Snow Leopard for $30.00 :)

[nikonnut]

Hello all,
I was trolling the interpipes today an came across this...

www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9134128&intsrc=news_ts_head

Looks like 10.6 is comming in September with an upgrade price of $29.99 for a single user license and $49.99 for a family license. I can't wait!

[reddrag0n]

Quoting XLR8yourmac.com from the WWDC...

Snow Leopard pricing and release date - Pricing for Snow Leopard (for Intel-based Macs) was announced at WWDC. $129 list with a $29 upgrade for OS X 10.5 users. 5-license family pack is $49. "Coming September 2009". They also announced Mac OS X Server Snow Leopard (full 64-bit), claimed to be up to twice as fast as previous versions.

[aquamac]

Hi Guys,

I just saw this too. Looking forward to the official release. As far as hackies go, there will have to be a fair amount of work done to get all the drivers upgraded to 64 bit ones. Also items such as sound will require more work to get the 64 bit AppleHDA.kext going. However, the Voodoo.kext does seem to work. I got everything going on 10a354 except restart/shutdown. Also, there is nothing like a good challenge!

[ginz111]

Official: Mac OS X Snow Leopard doesn't support PowerPC Macs

By AppleInsider Staff
Published: 02:00 PM EST

Documentation included with copies of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard distributed during Apple's developer conference this week confirm that the next-generation operating system does not presently support Macs with PowerPC processors.

LogicielMac.com has published a screen capture of the PDF-based requirements document included on the Snow Leopard disc that provides a rundown of the system's requirements.

The documentation states that in order to install Snow Leopard, developers must have a Mac computer with "an Intel processor" and at least 512MB of RAM, though additional memory is recommended for development purposes.

The findings confirm an AppleInsider report from last September, which cited people familiar with the ongoing development of Leopard as saying that Mac OS X 10.6 would in all likelihood exclude support for PowerPC processors.

According to the Snow Leopard documentation, the new system will also require an Apple-supplied video card, 9GB of hard disk space, and either an internal, external or shared DVD drive.

[amantheboy08]

I picked up the Snow Leopard Developer Preview WWDC 2009 at of course of WWDC, works perfect on Macbook Pro, soon going to try it on my PC. To see how it goes. 10A354 didn't work for me that well.