By Jin Nan Goto

I spent some time today with my newly upgraded Mac Mini.  I installed Snow Leopard and as I was setting up file sharing with my Windows PCs, I saw something that I found quite amusing.  Showing that people at Apple have a wicked sense of humor, the Icon representing a “PC Server” (in this case it was my Laptop running the Windows 7 RC) showed a distinctive and quite familiar sight for a a PC user.  You can see for yourself below.

Now apparently this has been around for quite some time, but since I’m a relatively new Mac user (having left Apple for Windows 95 and being an exclusive PC user until a little less than a year ago. And using Windows 95 I certainly encountered my fair share of blue screens.) this was the first time I had noticed it and I’m surprised how many times I pulled up this screen and never noticed it.  It made me smile and shake my head a little.

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.