Still haven’t upgraded to Snow Leopard? What about trying the next best thing and making it look like you’ve upgraded? While there’s no reason not to upgrade given Snow Leopard’s low price, if you’ve still haven’t gotten around to upgrading yet, you can experience what it’s like to at least pretend you’re on a Snow Leopard machine by using its wallpaper. Download link after the bump.
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Rumours of a pre-September release of Snow Leopard have proven themselves to be true, as Apple today announced the official release date of Leopard’s successor. Apple retail stores and Apple authorized resellers will carry Snow Leopard this Friday, and Apple’s online store is now accepting pre-orders. It will be available as an upgrade for Leopard users for only $29.
Not that it matters whether you actually do have Leopard at all. A confirmed report states that the $29 upgrade disc will even work on a newly formatted drive, despite Apple’s implications of otherwise. Although this might end up breaching a ToS agreement, savings of over $100 by skipping the official Snow Leopard box set and still getting the full-blown OS makes upgrading difficult to resist. What to expect? Quicker startup, shutdown, and application speed, full 64-bit and multi-core support, OpenCL, better Universal Access support, and support for Microsoft Exchange.
[via Apple]
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It looks like the packaging for Apple’s next major release, Snow Leopard, has been leaked on the internet, hinting to us that launch time is coming up quick. While there’s no official release date yet, you can wager a hefty sum that it’s going to be released at the upcoming September event, or as some sources even indicate, earlier. The packaging itself on the other hand shows a change of design to depict an actual snow leopard on the cover, ditching the X logo. As far as Apple’s history in design consistency goes, it’s uncertain that this will be the final disc packaging.
[via MacRumors]
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