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Apple’s new version of OSX, Snow Leopard, will be released at the end of the month in the US. According to Amazon UK they’re releasing it on September 4th, while the Irish Apple Store says it will ship by August 28th.
I’ll probably order a copy in the next couple of days …
From what I’ve seen the most important change is in relation to Mail, as the support for Microsoft Exchange is a lot tighter. Whether or not it will be able to deal with my rather unwieldy mailbox or not is another matter, but we live in hope! I was running some tests using a developer release in the last few weeks, but the hardware I was using was pretty terrible, so I don’t think any results I got were anywhere close to realistic. (The laptop in question is so knackered that you have to leave it plugged in permanently!)
In any case you’ll probably see the entire technology media (both online and offline) gushing about Snow Leopard in the coming weeks. There’ll be plenty of positive reviews, of that you can be sure. You’ll also find plenty of really negative reviews.
However, one thing people won’t be able to pick on too much is the price. At EUR 29 for the box it works out quite a lot cheaper than Microsoft’s flagship product. Of course it’s more “expensive” than an Open Source OS like Ubuntu…
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Ordered the family pack for my various flavours of Mac floating around myself and family!
I’m looking forward to the lessened bloat. Not that Leopard is bloated, but I’ll always accept a speedier machine!
On the price point, it is more expensive then Ubuntu etc., but there’s more application support then on Ubuntu or other popular linux distro’s… so it’s well worth it.
I do feel sorry for the Power PC Mac owners though… left out, in the cold, as it were…
Kevin
I’m waiting on my copy – ordered it shortly after I posted this 🙂
Michele