UPDATED: Snow Leopard to Debut on Aug. 28

Nicole Martinelli ()

UPDATE: Ah, well it looks like the store was down for Snow Leopard, which you can pre-order now but ships Aug. 28.

Some of the changes (“refinements”) to the latest version:

Activate Exposé right from the Dock.
Wake from sleep and shut down faster than before.
Install it more quickly — and get back 7GB of disk space.
Dozens more tweaks for everything from iChat to Preview and more.

If there are any other major differences to the Apple store, we’ll let you know.

The Apple store is down. Mac World speculates it’s for the next release of Snow Leopard.

I’m hoping for more of a shake-up — price drops, new product.

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We’ll keep you posted.

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Ed
This would likely explain why a MacBook Pro I ordered last week isn’t scheduled to arrive until September 1st, even though it’s already been shipped. My guess is that it’s going to arrive with Snow Leopard on it already and they can’t deliver until it’s been officially released!
CaryMG
Man oh Maneschevitz am I jazzed for this ….
I already bought mine & it’ll be here next Monday.
And 7 gigs of freespace?
That’s insane.
APPLE ROOLZ !!11!1!
Matt
PREORDERED! So pumped
imajoebob
Any talk on gratis updates for recent buyers? I know it usually takes a little time and pressure for Apple to actually admit that customers who buy a system and aren’t told their software is, efeectively, obsolete the minute they leave the store are being ripped-off, but they’ve been getting better.
29 bucks is a pretty good deal for an update, but it’s still a lousy way to treat a someone who just dropped a couple grand in your store last Tuesday. And you knew about it when they did.
Cadoo
You can get it for ten bucks for if you bought after June 8th. http://www.apple.com/macosx/uptodate/
MacRat
Did anyone notice that the Apple Store page for the $29 copy of Snow Leopard only updates Leopard installs?
I don’t recall Apple $29 announcement at WWDC saying that it wasn’t a full installer.
Steve
3 Macbooks in my house and Snow Leopard on order. Betting on the fact the anticipated 5 million purchases will boost my Apple stock value enough to pay for the order.
Philip C.
Well, this is kind of sad. . . first Mac OS X I can’t run on my PowerBook G4.
Jan
Does anyone here know if I can upgrade a single-user license of Leopard to a family license of Snow Leopard? Or does a Family Pack upgrade only work for a family pack version of Leopard?