Apple has revealed Leopard's releast date to be 26th October, confirming earlier rumours. "Packed with more than 300 new features, Mac OS X Leopard goes on sale Friday, October 26, at 6:00 p.m. at Apple's retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers, Apple announced today. And, beginning today, customers can place pre-orders on Apple's online store."
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Member since:2006-01-25
Thats kroc (pardon the intended pun), the Vista upgrade edition is the same as the standard disk, except that you need to enter a key from an old version of Windows. Vista Upgrade Editions are comparable with Mac OS X, as they do not offer any non-upgrade editions. You must own a previous version of the Mac OS (the one included with your Mac) in order to purchase the next one. And saying Leopard is a better OS then Vista doesn't make it true, neither does the supposed better localization features of Leopard. I'm personally one to hate Windows myself, but that is just a horrible comparison.
Member since:2005-11-12
Member since:2005-06-29
Actually my Windows Vista Business upgrade requires that I have a Windows XP install already accomplished...which requires me to put my windows 98 disc in during the upgrade.
It's hardly as convenient as me just putting the "upgrade" disc in the drive and installing like Mac OSX has allowed me to do since 10.1.
Member since:2005-08-11
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2005-11-10
No, let's compare like for like:
a) Leopard ships as a non-upgrade disc so that it can be installed on a blank hard disk. Upgrade Vista is not a comparable version therefore.
b) You can shop around for Leopard too, Amazon are selling it cheaply. But £300 is par for course and that still doesn't compare to Leopard
c) Okay. I just went by the eBuyer page that warned that you would need to contact Microsoft - also you don't get the extra disc with the home versions, so Leopard still trounces Vista here
d) There's been confusion over the education price. It is still $69. Even if Vista is cheaper on education, Leopard is still a better OS
e) Leopard now supports Russion, Polish and Iberian Portugese. XP didn't have more than one language on the disc, at least Tiger supported 20 odd languages whilst XP users had to buy new discs to change language. Tiger / Leopard have better localisation features regardless.