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Mashable has spotted a little image manipulation magic in the packaging for Apple’s imminently-released Snow Leopard OS….the cat on the cover isn’t as savage as the feline you’ll load into your machine, it seems.

As the story goes, the Snow Leopard you’ll see on screen appears on your desktop you’ll see just a little blood on its teeth, while the same cat on the cover has had the tell-tale traces removed.

It’s interesting that Apple’s pulled a punch depicting just how feral its WIndows 7-devouring OS is. And it is.

Parallels has introduced an all-in-one solution for Windows users seeing sense and making the switch to Mac, Parallels Desktop Switch to Mac Edition.

The software makes the move to Mac easy, helping PC users make the move without losing the applications and data they already have on their Windows systems. It also includes learning resources – including two hours of video tutorials – for new Mac OS X users.

Parallels Desktop Switch to Mac Edition includes Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac, so when a user has transferred their data they can boot up straight into Parallels Desktop to access their Windows apps and data, and learn the new platform in their own time.

Parallels has also developed a "plug and click" system that moves the entire PC (licensed operating system, applications, files and data) to the new Mac. This includes the Parallels High Speed USB Transfer Cable that connects the two machines and the Enhanced Parallels Transporter: simple, wizard-driven software that walks the user through the move in a few easy clicks.

"The growth in switching is partially due to the ease-of-use and cool capabilities of the Mac," said Serguei Beloussov, CEO of Parallels.

"However, users don’t want to lose the data they have accumulated and the applications they are already familiar with. Building on our proven track record of Mac innovation, we have addressed this concern and made learning the new operating system even simpler through interactive on-demand tutorials. These are combined with intelligent moving tools and our industry-leading Parallels Desktop for Mac, which offers the greatest performance and stability for running Windows seamlessly on Mac."

Parallels Desktop 4.0 Switch to Mac Edition is available from today at Apple stores, at Apple.com and through other preferred retail partners in English, German and French. It costs $99.99.

Apple’s announcement that Snow Leopard will indeed ship on August 28 (as we predicted) has generated a fresh rash in sales of the software, even as the company’s UK price for the essential Mac upgrade generates shrieks of anguish from Mac users there.

Snow Leopard pre-orders once again seized the top two slots on Amazon’s best-selling software list, following Apple’s announcement. The single-user version of Snow Leopard ($29) is the best-selling version, hotly-pursued by Mac OS X Snow Leopard Family Pack (5-User) in second place. Interestingly, iLife ’09 remains popular at number 9.

These strong pre-orders reflect analyst sentiment for Apple’s sales of its new OS. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster believes Apple will sell “approximately 5 million copies” of Snow Leopard during the remainder of the current quarter.

UK users have been wondering why Apple hasn’t enabled them to pre-order the new OS, unlike in the US. With the £25 price tag now announced, local UK Mac websites are carrying unhappy comments from customers who had expected to pay under £20 for the upgrade.

While Snow Leopard costs a great deal less than Windows 7 Family Pack – £150 compared to the Mac OS X Snow Leopard UK price of £39 – customers still feel the price difference can’t entirely be explained away by local tax and shipping costs.

"Why does the UK Mac customer always get ripped off by Apple? I know that £25 is cheap for an operating system (albeit a minor upgrade) but you can’t help but be annoyed by the much cheaper US version,” one customer complained.

UK users are also being warned the software won’t ship until September 4 if ordered through Amazon’s UK store.
 

Facebook developer, Joe Hewitt, has joined the throng of developers hitting out at Apple’s App Store approvals systems, but unlike others is saying there should be no App approval at all.

Writing on his blog, he vented his frustration at the process, which has hampered the release of Facebook 3.0 for iPhone, which remains unapproved.

Stressing that he isn’t speaking for Facebook and insisting he’s no intention of abandoning iPhone development, he says: “I have only one major complaint with the App Store, and I can state it quite simply: the review process needs to be eliminated completely,” he writes,

“Does that sound scary to you, imagining a world in which any developer can just publish an app to your little touch screen computer without Apple’s saintly reviewers scrubbing it of all evil first? Well, it shouldn’t, because there is this thing called the World Wide Web which already works that way, and it has served millions and millions of people quite well for a long time now.”

“This is all about lawyers, not quality, and it shows that the model of Apple’s justice system is guilty until proven innocent. They don’t trust us, and I resent that, because the vast majority of us are trustworthy.”

We’ve come across this useful Wiki page detailing numerous applications, both independently-developed and otherwise, which offers advice as to whether the apps are compatible with Snow Leopard.

While we’re aware the page has existed for a while now, we thought it probably a good time to remind readers of its existence.

As it is a Wiki, you can contribute to the data on the page should you come across a new app that does/doesn’t work, or should you be a developer checking for erroneous information.

Go see. And while you do, it may be worth taking a look at some of the available books detailing how to make the best out of the new OS, scheduled to begin shipping worldwide from this Friday.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Steve Jobs has been spending most of his time since returning on the "mythical" tablet.  According to those in marketing (which generally means the hardware work is complete), Jobs is poring over every minute detail.   This is typical for Jobs who did the same thing leading up to the release of the iPhone.

Since his return in late June, the 54-year-old has been pouring almost all of his attention into a new touch-screen gadget that Apple is developing, said people familiar with the situation.  Those working on the project are under intense scrutiny from Mr. Jobs, particularly with regard to the product’s advertising and marketing strategy, said one of these people. The people familiar with the matter declined to give details on the tablet or disclose when the device would come out.  Mr. Jobs’s focus on the tablet has been jarring for some Apple employees, who had grown accustomed to a level of freedom over strategy and products while the CEO was on leave, said a person familiar with the matter. "People have had to readjust" to Mr. Jobs being back, this person said.  Mr. Jobs, in an email, said "much of your information is incorrect," but didn’t provide specifics. A spokesman for Apple, Cupertino, Calif., declined to comment.

In a good sign, people say that Jobs’ health is improving significantly, though he is still thin.  It wasn’t mentioned whether or not he’d show up at the September iPod event but it is certainly a positive sign.

 People close to Apple said Mr. Jobs is still thin as he recovers from the liver transplant, but his health has improved significantly.

In some more background on the tablet project the WSJ says that the tablet has been a long time coming.  The WSJ elaborates on why the tablet has been killed twice: 

At Apple, a tablet-like device has been many years in the making. Apple filed a patent related to a tablet device as early as 2000, according to a Thomson Reuters patent database.  But development has come in fits and starts. Mr. Jobs killed the project twice in recent years, the first time because the battery life was too short, and the second time because there was insufficient memory, said one of the people familiar with the matter.

Another jab at those Laptop Hunter ads.  This one has David Putty from Seinfeld.  We’d like to see more of him.

Also another ad, "Surprise", debuted below:

With Blackberry’s aquisition of Torch Mobile today (horrible website btw!), Webkit literally owns the mobile browser space.  This is important as the browser becomes the platform for a growing number of mobile web apps – which Torch Mobile alludes to in its press release:

Torch Mobile is excited to announce that our company has been acquired by Research In Motion (RIM), one of the most renowned mobile technology companies in the world. Our team of developers will join RIM’s global organization and will now be focused on utilizing our WebKit-based mobile browser expertise to contribute to the ongoing enhancement of the BlackBerry® platform.

Torch Mobile’s team of highly skilled developers has been actively involved in Open Source development and includes contributors, Commiters and Reviewers of the WebKit project. As part of RIM, these developers will continue to be active participants in the WebKit development community.

All of the leaders in the Mobile space are now using Apple’s open source Webkit platform, which is only a few years old.  Blackberry, Nokia’s Symbian, Android, Pre and iPhone are now all using Webkit by default.  Windows Mobile is the odd one out.  Interestingly, Torch Mobile made a Webkit browser for WM6 – it was actually touted on tis website more than its Blackberry browser.  Perhaps this was another reason for the purchase.

Nokia broke out its top secret laptop computer plans today.  We don’t know about you but we were expecting a little more than this new "Booklet 3G".  It’s hard to still be considered an innovative company when they come out with stuff like this:

Espoo, Finland – After more than 25 years as a pioneer and leader in the mobile industry, Nokia will bring its rich mobility heritage and knowledge to the PC world with the new, Windows based, Nokia Booklet 3G.

They are about 3 years late on the Netbook scene as well as a year past the 10+ Hour battery life "revolution".  There also looks to be plenty of space around that 10-inch glass screen, making it a bit of a "clunker" when it comes to netbook size.  Most major netbooks have had 3G capabilities for awhile too.  

Take a garden variety Eee 1005HA.  10.5 hours battery life, 10.1 inch screen.  $375

This isn’t a low end netbook, mind you.  There is some good stuff inside which will put it at the high end of the highly competitive netbook arena:

The mini-laptop also comes with an HDMI port for HD video out, a front facing camera for video calling, integrated Bluetooth and an easily accessible SD card reader. Other premium features include the 10-inch glass HD ready display and integrated A-GPS which, working with the Ovi Maps gadget, can pinpoint your position in seconds and open up access for a truly personal maps experience. The Nokia Booklet 3G also brings a number of other rich Ovi experiences to life, whether its access and playback of millions of tracks through the Nokia Music Store, or using Ovi Suite to sync seamlessly from your Nokia smartphone, to your mini-laptop, to the cloud.

If it is priced anywhere north of $350, it won’t sell.  Otherwise it will fit in an already muddied field dominated by ASUS, HP, Dell and Acer.  Oh, and why not run Maemo Linux like the much more interesting N900?  Microsoft just made Office for Nokia Symbian phones, coincidentally.

Snow Leopard is now officially coming August 28th, though it had been anticipated for awhile because of webpage slips and tracking information on Amazon shipments.  Apple has now posted a press release (below) and changed its homepage …slightly. 

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CUPERTINO, California—August 24, 2009—Apple® today announced that Mac OS® X v10.6 Snow Leopard™ will go on sale Friday, August 28 at Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers, and that Apple’s online store is now accepting pre-orders. Snow Leopard builds on a decade of OS X innovation and success with hundreds of refinements, new core technologies and out of the box support for Microsoft Exchange. Snow Leopard will be available as an upgrade for Mac OS X Leopard® users for $29.

“Snow Leopard builds on our most successful operating system ever and we’re happy to get it to users earlier than expected,” said Bertrand Serlet, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering. “For just $29, Leopard users get a smooth upgrade to the world’s most advanced operating system and the only system with built in Exchange support.”

To create Snow Leopard, Apple engineers refined 90 percent of the more than 1,000 projects that make up Mac OS X. Users will notice refinements including 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 Exposé® integration; QuickTime® X with a redesigned player that allows users to easily view, record, trim and share video; and a 64-bit version of Safari® 4 that is up to 50 percent** faster and resistant to crashes caused by plug-ins. Snow Leopard is half the size of the previous version and frees up to 7GB of drive space once installed.

For the first time, system applications including Finder, Mail, iCal®, iChat® and Safari are 64-bit and Snow Leopard’s support for 64-bit processors makes use of large amounts of RAM, increases performance and improves security while remaining compatible with 32-bit applications. Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) provides a revolutionary new way for software developers to write applications that take advantage of multicore processors. OpenCL, a C-based open standard, allows developers to tap the incredible power of the graphics processing unit for tasks that go beyond graphics.

Snow Leopard is the only desktop operating system with built in support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, and it allows you to use Mac OS X Mail, Address Book and iCal to send and receive email, create and respond to meeting invitations, and search and manage contacts with global address lists. Exchange information works seamlessly within Snow Leopard so users can also take advantage of OS X only features such as fast Spotlight® searches and Quick Look previews.

Mac OS X Server Snow Leopard, the next major release of the world’s easiest to use server operating system, will also go on sale Friday, August 28. Snow Leopard Server includes innovative new features such as Podcast Producer 2 and Mobile Access Server and is priced more affordably than ever at $499 with unlimited client licenses. More information and full system requirements for Snow Leopard Server can be found at www.apple.com/server/macosx/.

Pricing & Availability
Mac OS X version 10.6 Snow Leopard will be available as an upgrade to Mac OS X version 10.5 Leopard on August 28 at Apple’s retail stores and through Apple Authorized Resellers, and online pre-orders can be made through Apple’s online store (www.apple.com) starting today. The Snow Leopard single user license will be available for a suggested retail price of $29 (US) and the Snow Leopard Family Pack, a single household, five-user license, will be available for a suggested price of $49 (US). 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 a suggested price of $169 (US) and a Family Pack is available for a suggested price of $229 (US).

The Mac OS X Snow Leopard Up-to-Date upgrade package is available to all customers who purchased a qualifying new Mac system from Apple or an Apple Authorized Reseller between June 8, 2009 and the end of the program on December 26, 2009, for a product plus shipping and handling fee of $9.95 (US). Users must request their Up-to-Date upgrade within 90 days of purchase or by December 26, 2009, whichever comes first. For more information please visit www.apple.com/macosx/uptodate. Snow Leopard requires a minimum of 1GB of RAM and is designed to run on any Mac computer with an Intel processor. Full system requirements can be found at www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html.

Don’t expect this to show up on your iPhones anytime soon.  Real has submitted their Rhapsody subscription service app to the iPhone according to a report by GDGT.  Apple has been pretty strict on its "duplicates features of existing applications" with respect to music applications being copies of iTunes mobile.  However, with the ZuneHD coming along with a streaming subscription option, Apple *might* consider letting a subscription app hit the iPhone or even unleashing a service of their own..  

Another all-you-can-eat subscription streaming service, Spotify, is also currently in App Store Purgatory after submitting its streaming app last month.  Spotify has the advantage of being backed by the Music industry titans and having an offline cached mode – which Real says will be part of the 2.0 version.  The Real Rhapsody App will be free of charge but require a $15/ month subscription.  IF it ever hits the app store.

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A few readers have mentioned that their Snow Leopard shipments have been locked in and are still expected to arrive on August 28th.  They can no longer make changes to the order.

"My snow leopard disc went to "PREPARED FOR SHIPMENT" today… can’t modify or cancel it anymore :-)"

The Apple Store still has an email reminder for Snow Leopard.  Amazon, the only retailer taking pre-orders, prices are still as follows:

10.6 Snow Leopard: $29
Family Pack (5-User): $49
Box Set (SL, iLife, iWork):$169
Box Set Family Pack (5U):$229
Snow Leopard Server  $499

It looks like someone isn’t going to have to pay the $10 up-to-date program fee.  Engadget Japan is reporting that their tipster bought a Mac Mini in Japan on August 20th which included a Snow Leopard installation DVD.  Is it possible that a few slipped out on the wrong pallet before the supposed August 28th release date, or is this another hoax?  Either way, in a week, this likely won’t matter.

A tipster has written in that developers have received a new build of Snow Leopard that will be the GM – 10A435.  We’re posting supposed screenshots.  Apparently there is even a new Addressbook application being burned to those discs due out later this month. We’ve got some confirmation requests into a few other developers but no one else has recieved this build.  So, we’re posting these images as perhaps real, perhaps not.  More screenshots below:

Thanks to Michael

Apple today posted an interesting response to the FCC inquiry into their denial of the Google Voice application.  In a nutshell, it isn’t AT&T that influenced Apple to deny Google Voice, though they do have a "no VoIP on AT&T’s network agreement" in place and have since the beginning.

The reason Apple gave for denying the app (or keep it in purgatory as they say) is that:

The application has not been approved because, as submitted for review, it appears to alter the iPhone’s distinctive user experience by replacing the iPhone’s core mobile telephone functionality and Apple user interface with its own user interface for telephone calls, text messaging and voicemail. Apple spent a lot of time and effort developing this distinct and innovative way to seamlessly deliver core functionality of the iPhone. For example, on an iPhone, the “Phone” icon that is always shown at the bottom of the Home Screen launches Apple’s mobile telephone application, providing access to Favorites, Recents, Contacts, a Keypad, and Visual Voicemail. The Google Voice application replaces Apple’s Visual Voicemail by routing calls through a separate Google Voice telephone number that stores any voicemail, preventing voicemail from being stored on the iPhone, i.e., disabling Apple’s Visual Voicemail. Similarly, SMS text messages are managed through the Google hub—replacing the iPhone’s text messaging feature.

Strangely, applications like Skype also do many of these things and frankly more.  In fact, Skype’s dialer can easily be confused with the iPhone’s built-in version.  It has its own voicemail and SMS as well.  Also, GV Mobile, a Google Voice application, was embraced by Apple’s VP of Marketing, Phil Schiller and pushed through the Apple Store before it was unceremoniously kicked off months later.  Kicking an application out of the App Store doesn’t sound like they are still considering opening up the store to the technology.

More strangeness:

In addition, the iPhone user’s entire Contacts database is transferred to Google’s servers, and we have yet to obtain any assurances from Google that this data will only be used in appropriate ways. These factors present several new issues and questions to us that we are still pondering at this time.

This would seem somewhat hypocritical because Apple’s Addressbook application lets (and even encourages) users to sync their contacts with Google and Yahoo accounts.  In fact, those very contacts are likely already on users Google accounts through the iPhone’s syncing with Addressbook.app and that syncing with Google.

What is Apple getting at here with this reasoning?  Why all of the inconsistancies?  

Something has fundamentally changed at Apple.  Something rather big to go through all of this trouble.

I have a feeling this goes deeper than it seems and it may involve a future VoIP/Grand Central type product from Apple. 

The response by Apple also sheds some light on the review process in general.  Specifically:

There are more than 40 full-time trained reviewers, and at least two different reviewers study each application so that the review process is applied uniformly. Apple also established an App Store executive review board that determines procedures and sets policy for the review process, as well as reviews applications that are escalated to the board because they raise new or complex issues. The review board meets weekly and is comprised of senior management with responsibilities for the App Store. 95% of applications are approved within 14 days of being submitted. We receive about 8,500 new applications and updates every week, and roughly 20% of them are not approved as originally submitted. In little more than a year, we have reviewed more than 200,000 applications and updates.

In his clarification of yesterday’s USA Today article, Google’s Vice President, Mobile Platforms Andy Rubin said: "We look forward to the day when consumers can access any application, including VoIP apps, from any device, on any network."

In case you are wondeering who Andy Rubin is and why you should care:

• He’s a former Apple Engineer that worked with their first attempted mobile spinoff, Magic Cap in 1994.
• He founded Danger which built the Sidekick and developed the first app store which was later turned into something pretty special by Apple.
• When Microsoft bought Danger last year he founded Android which later got taken in by Google to be the basis of their mobile efforts

To say he’s an innovator in the field is a huge understatement, he’s responsible directly or indirectly for a great deal of the advances in mobile technology over the past 10 years. That being said, it is refreshing to hear this type of communication from someone in the mobile industry with some authority.  It will be even nicer to see it put into action.

TomTom ($100), Navigon($70) and Sygic($80) turn-by-turn navigation systems all get a once over from Macworld’s Jason Snell.  Concusion: all are good but a bit pricey at the moment.  Update: Gizmodo has a more in-depth review.

We’d like to see some other apps thrown in there and also a comparison between the iPhone app and the seemingly better choice of a low end stand alone GPS which retails for around $50-$70.

Slingplayer 1.1 just hit the iTunes Store.  Unfortunately, it doesn’t include 3G access which had been rumored, at least for other carriers outside of the AT&T-controlled US.  The update seems to be a somewhat trivial one with only the following published improvements:

-Full 16×9 widescreen support (Slingbox SOLO, PRO, and PRO-HD only)
-DISH Remote Access integration (DISH Network users only)
-Faster start and channel change
-Improved remote control interface

The App is $29 a the App Store and requires a compatible Slingbox.

We don’t follow Android as closely as we probably should, so this is news to us:  Today’s USA Today says that Google is using an entirely different VoIP neutering strategy at the behest of Tmobile.  AT&T forbids Apple from allowing VoIP applications from running on their network.  T-Mobile makes Android use theirs according to the report.

Apple does allow VoIP applications over Wifi (or at least they had until Google Voice came along), esentially because AT&T doesn’t control any part of that ecosystem.  For instance, should Apple kill Google Voice functionality on the iPod touch because AT&T doesn’t want it on the iPhone?

Strangely, Tmobile/other carriers are forcing Google’s Android to take an entirely different approach.  Instead of allowing full Skype VoIP access on Android, they are only allowing Skype Lite to work on the device.  Skype Lite works a bit like Google Voice – which requires Skype to go over Tmobile’s voice line – which incurs voice minutes and often negates the benefits of VoIP. 

Also, FYI, Tmobile doesn’t allow the Skype application to work in countries where it carries the iPhone.

This policy might even be worse than AT&T…which is why Google is now being investigated by the FCC as well. 

Android "does not support a full-featured version of Skype," Skype told USA TODAY. "In order to make Skype available on Android devices, as well as hundreds of other regular mobile phones, we designed Skype Lite."In a statement prepared for USA TODAY, Google acknowledged that it "has the ability to filter," or block, VoIP. The search giant said it does that "at the request" of individual operators. Right now, there are just two Android devices in the USA: the G1 and MyTouch, both sold by T-Mobile.

Google’s explanation would seem to suggest that T-Mobile requested the block on Skype, but the carrier says that’s not the case. "T-Mobile has not asked Google to block that service," says spokesman Joe Farren, referring to original Skype.Google says the latest version of Android for developers would support full VoIP, but no developer has submitted an app.

It is good to see that the FCC is opening up the inquiry to the whole industry and not singling out Apple/AT&T.  We’re pretty sure Verizon and Sprint could use a good looking over too.

Update: Andry Rubin of Google wants to clarify that the USA Today might have been speculating without cause (and takes a second to jab at the Apple/AT&T situation:

I wanted to briefly set the record straight about an inaccurate claim in Friday’s USA Today. The article stated:

Here are the facts, clear and simple: While the first generation of our Android software did not support full-featured VoIP applications due to technology limitations, we have worked through those limitations in subsequent versions of Android, and developers are now able to build and upload VoIP services.

While individual operators can request that certain applications be filtered if they violate their terms of service, USA Today is wrong to say that:

As we told USA Today earlier in the week Google did not reject an application from Skype or from any other company that provides VoIP services. To suggest otherwise is false. At this point no software developer — including Skype — has implemented a complete VoIP application for Android. But we’re excited to see — and use — these applications when they’re submitted, because they often provide more choice and options for users. We also look forward to the day when consumers can access any application, including VoIP apps, from any device, on any network.

Apple Remote Desktop version 3.3.1 Client and Server was released this morning with the following improvements:

• Improves support for accessing client computers and task servers behind NAT (Network Address Translation) routers.
• Includes Task Server and Directory Server scanners, for finding client computers known by your task server and clients in computer groups on a directory server.
• New "Reporting" tab in client computer Info window, to set a single reporting policy for the client computer, shared by all Remote Desktop administrator computers.
• New "Administrators" tab in client computer Info window, to display and control which admin computers and task servers are associated with each client computer.
• Client settings configurable by Managed Preferences in Workgroup Manager.
• Support for finding and adding client computers via wide-area Bonjour.
• Resolves an issue using Lock Screen or Curtain mode on a client computer that’s at the login window.
• Improves stability when running Remote Desktop Admin on a Task Server.
• Resolves an issue that could cause build_hd_index files to become very large.
• Improves compatibility with the Application Firewall.
• Change Client Settings task now works when the Remote Desktop administrator has an Active Directory account.
• Improves client stability when Sharing Screen.
• Scheduled UNIX Commands stay scheduled.
• When controlling a remote client, function keys and key combinations for actions such as Force Quit, Log Out, and the Application Switcher are now all sent to the remote computer.
• Improves screen sharing performance with RealVNC.
• Improves performance of encrypted file copies.
• Improves performance of encrypted screen sharing connections

For detailed information about using Apple Remote Desktop 3.3, including the improvements listed above, see the Apple Remote Desktop Administrator Guide, Version 3.3, available online or via the Help men

Apple’s UK store is currently listing a shipping date for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.  Update: The US+Canadian stores are now showing August 28th as well (below).

The company has announced August 28 as the ship date for the Mac OS X Snow Leopard Up-To-Date scheme, available to new Mac purchasers who acquired their Mac since June 8, 2009. The software costs £7.95 in this situation, though UK price hasn’t yet been generally announced.

The listing follows numerous reports that Snow Leopard will be released on August 28.

Via: MacRumors