Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
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Hey, at least we don't have to pay $120 for this when it releases! Or heck, wait for new features like our counterparts. Not that I don't love the look of Apple hardware.
Yes, Huy, of course Apple makes you pay 120$ every 6 months for a reliability service pack. In reality, Apple sends out 10.x.x updates every so often (usually once every two months) that do for OS X what this reliability pack does for Vista.
Apple puts out an OS X release about every 2-3 years. All of these provided brand new features, performance enhancements, and new frameworks. Take 10.5, Leopard for example. Not only are you getting the cool end user features such as spaces, the new dashboad widgets, new dock, new menubar, stacks, ext. Apple also includes many under the hood improvements such as core animation which allows for flashier animations and user interfaces, (as well as makes them much easier to write), full 64bit support through the application level, and better, more efficient use of multicore processors to name a few.
Apple puts out alot of releases of OS X, and sure, they do cost money, but most of them are really worth it. Just because each version isn't named OS 11, OS 12, ext. doesn't mean it isn't a major update.
@ Luigi
You sure know "300 new features" doesn't mean new features but performance upgrades/ changes like the one MS is offering here. I can find a free 3rd party application for every "revolutionary" piece of new software apple adds to OS X.
Admit it, you pay $129 for a SERVICE PACK every second year. Cat names are running out. Wonder what's the next service pack gonna be called.
@ Dinraj:
Leopard is to tiger like vista is to xp. Vista has a few new features, new development tools and many under the hood improvements. Leopard also has new features, as well as a new version of Xcode and new applications for building and testing apps, and many new things under the hood such as full 64bit support to the application level, and core animation.
Apple does release service packs in the form of 10.x.x updates. Tiger on my macbook works perfectly fine. Very fast and stable.
I'm sorry that you don't like Apple, but Leopard is worth the 130$. Before screaming out BS, why don't you learn the facts. With your logic, Vista could be considered to be a service pack to xp, which we all know it isn't.
@Luigi
Maybe you should learn about platforms. Vista is NOT build over XP. Vista was built on a skeleton Windows Server 2003 codebase. So it's not like leopard which is built on top.
Leopard is like Windows XP 2. XP2 had 'under-the-hood improvements in the codebase, new features. I could find "300 new features" in XP 2, if someone paid me.
This entry talked about performance upgrades. I get vista upgrades every second week alongwith security updates ever since I bought mine in april - Your 10.x.x release types. This one's a nice pack that would probably patch the kernel itself for bugs.
Really sorry, seems like you need another reason to justify paying for your OS X service packs.