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Snow Leopard to ship by August 28?

By | August 21, 2009, 11:54am PDT

Summary: Yesterday the Snow Leopard (a.k.a. Mac OS 10.6) product page on Apple’s UK online store listed the ship date as “by August 28th” leading to speculation that Apple’s next-generation OS could be on the prowl as soon as next Friday. The August 28 date also briefly appeared on Apple’s online stores in the U.S. and Canada [...]

Yesterday the Snow Leopard (a.k.a. Mac OS 10.6) product page on Apple’s UK online store listed the ship date as “by August 28th” leading to speculation that Apple’s next-generation OS could be on the prowl as soon as next Friday.


The August 28 date also briefly appeared on Apple’s online stores in the U.S. and Canada but has since been changed to simply “September.”

The part number was previously leaked as MC209Z/A.

Snow Leopard will sell for $29 for Leopard owners ($49 for a family pack). If you purchased a qualifying Mac after June 8, 2009 with Leopard installed you can get a copy of Snow Leopard for a shipping and handling fee of $9.95 plus tax via Apple’s Mac OS X Snow Leopard Up-to-Date Program.

The Up-To-Date part number is MC204Z/A.

Picture: MacRumors

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Jason D. O'Grady

Jason D. O'Grady developed an affinity for Apple computers after using the original Lisa, and this affinity turned into a bona-fide obsession when he got the original 128 KB Macintosh in 1984.

He started writing one of the first Web sites about Apple (O'Grady's PowerPage) in 1995 and is considered to be one of the fathers of blogging. He has been a frequent speaker at the Macworld Expo conference and a member of the conference faculty. He also co-founded the first dedicated PowerBook User Group (PPUG) in the United States.

After winning a major legal battle with Apple in 2006, he set the precedent that independent journalists are entitled to the same protections under the First Amendment as members of the mainstream media.

O'Grady is the author of The Nexus One Pocket Guide, The Droid Pocket Guide, The Google Phone Pocket Guide, and The Garmin nuvi Pocket Guide (Peachpit Press), the author of Corporations That Changed the World: Apple Inc. (Greenwood Press), and a contributor to The Mac Bible (Peachpit Press). In addition, he has contributed to numerous Mac publications over the years, including MacWEEK, Macworld, and MacPower (Japan).

When he's not writing about Apple for ZDNet at The Apple Core, he enjoys spending time with his family in New Jersey.

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RE: Snow Leopard to ship by August 28?
pajcastle 25th Aug 2009
I have mine ordered and my invoice says "Delivery for August
28". The Apple store page still reads "pre-order for August
28 delivery".
So. I guess Apple thinks so, anywayz. It's easy enough to
check their site and see what THEY say.
If you learn how Apple OS's work, you'll understand what
you're buying a bit better.I think part of the price break for
"upgrade" isn't about a mini-version of the OS, it's just about
just having installed Leopard1 fairly short time ago.
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Who knows...
zkiwi 21st Aug 2009
Maybe LoveRock, NonZealot, No_Ax, ye, Ed Bott etc will be camping out to get their copies first.
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No
jdbukis@... 22nd Aug 2009
They dont waste there time with toy Operating Systems.

Sorry I couldnt resist.
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Really?
zkiwi 22nd Aug 2009
They seem to be fully entrenched with the toy OS called Windows.
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Funny, I've never heard...
msalzberg 23rd Aug 2009
UNIX called a "toy operating system;" at least, not by anyone who
understands anything about computers.
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Its not a Toy but its not an OS either
rparker009 24th Aug 2009
the OS of osX is unix.. so this make ox X.? just an overlay like windows 3.1 was.
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Apple too secrative!
javajunkie@... Updated - 21st Aug 2009
Will it ship with Java 5?

Not every app can move to Java 6.

Ok users are just copying Java 5 off of Leopard onto SnowLeopard but still.

I don't need the hype but just want the facts!
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I most likely will purchase the full install.
Mac Hosehead 21st Aug 2009
I will wait to check for sales, however.
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I thought all boxed copies...
Ben_E 22nd Aug 2009
...were upgrades only? The only way to get a 'fresh' copy is to buy a new Mac.
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Used to be
use_what_works_4_U 24th Aug 2009
Snow Leopard is the first version of OS X to have separate pricing for
upgrade v. full install.
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What?
Eleutherios 24th Aug 2009
My understanding is that if you run Leopard on an Intel Mac, you'll be
charged $29, whether you upgrade or do a full install. In other words,
when you put the $29 Snow Leopard in your drive (assuming you
qualify), you're invited to either upgrade or do a clean install (i.e., erase
your disk and install Snow Leopard from scratch). It's always been the
case with all the OS X releases I've bought over the last 7 years, it's no
different with Snow Leopard. The only difference this time around is the
fact that because Snow Leopard is not functionally much different from
Leopard, Apple has been willing to offer Snow Leopard for a token
amount to Leopard users.
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RE: Snow Leopard to ship by August 28?
pajcastle 25th Aug 2009
I have mine ordered and my invoice says "Delivery for August
28". The Apple store page still reads "pre-order for August
28 delivery".
So. I guess Apple thinks so, anywayz. It's easy enough to
check their site and see what THEY say.
If you learn how Apple OS's work, you'll understand what
you're buying a bit better.I think part of the price break for
"upgrade" isn't about a mini-version of the OS, it's just about
just having installed Leopard1 fairly short time ago.

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