http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/ Engadget Comments for Snow Leopard pre-orders now being taken at Amazon http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/Aug 1st 2009 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/
I would only considering getting this if Apple puts strict controls over what software I can install on my computer. I want them to only let me install a software once they review it and consider it OK for me to use it.


]]>Aug 1st 2009 5:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/Aug 1st 2009 7:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/Aug 1st 2009 7:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/because us windows users definately arent being ripped off for upgrading to 7!]]>Aug 1st 2009 8:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/n i consider win 7 to be vistas sp3 yet you still pay out the ass for that release]]>Aug 1st 2009 8:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/
In all honesty, I think it is pretty cool that Apple is selling Snow Leopard so cheap. It is more than just a service pack, since the OS has been further optimized (referring to size and speed)

@ Nick

Stop being a troll

@ Wat Up

Stop being a troll and stop writing like a 12 year old (unless you are one, then all the power to you) ]]>Aug 1st 2009 8:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/Why is it that Windows folks’ are always so concerned with how much us Mac folks spend? Are you genuinely worried that I paid too much for something that doesn’t offer any tangible benefit? Honestly, I appreciate your concern so maybe you could run some errands for me and that will make it all better.
Regards,
]]>Aug 1st 2009 11:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/
I am assuming that you are responding to me since you used the initials of my avatar, however your response has nothing to do with what I wrote.

In case you were wondering, I am not a windows user but a Linux user, hence the Linux being free joke. I also could not care less about what you spend your money on. I am however interested in technology, including pricing. Therefore I find it quite interesting (and extraordinary) that Apple would release their new operating system (more than a service pack in my eyes) for such a low price.

I hope I did not hurt your precious feelings with my previous comment.]]>Aug 2nd 2009 12:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/Aug 2nd 2009 5:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/
Both seem really awesome though, win 6.1 and mac 10.6

Cept one is priced nicely and the other is a tired joke with a suite of different punch(es to ur wallet) lines]]>Aug 2nd 2009 9:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/
Windows 7 is version 7. If it was 6.1 it would be called that, but it is very clearly called Windows 7. It has huge changes at every level of the system, from major updates to the kernel (allowing it to scale to 512 cores, make better use of memory, etc), to brand new top-level UI, to completely rewritten apps, to brand new tech like multi-touch and HomeGroup, great new APIs like Direct2D, device support features like WBF and Device Stage, performance improvements all around, and much more. The GetVersionEx API returns "6.1" for compatibility purposes, as app and driver compatibility was a top goal for Windows 7. Is that where you're getting "6.1" from?

Most people who call Snow Leopard a "service pack" are referring to the fact that the features in it were largely or entirely provided to Windows users by service packs. Things like a 64-bit port, proper DEP/NX and ASLR support, etc, came in XP SP2 / 2003 SP1. While it's great that Snow Leopard is smaller because it drops PowerPC support, that seems like a somewhat odd thing to pay for. That said, there are clearly some other new things in SL like the Dock tweaks to make it work more like the Windows taskbar, new QuickTime, the GrandCentral thread pool stuff, and features like being able to restore items from the trash bin. On the whole, $29 seems like a perfectly reasonable price (kind of like what MS charged for Windows 98 SE).]]>Aug 2nd 2009 7:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/Aug 1st 2009 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/Aug 1st 2009 7:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/
No. You can just install the upgrade over your existing 10.5 install to, well, upgrade it.]]>Aug 1st 2009 8:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/
]]>Aug 1st 2009 8:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/..is that sarcasm? ]]>Aug 2nd 2009 7:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/
If you have had the sense to back up your data onto another drive (such as with Time Machine) and preferably stored in another location to your computer then this is not the sort of question that you should be needing to ask. Upgrading to 10.6 will not destroy your data unless you format the drive/partition with your data first. However, your hard drive may (and most likely will) fail at some time in the future and so you need to be prepared for that eventuality today.

With external hard drives costing absolute peanuts these days there simply is no excuse for not backing up.]]>Aug 2nd 2009 7:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/Aug 1st 2009 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/Aug 1st 2009 5:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/Aug 1st 2009 6:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/2. to have a DMG, so i dont have to rip the original DVD, for VMWARE and stuff like that...
3. because I can]]>Aug 1st 2009 6:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/Aug 1st 2009 6:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/I make sure all of my ratios are under 0.010, for my own safety.]]>Aug 1st 2009 7:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/I make sure all of my ratios are under 0.010, for my own safety."

Geez thanks, so that means your Boy George discography isn't going anywhere?]]>Aug 1st 2009 7:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/Aug 2nd 2009 3:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/
Sorry, I can't put that any more lightly.]]>Aug 2nd 2009 7:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/Aug 1st 2009 5:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/
... crap, I thought this was Digg ]]>Aug 1st 2009 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/Aug 1st 2009 5:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/]]>Aug 1st 2009 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/Aug 1st 2009 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/Aug 1st 2009 5:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/
Yes; Free Dollars.]]>Aug 1st 2009 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/
No, but Windows 7 is a Vista service pack, and yet is priced significantly higher.]]>Aug 1st 2009 6:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/Anyone who says 7 is a Vista Service Pack has never used 7, or doesn't know what is meant by "Service Pack". Windows 7 is a pretty large upgrade to Vista. It is far larger than the change from Leopard to Snow Leopard. If you think 7 should be Vista SP3, then you are basically saying you think SL should be 10.5.9.]]>Aug 1st 2009 6:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/Aug 1st 2009 7:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/Aug 1st 2009 8:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/ Win98 -> WinMe upgrade sequence cured me of windoze fandom. When will you be healed?]]>Aug 1st 2009 8:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/Aug 4th 2009 5:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/
This is 29 bucks. ]]>Aug 1st 2009 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/Aug 1st 2009 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/Aug 1st 2009 5:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/
I dont own a mac btw]]>Aug 1st 2009 5:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/Aug 1st 2009 5:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/Aug 1st 2009 5:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/
(No I am not a Mac fanboy or a Apple fanboy, I don't even own one single apple product. (yes i don't have an iPod))]]>Aug 1st 2009 7:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/
Mac users are not homos, they are just simple pretentious smugs.


jk.]]>Aug 1st 2009 5:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/Aug 1st 2009 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/01/snow-leopard-pre-orders-now-being-taken-at-amazon/Aug 1st 2009 6:10PM