Snow Leopard to Launch Aug. 28th
- Filed under: Tech News
- Date: Aug 24,2009
Speculation about when Apple’s next iteration of Mac OS X will launch is now over, as on Monday Apple announced that Snow Leopard, or Mac OS X 10.6 will launch on Friday, August 28th.
This ought to please Apple shareholders and Apple’s bank account, at least if Piper Jaffray is correct. In a new research note to investors, Piper Jaffray forecasts that Snow Leopard OS will sell 5 million copies during its launch window in the September quarter. Apple had earlier announced plans for a September launch.
Snow Leopard will have an upgrade cost of a mere $29 for Leopard owners. Compare that to a Windows Vista -> Windows 7 upgrade.
Apple has marketed Snow Leopard as a stability and performance upgrade, rather than a feature-packed update. Wait, that’s what Windows 7 is, and once again look at what we’re going to have to pay!
However, Snow Leopard adds support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 to allow synchronization from Exchange to Mail, Calendar and Address Book on the Mac. Also, according to Apple, several built-in applications run much faster than previously.
Snow Leopard also supports OpenCL (Open Computing Language). This allows program to use cycles from a Mac’s GPU and use it for non-graphics tasks. Thank NVIDIA, which supplies the chips currently used in all Apple laptop and consumer desktop Macs, for that.
Mac OS X Server Snow Leopard will also go launch on Friday, August 28.
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