Whether or not
Snow Leopard build 10A432 is really the ready-for-shipment "golden master," Apple's own site is giving hope to the masses that its next platform iteration is gearing up for a launch sooner rather than later.
MacRumors is reporting that a Mac Box Set containing OS X 10.6 , iLife '09, and iWork '09 popped up on Apple's online store today priced at $169 for single users and shipping within 24 hours. The page itself no longer exists, although not before Google's spiders managed to pick up on it. It's probably wishful thinking to think this is indicative of a release before its projected September launch window -- and really, at this point, that's only a couple of weeks away -- if you were gonna hope for it anyway, here's some fodder for ya.
Read - Snow Leopard box set briefly appears in Apple Online Store
Read - Google entry for now-defunct page
posted August 19th 2009 11:06PM
No it's not supposed to make sense, it's just a dog, thunder, a face, & a crown... and if you can see it, cool!
You're confusing thunder with lightning. And what does iPhone emoji have to do with anything?
Ah, I was going to say that I can see the symbols but I now understand what you mean. What I see on a MacBook Pro running Safari 4.0.3 is 4 square symbols; I do not see the actual symbols that you are hoping to see.
I want the box.
They will probably ship the software in a box as perceptively large as that. You know, like shipping a pen in a multi-gallon container or Apple's own wasting by shipping the replacement wall charger for the iPhone 3G in a box probably 40x it's size.
You know what I hate? This productivity pack is cheaper than Windows 7. I just feel that Microsoft could do well with lower prices =(
It is possible that this may happen in the future. However, if Office continues to sell well at its current price points then Microsoft has no incentive to lower the price. This is essentially the same argument that says that Apple should cut the price of its computers and it is the same response. When Office sales begin to slow because no one feels the need to upgrade due to fewer "must have" features, for example, then Microsoft may have an incentive to reduce the price. I think this will happen but I could not say when.
how come they still call it 10.6, shouldn't it be at least version 16. If you buy version ten you should get the updates until they goto version 11 for free.
Um, who cares about the name? What is in the box is what is important. You'd have to address your question to Apple's Marketing department for the real answer and not the Engadget audience.
But this is still OSX jerk
Because most OS vendors that sell their OS products do this. Take MS for example Windows NT 3.1, Windows NT 3.5, Windows NT 3.51 or Windows 2000 (NT 5.0), Windows XP (NT 5.1), Windows XP X64 (NT 5.2) or Windows Vista (NT 6.0), Windows 7 (NT 6.1). Thats just on the NT code based versions. I'm not sure about the 95, 98, ME stuff off-hand. I don't see where this is any different in the least despite what anyone might say along the lines of service pack vs. full release arguments, which by the way are way past being old and tired at this point. I'm a Vista 64 user myself and I don't see any difference between the two camps at all other than a lot of wishful thinking.
By the way, that was not meant as a slam to either Microsoft or Apple. It was merely trying to show that its just a name and not something to be used to determine whether it should be free or not. I don't really get this whole deal of fanboys and getting all worked up about your OS or someone else's. They are just tools to be used. Each have their merits and uses and those that are professional will use the best tool for the job regardless of who makes it. For doing financial work it might be Windows, for doing audio mastering it might be OSX. It doesn't make one better than the other overall, it just makes them the best tool for the job.
One person might paint on canvas with brushes, another might paint on a brick wall with spray cans. They both might be masterpieces in their own way.
i just wish they'd offer an upgrade priced family pack for those with leopard, iwork '08 and ilife'08.