Snow Leopard is imminent

[Synaesthesia]

10A432 is the Golden Master, and has been seeded to the Apple Developers, as well as the usual torrent sites ... Looks like Apple are set for a launch sooner than expected. John Gruber says 28 August, and he has been uncannily right lately about Apple.

Who else can't wait?

 

[phiber]

28th would be good... When will CORE get copies though ?

 

[StbA]

2-3 weeks later

 

[GreGorGy]

2-3 weeks later

...and R500 to R600 markup later

 

[Synaesthesia]

Ya. Well. Freakin Core. But I reckon it will probably cost like R400.

 

[Ou grote]

I'd go with R650 and in December.

 

[VertigoZA]

I'd go with R650 and in December.

I see your R650, and raise you another R50 + 2 months.

 

[GreGorGy]

I see your R650, and raise you another R50 + 2 months.

My only concern of course is that a core staffer reads (yes, the one that can read) this and reports:

"We only have to deliver at the end of the year and we can get away with R700"

Think I'll order it from UK and see which arrives first and cheaper. Expect a report back...

 

[Ou grote]

My only concern of course is that a core staffer reads (yes, the one that can read) this and reports:

"We only have to deliver at the end of the year and we can get away with R700"

Think I'll order it from UK and see which arrives first and cheaper. Expect a report back...

I said December, I did not mention the year.

 

[titeroper]

Perused an Apple store over the weekend and they said that if you buy a macbook pro now, the step up upgrade will be R100 for SL, release end of September - andyes, it was a Core store

 

[MidnightWizard]

Stru

Perused an Apple store over the weekend and they said that if you buy a macbook pro now, the step up upgrade will be R100 for SL, release end of September - and yes, it was a Core store

Can confirm that.


MW

 

[VertigoZA]

Those are the up-to-date packs. they've always been cheap. In fact I think they used to be around R45 for Leopard up-to-date.

I want to know what retail price will be for Snow Leopard Upgrade.

 

[hammell]

Amazon in the US has SL on pre-order for $29.99. I'm just going to get a friend in the US to buy it and post it over to me with my internal company post. Should work our to about R250 or so? One of the folks at Core said to expect SL upgrade to be about R1300 - so that makes it a R1000 markup...

 

[Grimspoon]

Will SL be a big step up from leopard?

 

[ponder]

Will SL be a big step up from leopard?

Most changes are under the hood.

 

[StbA]

Faster, cause the PPC architecture is completely removed.

 

[Ou grote]

On the apple site
http://www.apple.com/macosx/

 

[burn]

Friday 28th confirmed for the rest of the world

 

[koffiejunkie]

Faster, cause the PPC architecture is completely removed.

Having PPC compatibility stuff available doesn't make it slower. It just uses more disc space.

 

[StbA]

Having PPC compatibility stuff available doesn't make it slower. It just uses more disc space.

I disagree, having more app lib's to go through to execute a command makes an app slower. Take a assembler app and compare to a c++/VB/.net app, the assembler is going to execute much faster than the c++/VB/.net.

But dont take my word for it, try www.grc.com, he codes in assembler and switched to Mac about 2 years ago.