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Photos of Snow Leopard Disc and Retail Packaging?
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Its in the actual apple section. You won't find it with the other software.
and if it was "just online" it would say so
Here's hoping...
that 10.6.0 isn't nearly as buggered as 10.5.0 was (which was *worse* than 10.4.0 by my recollection). Seems like there's been a last minute rush to get Snow Leopard out the door well in advance of Windows 7. But this feels like one time when Apple can't do it's usual "Beta" release with the first product on sale, especially since Windows 7 is getting some very good reviews at it heads to GM.
For sure, I've already pre-ordered it at Amazon. And I suppose the good news is that if it really does ship this early Apple will have 10.6.1 out by the end of September if past activity is any indicator, which is when I originally calendared doing some initial upgrades on select Intel machines based on the rumored release date.
But given that Apple seems to have really hyped Snow Leopard as the flagship OS of the Intel chipset's future at Apple, the everyday users who simply buy and upgrade as soon as they receive the DVD really don't need any nasty surprises waiting for them.
that 10.6.0 isn't nearly as buggered as 10.5.0 was (which was *worse* than 10.4.0 by my recollection). Seems like there's been a last minute rush to get Snow Leopard out the door well in advance of Windows 7. But this feels like one time when Apple can't do it's usual "Beta" release with the first product on sale, especially since Windows 7 is getting some very good reviews at it heads to GM.
For sure, I've already pre-ordered it at Amazon. And I suppose the good news is that if it really does ship this early Apple will have 10.6.1 out by the end of September if past activity is any indicator, which is when I originally calendared doing some initial upgrades on select Intel machines based on the rumored release date.
But given that Apple seems to have really hyped Snow Leopard as the flagship OS of the Intel chipset's future at Apple, the everyday users who simply buy and upgrade as soon as they receive the DVD really don't need any nasty surprises waiting for them.
Does your BestBuy not have an Apple section?! Pshaw... it's time they come into the now! A lot of BestBuys have been updated to include a rather chic area, marked by a large black wall with a glowing
on it... https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/482183/
And the pic in that thread had the white iMacs, so it's been a while...
And there is also Mac Software sold in these sections.
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Well the cover art on the website isn't distinct enough to be something different than Leopard. It could easily confuse people. After all, I expect you can still get Leopard for months so both versions could lie on the shelf.
I know. But if they would use those new images for the cover art, it could easily be mistaken for Leopard.
Its not a wrong spelling!!! With the new ortographic reform the agreement is that both "optimizado" , "otimizado", or other example such as: "acção" or "ação" are both CORRECT!!
looking forward to what the final outcome will be when this hits stores. I always thought "Snow" leopard was just a code name and that it would have been stripped for the retail naming convention. Not sure i equate snow leopard and streamlined in the same breath.
Let me say this. I despise your completely irrational, unobservant ilk. You're asking Apple and every other company to reverse the very process that enables you to write your ignorant response. Capitalistic industrialization has given us longer, healthier, happier, easier lives that any other system in the world. Care to juxtapose prior forms of rule to it: Feudal Europe, enslaving common folk to toil under a hot day's sun, producing little, feeding few, and living in squalor; Communistic Russia, enslaving common folk to each other, economically creating a race to the technological bottom; Socialist Germany, little needs to be said. If you want so badly to stop capitalism and industrialization, then USE CAPITALISM. STOP BUYING PRODUCTS. GIVE UP ADVANCED INDUSTRIALIZED TECHNOLOGY. LIVE IN TECHNOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SQUALOR.
why does microsoft care what the hardware costs? they get the same amount and that's for the PC manufacturers to figure out.
I don't think you know how the world works...
Capitalism is the absolute most corrupt system we've had. To it's core. Economic failures have proven it's instability. What has improved lives is DEMOCRACY. It has nothing to do with Capitalism. In fact, Feudal Europe, which you refer to as a bad thing, is the PINNACLE of Capitalism.
And yes, it should be EVERYONE'S responsibility to protect the environment. The consumer, the COMPANY, and the government.
Not being associated with the Premium end of the market absolutely sucks for image and branding. And MS is in desperate need of mindshare.
Not to mention folks like Larry Ellison have given away billions to improve the lives of millions. In fact, Larry did it first.
However, both don't give squat away without tax write offs.
Bill Gates will impress me when spends money in third world countries on Water distribution and purification solutions. Malaria nets are nice, but having clean water to change a region's entire ecosystem is far more dramatic in change.
What I want to know is who got the "money shot" of the actual snow leopard cat? Do they also have some HD video B-roll? Who shot that content?
That's one good looking cat.
Rocketman
That's one good looking cat.
Rocketman
is mindshare an actual metric that equals revenue? I don't think it is,because even if their mindshare" is in desperate need, they are sitting at about 90% market share without even a hint of a drastic change. back to the original post, i still don't believe that snow leopard is what they are calling it, and i am not a fan of the box art. But, i probably will upgrade after the first update.
What he said
btw acção/ação means action, just for the curious ones
Everything about this box makes me think it's legit, but with that said... I wouldn't bet my money on it!
Apple's marketing of Snow Leopard is both bad PR, especially for longtime customers, and risky.
I smell a class action lawsuit here.
It's like a total kick in the balls to PowerPC users who paid $129 for Leopard and have late model G5s from the last 2-4 years, many of whom bought Leopard for $129 without knowing it was going to be a dead-end operating system that would only be BUG-FIXED & OPTIMIZED for Intel-ONLY.
It's like saying, "Hey we fixed all the problems in Leopard for Intel users, screw you PowerPC users, you suckers you! Oh but thanks for your $129. Now GET LOST!"
PS: I don't favor such lawsuits btw, as I rarely use my $9 coupons that make millions of dollars for sleazy lawyers, but I do think it's a good possibility considering Apple has broken a 25 year precedent in operating system support for its computers and in effect, prematurely ended the possibility of giving some of the Snow Leopard bug fixes and optimizations to PowerPC users, most of which paid the same $129 for Leopard.
Great. Then you won't mind when they design it better for the people who do
Put it in a brown card CD wallet and take 10p off the price.
that can be for the UK version. The US version, with proper spelling can have the cat
How did Snow Leopard's marketing turn into a Leopard problem for PowerPC users ? If that's the basis of your class-action, you won't even get as far as finding an attorney, much less getting class-action status.
The last G5 model Mac was released in 2005. That's 4 years of support for a machine that is now slower than a modern Mac Mini. Gotta draw the line somewhere. Personally I don't see the problem sticking with Leopard on these PPC machines. It's a good OS. Most of the big architectural changes in SL such as GrandCentral and OpenCL require modern hardware anyway. If there were a large amount of UI changes and enhancements I would have more sympathy for the PPC folks but you're not actually missing out on anything your hardware could take advantage of.
Fixing problems is not the same as introducing new features and optimizing existing code, especially when some of those optimizations are happening only because older hardware is being left off the compatibility list. And Apple has a history of continuing to issue fixes and security updates for older versions of OS X even when newer ones come out. (Didn't we just see a security update for Tiger?)
I think PPC users have little to nothing to complain about. I own two PPC Macs myself and I have no qualm with this. It's been a good ride but all things come to an end. And it's not like all those PPC machines out there just fail to function anymore once SL comes out. My iBook G4 and iMac G4 will continue to be good machines even as my newer iMac leaves them behind. What's the big deal?