OS X Snow Leopard Shipping this Friday
By Jin Nan Goto
Apple announced today that the newest version of it’s Operating system, 10.6 Snow Leopard will be released Friday August 28th 2009. It will come out almost a month before Microsoft’s October 22nd Windows 7 launch. Snow Leopard does not add many new features, Native support for Microsoft Exchange is one, but most of the changes are under the hood designed to optimize and improve the overall performance. The upgrade price for those who have the previous version of OS X (Leopard) is only $29 which is dramatically cheaper than the previous Apple OS upgrades. The upgrade for 10.4 Tiger to 10.5 Leopard was $129. Although for those who are still running 10.4 Tiger the upgrade will be higher ($169 and includes Snow Leopard, iWork 09 and iLife 09) and those with PowerPC processors will not be able to upgrade at all. Still Snow Leopard seems to be a great addition for your Mac at a very good price.
