Snow Leopard Roars On The 28th

Quoting Apple’s press release statement, Snow Leopard is set to ship this Friday, August 28th.

CUPERTINO, California—August 24, 2009—Apple® today announced that Mac OS® X v10.6 Snow Leopard™ will go on sale Friday, August 28 at Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers, and that Apple’s online store is now accepting pre-orders. Snow Leopard builds on a decade of OS X innovation and success with hundreds of refinements, new core technologies and out of the box support for Microsoft Exchange. Snow Leopard will be available as an upgrade for Mac OS X Leopard® users for $29.

With pre-orders being accepted it’s just a matter of days before the world has its hands on the latest iteration of Apple’s much acclaimed operating system.

Snow Leopard

Instead of bringing a boatload of new features, Apple chose to instead rewrite most of the operating system to improve user experience and performance. On the surface to the untrained user there will be little noticeable differences from Leopard to Snow Leopard but under the hood performance is vastly improved. This improves performance of applications significantly.

Snow Leopard also comes with support for Microsoft’s Exchange Server 2007, a first for a consumer oriented desktop operating system.

There are a lot of things to like about Snow Leopard, from faster performance, a totally new Quicktime application all the way to Expose being integrated to the dock. However, the thing I like most is the price. With a $29 price tag for current Leopard users, upgrading is dirt cheap. You won’t even have to think about it. Apple said they want all Mac users to upgrade to the new operating system hence the low price. Power PC users though won’t be able to experience Snow Leopard as it is only available to Intel Mac computers.

With all the good things that comes with Snow Leopard the only thing I probably don’t like about it is the box cover design. Oh well, nothing is perfect.

Read the complete press release here.