It’s been announced by Apple (and everyone else) that the next version of Apple OS X (Snow Leopard) 10.6 ships this Friday, August 28th. Apple is taking pre-orders as of this morning at the apple store.
I’ve already placed a family pack pre-order via Amazon, since I’ll have a number of computers to upgrade. If your in a hurry ordering it directly from Apple ($29 single / $49 family pack 5-lic.) is probably the way to go or quicker still pick it up Friday at a local Apple store.
I will upgrade, but I think that I’ll wait to hear your impressions! :-) I know that you’ll be the first kid on the block to do it! Go, Earl! Go!
@Paul: I hope the “retro bug” doesn’t make you want to install Window 95 on that MacBook Pro. ;-)
Mac OS 6, with its coarse pixel graphics, that’s retro. :-)
I will stay tuned too, seeing what good comes with 10.6, and if it’s worth the effort.
I placed my order with the Apple store yesterday! If it is intel only, my laptop will have to get by “as is.”
@Don: Yea, Snow Leopard OS X 10.6 is for Intel based Macs only. The older PPC computers/laptops will have to stay at Leopard OS X 10.5
A dead line of pixels just turned up on my pretty new PB 17″, crap. I have never had to return a Apple product before. I gave my PB 15″ to my son, what to do, what to do… Giving it the necessary service, updating to the new OS at the same time, and resting from digital photo editing for a while? Difficult.
@Ove: What a bad stroke of luck. I’ve never had to return an Apple product either. I understand how hard it is to do without when you’re use to having it.
As long as I read that it doesn’t break some of my current critical software – like Photoshop CS3, Dreamweaver, and Lightroom, I’ll probably become an early adopter. But I will certainly wait for that reassurance first.
@Mark: I’m a little worried some applications may break as well. So, I’ll probably do an install on my laptop first, testing my main applications there, before upgrading my main Mac Pro. I’ll share any problems I may run into.
I received notice from Amazon today that they estimate delivery of my Snow Leopard package by September 1st.
I noticed that Adobe released that CS3 won’t be officially supported for Snow Leopard. Not supported doesn’t necessarily equal “doesn’t work” but shame they took that stance. I am sure they know that many Mac users have chosen to skip CS4 because they know 64-bit isn’t coming until CS5.
@Mark, Yea, I saw that this morning and I agree Adobe could have taken a little better stance on the CS3 situation. It seems Apple and Adobe have a bit of a love-hate relationship.
I did upgrade to CS4 a while back.
@Earl: I just noticed your ‘retro’ comment. That was low! :-) You know how I feel about Windoze!
@Paul: I was wondering how you let that “Windoze” comment pass. :-)