Snow leopard out this week...

[Brad]

Available to buy on the UK store and says will ship by 28th August!

[SegaMark]

...And I can't seem to order the £7.95 copy for my new MBP as the cart is always empty.

ANNOYING.

[Brad]

Love reading the Apple haters on the blogs about this They must have a permanent anti-apple clipboard set up on their PCs lol.

[punio75]

So.. if i buy an Apple imac this week it will come with Snow leopard?
Also 20" or 24"? worth the money?

[NekoFever]

I've ordered it. Always enjoy playing with OS updates - I'm a masochist, I guess - and I'm not going to complain for £25.

So.. if i buy an Apple imac this week it will come with Snow leopard?

Probably not immediately, but you will qualify for a cheap upgrade (£7.95). Give it a couple of weeks or ring up the Apple Store and ask.

[SegaMark]

So.. if i buy an Apple imac this week it will come with Snow leopard?
Also 20" or 24"? worth the money?

I'd get a 24", it's what I got and the screen is a beast.

Just managed to order my copy for ?7.95 for my 13" MBP.

[fuse]

Get the feeling my poor under-powered Mac Mini won't see much improvement out of it, but I am intruiged by it and at £25 can't really grumble. Put an order in earlier and looking forwards to having a play

[fishbowlhead]

Stuck my order down too. ?25 for a new OS to buy is nothing really.

[ChrisF]

Missed this thread earlier when I posted about ordering it

Looking forward to it, but I have to admit, I am somewhat scared about upgrading. I have NEVER installed OSX. Never had to do a re-install on any of my mac's (all two of them). I currently have a MacBook running Leopard, and a Powerbook (remember them eh?) running Tiger. Tiger still running a treat though (shame the same can't be said about the battery).

Good upgrade price too. Kind of makes a mockery of the Windows 7 upgrade prices. But then, the reverse is true of having to pay £7.95 for upgrades for OSX... those are free in Windows world. Win some, lose some

Bring it on!

[Fei Fong Wong]

^
It's easy to upgrade OS X. The default install option will be upgrade which just copies the new files over your Leopard install. Hopefully we can still choose to do Archive & Install though which would be my preference: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1710

[CMcK]

I've never done a fresh install of OS X since our first iBook which ran Panther. Probably should clean things up a bit.
I'll be popping into the Trafford Centre for a copy of Snow Leopard at the weekend. Shame it's Intel only as most of my family have G4 powered Macs.

[Brad]

First version of OSX to have an upgrade option I think.

[Ginger Tosser]

So.. if i buy an Apple imac this week it will come with Snow leopard?
Also 20" or 24"? worth the money?

If you buy it on Friday it should the Snow-Leopard disks dropped inside the box. OS on the Mac will still be Leopard, you'll just have to update it yourself. That's probably from an Apple store though. Get one through PCShed it'll probably still ship with Panther

[Strolls]

Get the feeling my poor under-powered Mac Mini won't see much improvement out of it, but I am intruiged by it and at ?25 can't really grumble. Put an order in earlier and looking forwards to having a play

You might well be surprised. Previous releases of OS X have usually shown speed improvements over the preceding one, especially noticeable on older hardware.

And since they finally managed to put the Services menu in the right place, who knows what else Apple may have fixed?

First version of OSX to have an upgrade option I think.

[Brad]

I'm not wrong again am I Strolls? I've always had to buy a full version in the past I think? Usually costs about £50 or £60 from Dabs or somewhere.

Also, will Snow Leopard even run on non 64 bit hardware?