Amazon begins accepting Snow Leopard pre-orders
updated 11:35 pm EDT, Sun August 2, 2009
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Amazon has begun taking pre-orders for the forthcoming Mac OS X Snow Leopard. The company is offering the software for Apple's announced price of $29 for OS X Leopard users. The retailer also provides an "Upgrade Path Alert" designed to notify customers that the upgrade is only available for Intel computers currently running OS X Leopard.
Amazon is also accepting pre-orders for Snow Leopard Server, along with family packs bundled with iLife '09 and iWork '09. A five-license family pack, Mac Box Set and Family Pack Mac Box Set are available for $49, $169, and $229, respectively. Snow Leapord Server carries a price of $499. The Amazon listing states that although Snow Leopard is scheduled for a September release, no official date has been announced.
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Anyone know if us Leopard owners, if we buy the $29 upgrade option, can use that disk to blow away our machines and rebuild them, or is this just a $29 version that just overwrites our existing systems?
For major OS updates I prefer to blow away the drive and do a reinstall every few years, but I don't want to be stuck with a $29 coaster if it won't let me reboot to the DVD and blow away my system.
Thx!