Amazon on weekend started offering pre-orders of the upcoming Mac OS X version 10.6 and on Monday the OS topped Amazon.com’s bestseller list. “You may pre-order it now and we will deliver it to you when it arrives,” Amazon said on the Snow Leopard sales pages.
Snow Leopard, officially called Mac OS X version 10.6, will be sold for an upgrade price of $29 for a single license and $49 for a “family pack” of up to five licenses. Apple announced Snow Leopard’s pricing nearly two months ago at its annual developers conference, when it said it would sell the OS for just $29, rather than the $129 it has charged in the past.
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard is an update to Apple’s popular Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard operating system. This will be the first OSX release that is Intel only, leaving users with the older PowerPC Macs out of luck. Snow Leopard will offer a performance boost, as Apple has moved the platform over to a 64-bit kernel, which offers support for a virtually unlimited amount of system memory. Apple’s own applications will run natively on the 64-bit OS, making them run much faster.
Amazon is also taking pre-orders for the server edition of Snow Leopard, called Mac OS X Server version 10.6. The 64-bit Unix server OS doubles the speed of its predecessor and includes software called Mobile Access Server, which provides businesses with access to firewall-protected network services for iPhones and Macs.
Apple made it clear right from the start that Snow Leopard would have very little in the way of new content or extra flashy bells and whistles, but would concentrate on reducing the operating system’s footprint and making it more stable and secure.
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I am now planning to switch to mac as windows is going down the well