Amazon in the US has started accepting pre-orders for Apple’s forthcoming OSX 10.6, code-named Snow Leopard, and demand is so high the operating system has claimed the top two spots in its software sales charts.
The single user version of Snow Leopard, priced at $29, is top of the charts with the second place taken by the family version, for five users, costing $49. The price is considerably lower than previous versions, which are traditionally priced at around $129.
Apple is also selling a boxed set of Snow Leopard and Apple’s iWork and iLife application suites for $169 or $229 for five users. The server edition of Snow Leopard, called Mac OS X Server version 10.6, selling for $499.
No release date has been set as yet for the operating system but it is expected to be released in September. This will put it out ahead of Windows 7, which is due out in October.
Snow Leopard will only be available for Apple users with systems using Intel’s processors and is the first operating system the company has released that uses 64-bit memory, which will make it much faster because it can use much more system memory.
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