Snow Leopard Goes on Sale August 28

Apple today announced that Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard will go on sale this Friday, August 28.

Snow Leopard is said to have hundreds of refinements, new core technologies and support for Microsoft Exchange. Some of these refinements are; a more responsive Finder; Mail that loads messages up to twice as fast; Time Machine with an up to 80 percent faster initial backup; a Dock with Expose integration; QuickTime X with a redesigned player that lets you view, record, trim and share video; and a 64-bit version of Safari 4 that is faster and resistant to crashes caused by plug-ins. Snow Leopard is also half the size of the previous version, which will free up about 7GB of drive space once it's installed.

Apple's online store is now accepting pre-orders. Snow Leopard will be available as an upgrade for Mac OS X Leopard users for $29 (single user) on August 28, 2009 through Apple Authorized Resellers and Apple Retail Stores. The Snow Leopard Family Pack, a single household, five-user license, will be available for $49. For Tiger users with an Intel-based Mac, the Mac Box Set includes Mac OS X Snow Leopard, iLife '09 and iWork '09 and will be available for $169 and a Family Pack is available for $229.