os x snow leopard

Apple announced today that the next version of OS X, version 10.6 (a.k.a. Snow Leapard), will go on sale starting on Friday, August 28th at Apple retail stores, Apple authorized resellers, and at Apple online. Snow Leopard includes:

  • Hundreds of refinements – approximately 90 percent of the 1000+ projects within OS X. Improvements include
  • More responsive Finder
  • Faster Mail
  • Faster initial backups with Time Machine
  • Dock with Expose integration
  • QuickTime X
  • 64 bit version of Safari 4 which is 50 percent faster
  • Half the size of previous OS X version and frees up approximately 7 GB of disk space
  • New core technologies including Grand Central Dispatch
  • New 64 bit components including Finder, Mail, iCal, iChat, and Safarai
  • Support for Microsoft Exchange 2007

    • Pricing for OS X Snow Leopard will be as follows:

    For 10.5 Leopard users, a single user upgrade license will cost $29 dollars while the Snow Leopard Family Pack will be available for $49.

    For Tiger users with an Intel Mac, the Mac Box Set which includes OS X Snow Leopard, iLife 09 and iWork 09 will be available for $169 while the Family Pack will be available for $229.

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