It’s official: Mac OSX Snow Leopard arriving August 28
After weeks of speculation, the wait is over: Mac OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard will be available from Friday, August 28, Apple announced on Monday.
Apple said back in June at the WWDC 09 conference that Snow Leopard would be available in September, but after a few glitches to Apple’s websites in the UK and US, the new operating system is officially landing on August 28.
Mac OSX Snow Leopard will cost $29, as Apple considers it mainly a refinement over the current Leopard operating system. Those who purchased a Mac computer after June 8, can sign up to the Up To Date program, and receive a copy of Snow Leopard for only $10.
Some of the main improvements in Snow Leopard are:
- Full 64-bit operating system;
- Completely rewritten Finder app;
- Refined Expose, integrated in the Dock;
- Faster wake up and shut down times;
- Faster installation which frees up to 7GB of HDD space;
- Brand new QuickTime X media player;
- Higher resolution iChat;
- Automatic updates for printer drivers;
- Automatic time zone setup;
- PDF text selection in Preview;
- Microsoft Exchange support in Mail, iCal and Address Book.
Detailed information on all the new features and refinements found in Snow Leopard can be found here.
You can preorder Mac OSX Snow Leopard for $29 for a single user licence or for $49 for a 5 user Family Pack licence. Preorders should arrive on August 28.
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4 COMMENTS
Those multi-touch gestures are really annoying in Photoshop! Every time I do a gesture remotely similar to rotating, it keeps messing around with the orientation of the photo. I’ll give this one a try and see if it does the job…
I’ve downloaded this and changed the key commands but still have issues browsing the web with my type and page getting larger and smaller with a life of it’s own. How do I shut it off completely? Right now I set global commands to something different and it didn’t make a difference. Aargh! I hate it!
Are you using leopard or snow leopard? As in snow leopard you can now go into preferences and you can turn off the shortcut that irritate you from there.
In leopard I just did an overall key combination so it wouldn’t work in ANYTHING.
[…] When doing typical tasks such as browsing the Web or writing a document, there’s nothing more annoying than Apple’s new multi-touch gestures on the MacBook Pro trackpad. Until recently this was not a problem, as the undesired features could simply be turned off in the Preferences pane. However, after the release of the 10.5.6 OSX update, this option was removed, leaving many new Mac users in disarray . See more here: Stop the MacBook multi-touch trackpad having a life of its own […]
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