEK, in other words the price is 23% higher than it should be.
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Your not taking other factors into account that would impact price. Shipping (they charge you for it, but hide it in the price and act like they did you a favor), and other things involved with sending US software into a foreign country such as tariffs and customs.

Whenever you have anything going over a border, the cost goes up.
 
Paradigm said:
I've never been wronged by Apple! I buy retail, somethings with Developer's discount (usually hardware). Of course I am speaking of delivery in the continental U.S. Apple has a wearhouse less than 4 hour drive from me. The FedEx depot locally to me is less than 3 miles from my house. Retail Store is 45 minutes away from me too.

I'll let you guys know when I get mine. I'll be the first to complain if I don't get it Friday.
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Good point. I think my nearest Apple warehouse is thousands of miles away. BTW, in US store it says "Ships: Delivers by Aug 28th" and in Finland store "Ships: By Aug 28th", so it may be delivered on 28th in US but in Finland, next week, I don't know. Sorry if I've sounded rude or something. We'll see...
 
Winni said:
Let's face it: It's not a new OS, it's a Service Pack for a two years old OS, and it drops support for two hardware architectures: 32-Bit and 64-Bit PowerPC.

Windows 7 also is not a new OS, but a large Service Pack for Vista, and Microsoft also gave a rebate on pre-orders.

The thing is: Both 'new' operating systems - Snow Leopard and Windows 7 - should have been made available free of charge for existing customers.
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I'd say no to the Apple part and yes to the Windows part. Vista was to Seven what an alpha release is to a full release. Snow Leopard isn't "changed" enough to be a full OS, but there are changes, hence an actual price. Apple subsidizes software costs with hardware costs. It's not a service pack.
 
jdm111 said:
to be honest guys, i got the developer copy(not a dev myself) and no, im not going to buy snow leopard because i dont think its fair i have a one year old MacBook and just be screwed over by stuff like OpenCL because apple didnt use a good quality GPU/
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Then don't buy it. Or move back to Windows. To me there are other more important features in SL like grand central. OpenCL is just an extra, and for the price, it's still a steal.
 
Winni said:
The thing is: Both 'new' operating systems - Snow Leopard and Windows 7 - should have been made available free of charge for existing customers.
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I don't agree.

They are both worth money, however, nothing close to the full price that's been charged in the past.

$30 for SL is fair IMO.
 
Did anyone else have to pay for shipping for the UTD program order? I thought that the $9.95 was the cost of the shipping and handling? While placing my order, they added another $4 even though the order page said free shipping!
 
one question..

i ordered SL trough Spain web-store as now i am in Spain the question is does the installation will have English ?
 
DMann said:
Microsoft's marketing motto remains - "Less for More"
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That's what always comes across to me. I cringe everytime I have to buy a new MS OS. But, the common thought is that Mac is so expensive, despite the stability and cost of basic programs is so incredibly cheap compared to what a PC offers.
 
FSMBP said:
Yay for the news but I'm still bummed on the disc/box art. I don't get why they all of sudden changed it and broke away from the "X" theme...whatever. The current art looks like a wallpaper from Windows 98.
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I've got half a mind to do one of those 'unboxing' photo albumns where I rip the damn packaging to pieces, stamp on it, set it on fire, then eat the ashes. I can't believe people are so obsessed, or indeed MORE obsessed about the damn cardboard rather than the gigabytes of goodness inside.
 
The SL page has changed up a bit too. Before, the tech specs page said my graphics card wasn't supported for OpenCL. Now, it says the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS is supported. Also, now it says you'll recover 7GB of memory upon istallation instead of 6GB.
 
Lewisham said:
Can anyone confirm if I can do an Erase and Install (clean install) from Leopard to Snow Leopard with the $29 upgrade disc? I just contacted Apple Customer Service via online chat, and they said that I couldn't, which I find hard to believe. Doesn't it just validate that you have 10.5 already installed when you put the disc in?

I guess I could do a clean install of 10.5 and then go for a straight upgrade to 10.6 afterwards, but how ugly is that?
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I think we should be able to do that. On the system requirements page, Apple didn't say anything about needing an existing OS X installation. It won't be long till someone can confirm it though. 🙂
 
retroneo said:
Yes, should run with perhaps some minor incompatibilities. Rosetta installs automatically on Snow Leopard if you have PowerPC apps, you can also install it by pressing Customize at the install.

Snow Leopard doesn't run on PowerPC computers, but PowerPC software still runs on Intel processors thanks to Rosetta.
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thanks ... I guess that is what I am doing now on leopard b/c I have intel. I never understood what Rosetta was until today... it's like a patch for PPC to intel I'm guessing. 😱
 
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