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Apple's UK Online Store Lists August 28th Ship Date for Snow Leopard Up-to-Date Program

pdjudd said:
You really cannot use the term "all" with a sample size of two. The announcement can happen on any day of the week. I really doubt that Apple has a hard rule that says "OS announcements can be only made on Tuesdays"
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Okay, you're right. I looked all dates up. It doesn't prove my point, but it's nice for trivial questions :)

(OS version / availability announced / release date):

Mac OS X 10.0 - March 7, 2001 (Wednesday) - March 24, 2001 (Saturday)
Mac OS X 10.1 - Released as an update on September 25, 2001 (Tuesday)
Mac OS X 10.2 - August 23, 2002 (Friday) - August 23, 2002 (Friday)
Mac OS X 10.3 - October 8, 2003 (Wednesday) - October 24, 2003 (Friday)
Mac OS X 10.4 - April 12, 2005 (Tuesday) - April 29, 2005 (Friday)
Mac OS X 10.5 - October 16, 2007 (Tuesday) - October 26, 2007 (Friday)
Mac OS X 10.6 - ?
 
rpp3po said:
As I see it, not everybody yelling how much SL sucks must count. We never know when these people had their last clean installation (maybe during Tiger times), what kinds of tweaks and "performance enhancers" they had installed, and wether their machines once crashed will iTunes or whatnot was writing to disc. He might say now, that everything was of course clean as a white collar, but hey, he is also trying to sell, that he is under NDA... ;)

I have imported and tagged (including artwork) about 10GB worth of music this week on a clean 10A432 installation. iTunes was stable as ever.
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I've been running it on my Hacintosh for a week now. It's quite quick and fairly reliable. Audio is sketchy, but that's my problem. I can't say I've encountered any showstopping issues, but I'm not running it as my main OS (and won't till the second dot release) so I can't say I've tested it thoroughly. I realize I'm not saying much here, but I guess the point of this post is to say it isn't terrible but as with all OSes the first release is when the real testing happens. Give it till December.
 
I remember a similar thing happened with the release of Leopard. Leopard was nowhere to be seen in the online store and Apple had'nt given a date or timefram of release for Leopard. They had the old OS, Tiger in the online store, though it said it wasn't shipping until a certain date...the exact date that Leopard would ship when released. Everyone was speculating when it would be released...


But I was young a didn't know how to voice my findings to MacRumors!
 
pdjudd said:
If you are doing an up-to date form, just do it here. Otherwise, if you are trying to get teh regular Snow Leopard, you cannot since the pre-order has yet to be announced.
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I already mentioned that when I click link in there it says I have no items in my cart. It won't let me pre-order :(
 
I wonder how much slower this would make my already slow 2.16GHz White Macbook with 2GB of ram and the dismal GMA950 graphics.
 
VolcomLegend said:
I'm in the UK and I had to mail in the forms when I ordered for up-to-date as online wasn't working. If I check the status via up-to-date it says that they received and approved my application and I will be charged when they ship. If I log into my account on the Apple Store, there is no note of an order at all - is this correct? Should I have something in my store account? No activity on my CC yet.
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Same here. Spoke to Apple Customer Service and that is correct ... They gave me a link to check out the application status.

I guess we'll just get an envelope/box thru the door!!

HTH

- D
 
GodWhomIsMike said:
I wonder how much slower this would make my already slow 2.16GHz White Macbook with 2GB of ram and the dismal GMA950 graphics.
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What are you basing your 'slow' claim on?

It should play quite nicely with your Macbook. Do a clean install and maybe slap a 7200 rpm drive in there.

I'm running it now on a Mac Mini 2.0 Ghz with 1 Gig of ram and the thing I can tell is dragging it down is the slow 5400 RPM HD.

As long as my HD isn't thrashing around, it's quite snappy.
 
Sorry if it's been stated before, but I'm not reading through a hundred posts to find it.

The US version of the page says SL is shipping in September again.
 
My wishful thinking is they put the ship date back to September so that in the next week they can “announce” that it's being released a month ahead of schedule.

With all the announcements of GMs, box shots, and employee training, I can’t really imagine a late September release… maybe a September 4 release, but I’m still hoping August 28.
 
What i love about this story is

No matter what site and time of posting - all sources i've seen state the UK store as saying 28th of August - even though all the other sites followed suit later :rolleyes:

And there are a few of them that missed it - and are dismissing it as like 'despite what screenshots say' its says September

I just thought that was funny :p
 
GodWhomIsMike said:
I wonder how much slower this would make my already slow 2.16GHz White Macbook with 2GB of ram and the dismal GMA950 graphics.
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Actually, though I've not run the os myself, I have seen it running on an older 2.0GHz black macbook just like the one I'm using right now. From what I've seen and heard, It's going to make it faster and leaner. Noticeably faster.
 
GodWhomIsMike said:
I wonder how much slower this would make my already slow 2.16GHz White Macbook with 2GB of ram and the dismal GMA950 graphics.
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Since you have a Core 2 processor, you’ll be able to run everything in 64-bit. That should result in at least a minor speed boost. See here (3rd paragraph): http://www.macworld.com/article/142379/2009/08/snow_leopard_64_bit.html. The system also has a dramatically smaller foot print, which I’ve *heard* makes things snappier, too.

Do a clean install, and perhaps consider a faster harddrive or more memory. That should solve your problems. If it's still dog slow even after a clean install you might have hardware problems. =/
 
MedHead said:
Not that I can find, if we dont hear something by 10:30 then I really dunno is it being announced today! C'mon :apple:
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It's FRIDAY!

Nobody announces new products on Fridays as it gets lost over the weekend. The day Apple announces the release the online store will go down in the early am.
 
Great news but am not installing this baby until someone confirms software compatibility...

Does CS3 and CS4 work fine with it? How about Logic 8 and Reason 4? How about Guitar Rig 4? Lightroom 2? RapidWeaver? Kinemac? Unity? etc...

Would hate to install it then play with my thumbs for XY amount of weeks before devs release the SL patches...

Can anyone confirm on this software compatibility!?!
 
Sky Blue said:
It's FRIDAY!

Nobody announces new products on Fridays as it gets lost over the weekend. The day Apple announces the release the online store will go down in the early am.
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IT-Pro said:
Okay, you're right. I looked all dates up. It doesn't prove my point, but it's nice for trivial questions :)

(OS version / availability announced / release date):

Mac OS X 10.0 - March 7, 2001 (Wednesday) - March 24, 2001 (Saturday)
Mac OS X 10.1 - Released as an update on September 25, 2001 (Tuesday)
Mac OS X 10.2 - August 23, 2002 (Friday) - August 23, 2002 (Friday)
Mac OS X 10.3 - October 8, 2003 (Wednesday) - October 24, 2003 (Friday)
Mac OS X 10.4 - April 12, 2005 (Tuesday) - April 29, 2005 (Friday)
Mac OS X 10.5 - October 16, 2007 (Tuesday) - October 26, 2007 (Friday)
Mac OS X 10.6 - ?
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It may be Friday, but as IT-Pro pointed out, they announced 10.2 on a Friday. Even so, I agree that the store probably should be down if they are planning on making any kind of announcement...
 
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