Yes folks, you read that correctly. Snow Leopard will be a $29 upgrade for Leopard users, and will hit stores a month before Windows 7. Typical Mac OS upgrades run about $129, so this is certainly a welcome surprise. As opposed to OS upgrades of the past, many of Snow Leopard’s more significant changes are under the hood, working to increase system efficiency and speed. Without out a slew of “killer features” to promote, some wondered how Apple would be able to convince users to fork over $100+ for a new OS. Now we have our answer. $29 bucks is a steal. Well done Apple, well done.
A family pack will run about $49. Unbelievable deal.
You can check out a complete list of Snow Leopard’s enhancements and refinements over here.
June 8th, 2009 at 11:44 am
Wow,
That’s pretty cool. I’ll pirate it anyway, but $29 seems a lot more than fair.
June 8th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Wow!
That’s pretty cool. I’ll buy the $49 family pack, which seems plenty fair enough.
June 8th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
And your source for this revelation?
June 8th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
The source, Donald, is from WWDC today. How do you get an internet connection under a rock?
June 8th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
@Aaron – typical mac user
June 8th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
@lol – typical asshole
June 8th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Wow, they got it right. I was planning on pirating it and making my own DVD, but for around 30 bucks after tax, why not just buy the thing?
June 8th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
I guess ZFS was worth $100, since that’s nowhere in Snow. 🙁
I’d rather it be $129 and include ZFS. Why Apple! Why!
June 9th, 2009 at 6:36 am
Snow Leopard is really just upgrading and fine tuning OS X for 64 bit, it is not going to be anything revolutionary. (Not putting down SL, I am sure it will work fine and do what it promises. I will certainly be buying it at $29).
SL is also probably the end of major development for OS X, and the next big thing from Apple will be a ZFS based, 64 bit, OS 11, which I look forward to very much. (It would have been nice to get it in SL, but I would rather they took their time and did it properly, from the ground up.)