Mac OSX 10.6.0 - Snow Leopard

FYI if you havent heard

Snow leopard will be available for $30 in September for single user licenses. For a family pack - 5 licenses, it will be $50.

It will be available on all new machines starting Septmember 17th i believe.

 

It will only be available for that price if your previously purchased Mac (that shipped with 10.5) falls within the allowable time criteria.
The time period is from June 8, 2009 to December 26, 2009

 

damn it so whats msrp? i bought mine in december 08 i think

 

where did they say that time period? They said at wwdc back in june that along as you had an intel based mac with leopord its $29.

I'm gonna be buying it when its released.

 

I hope I don't have to pay MSRP for it, when I got my Macbook in December. That would suck.

 

Alright, thanks man!

 

anyone have an actual date of when snow leopard is coming out?

 

still listed as jus September.. Rumors about the 2nd or 3rd week.

 

yeah im looking forward to the 100% 64-bit support. ugh finally.

 

Don't get too excited..
This build is pretty nice (Build 10A432), still no 64 bit kernel by default. Quicktime has been re-tooled and is very nice. Jumping around in files is VERY fast.
To enable full 64-bit support, you can try it one of three ways:

* - Holding down '6' and '4' while your Mac boots.
* - Setting 'arch=x86_64' in the boot-args variable in NVRAM (type man nvram in Terminal for more info on doing that).
* - Edit the file /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist and add arch=x86_64 to the kernel flags.

The following model identifiers support a 64-bit kernel (you can check yours in System Profiler). Essentially, it's every model from 2008 onwards, except for the Mac mini, MacBook, 13 inch MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air.

MacPro3,1
Xserve2,1
MacBookPro4,1
iMac8,1
MacBookPro5,1
MacBookPro5,2
MacPro4,1
iMac9,1
Xserve3,1

Edit: Note that running the 32-bit kernel does NOT stop you from running 64-bit capable apps, and if you pay a visit to Activity Monitor, you'll see that almost everything still runs at 64-bit, even if the kernel doesn't.

 

I'm anxious.

 

It's sad that Snow Leopard available only for Intel-only.For those who still cruising along with PowerPC is done.The end of the road.

 

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MAC_OS_X_SNGL?cid=CDM-US-DM-P0008413-151063&cp=151063&sr=em

Pre-order by Wednesday. Get it by Friday. $30 - All users.

 

It's available August 28th.

 

Just ordered mine today. $31.45 shipped. Will be at my doorstep on Friday. And whoever posted having to purchase your Mac after a certain date was incorrect. Any current Leopard user with an Intel processor is eligible for that price. I bought my MBP 03/2008.

 

yeah.. although..

if you purchased your mac after June 2009, it is 9.95$ if you have a qualified Mac. Details on the site.

 

Jesus fucking Christ. I missed all the good shit. I bought mine on May 29th. Missed out on the free iPod and now this $9.95 bull shit.

 

That sucks man!

I got mine for Christmas last year.

BTW, what Mac did you get?

 

same page. Got my May 24th. Ugh.

 

Shut up.

Shut up. (13 inch MacBook, the silver one, but not the Pro one)

I'm not alone!