Snow Leopard pre-order announcement

Ok, what we die hard Mac fans have been waiting for, the next release of OS X!  There was a reported leak on the UK Apple Store the other day that indicated Snow Leopard would be available, ahead of the announced “sometime in September” timeframe we had been hearing.  They pulled that, but it was spot on.

Today I received two emails, one directly from Apple this morning (Alaska time) and this afternoon from MacMall.  Both announced ‘pre-order now’ to get your copy on Friday the 28th.  Of course, I plopped down the $29 to Apple (which included shipping.)

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I’ve been running the Developer Preview for a while on my 17″ MBP.  It works great and I haven’t suffered too many issues with the beta.  For the most part, all my software runs fine.  There is the new release of Remote Desktop, and with the anticipated release of Server Admin Tools for 10.6, I will be all set.

Icing on the cake, in my small world, was the addition of the beta build of VMware.  I had been selected, but to date, hadn’t installed it.  Since the release version of Fusion doesn’t run with the 64-bit OS X kernel, I decided to see if this is addressed in the beta.  Sure enough, I started up VMware beta and it works great!  I loaded all my images, including 32 and 64-bit versions of XP, Vista, Windows 7, and Ubuntu.  Updated all the VM Tools and things are running stable.

So, run, don’t walk and pre-order your copy of 10.6.