The most Powerful Advanced Operating system finally Tuned and launched today on friday 28 august 2009
Now that release was a pretty major bump over 10.4, so anything short of an OS capable of making breakfast and serving it up in bed for us would likely be greeted by a yawn from the Apple faithful. But evolutionary as it is, 10.6 packs enough goodness into itself that it's difficult to see too many Macs running 10.5 by year's end. Here's why:
1. It's smaller. In a world where every new version of a thing is inevitably bigger, fatter and heavier than the thing it replaces, it's pleasantly shocking to see Apple swimming against the tide. Once the upgrade process is completed, the average Mac's hard drive will have available about 6 GB more space. Sure, that's barely enough to stuff a couple of movies, but merely the principle of making the OS smaller in the first place is enough for me.
2. It's cheaper. We've been conditioned to paying triple-digit prices for operating systems almost since the beginning of the PC era. If Apple had asked for $129 for a 10.6 upgrade (the same price it asked for 10.5) I'd probably have carefully weighed the nice-to-have-but-hardly-necessary benefits against the price approaching that of the iPod nano I need for the car. But for 29 bucks, enough to cover a few frames of bowling for me and the munchkins, it's a fast, discretionary purchase. (Amazon has marked prices down even further, to $25 for the basic upgrade package, or $43.99 for the five-user package.) I could get used to this mad money OS pricing strategy, and I'd rather spend it on this than on a game I absolutely abhor.
Snow Leopard also has enough goodies stuffed inside that it'll provide far more than $29 in entertainment value alone. Since that money will go a lot further on my wife's and son's Macs than it would watching a lousy movie next to a bunch of unruly theater-goers and munching overpriced, stale popcorn, I'm voting we cancel the family movie night on Saturday and stay in. My wife and son are already backing up their data, and have scheduled some time on the weekend to bump their machines. And I didn't even have to work on them.
Description: Mac OS X Snow Leopard launch Today On friday
Rating: 4.5
Reviewer: dev
ItemReviewed: Mac OS X Snow Leopard launch Today On friday
Now that release was a pretty major bump over 10.4, so anything short of an OS capable of making breakfast and serving it up in bed for us would likely be greeted by a yawn from the Apple faithful. But evolutionary as it is, 10.6 packs enough goodness into itself that it's difficult to see too many Macs running 10.5 by year's end. Here's why:1. It's smaller. In a world where every new version of a thing is inevitably bigger, fatter and heavier than the thing it replaces, it's pleasantly shocking to see Apple swimming against the tide. Once the upgrade process is completed, the average Mac's hard drive will have available about 6 GB more space. Sure, that's barely enough to stuff a couple of movies, but merely the principle of making the OS smaller in the first place is enough for me.
2. It's cheaper. We've been conditioned to paying triple-digit prices for operating systems almost since the beginning of the PC era. If Apple had asked for $129 for a 10.6 upgrade (the same price it asked for 10.5) I'd probably have carefully weighed the nice-to-have-but-hardly-necessary benefits against the price approaching that of the iPod nano I need for the car. But for 29 bucks, enough to cover a few frames of bowling for me and the munchkins, it's a fast, discretionary purchase. (Amazon has marked prices down even further, to $25 for the basic upgrade package, or $43.99 for the five-user package.) I could get used to this mad money OS pricing strategy, and I'd rather spend it on this than on a game I absolutely abhor.
Snow Leopard also has enough goodies stuffed inside that it'll provide far more than $29 in entertainment value alone. Since that money will go a lot further on my wife's and son's Macs than it would watching a lousy movie next to a bunch of unruly theater-goers and munching overpriced, stale popcorn, I'm voting we cancel the family movie night on Saturday and stay in. My wife and son are already backing up their data, and have scheduled some time on the weekend to bump their machines. And I didn't even have to work on them.
