Snow Leopard goes to print

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Still on for release next month. I for one am excited. I also commend Apple for this release, focusing on efficiency rather than features. I hope we'll see some of the more disappointing aspects of Leopard ironed out. I would commend them more highly if they hadn't rushed Leopard in the first place. Windows 7 is actually quite nice (been using the RC on my PC for some time now), so there's going to be some good ol' fashioned competition going down. Be interesting to see what shakes loose from it.

Also it's nice to see Exchange support coming to Mac. If you can get people to actually use it (it was required last time I was in the corporate world), the scheduling and collaboration features make it one of Microsoft's better contributions to the computer world. Plus it means mac users can interface with the Windows world better without resorting to Entourage. Which was never a terrible program (it actually was far superior to Mail.app in the beginning), but it doesn't integrate with the system like the iApps do.

Though, I do have to admit, Mac fan though I may be, I can't help but feel this ought to be a point release (I know, every cat is a point release technically, but that's because Apple decided to break with convention in order to maintain the '10'). At least they recognized that to some degree by making it cheap. Still...$29 for a big service pack?

 

[Covar]

Theres a ton of refactoring going on under its hood that makes it more than just a big service pack. The results might seem small to the enduser but there are some huge and expansive changes to the way OSX runs, that to me at least justify the $30 tag.

I must admit, I'm greatly looking forward to it.

 

[strawman]

$30? That's reasonable. Still boils my blood that someone used the serial number of my mac mini to get their $10 upgrade.

-Adam

 

[GeneralOrder24]

It's apple. The $39 cost of something that should be free is just their standard markup to ridiculous prices.

 

[Espy]

Yeah, this is a pretty big step up and paying a few bucks for it seems like a reasonable swap. If anyone thinks it should be free they really don't know what all is going into this.
Besides it's not like they charge you over 300 dollars for the full version of their operating system.

 

[Bubble181]

Big changes under the h ood but little difference for the end user is worth a $30 pricetag? Meh. Try comparing win XP vanilla with Win XP with the 3 (free) service packs, and tell me that ISN'T a major retooling under the hood.
Either it's a new OS, or it's a big service pack. They need to make it clear. And if it's a new OS, it's a mighty small upgrade. Don't need to fix what ain't broke, I suppose. Eh.

 

[Roxxoredizorz]

WOOHOO x64! More ram for my MacBook!