Oct 16 2007
Apple announces dates for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and Mac OS X Server Leopard
Apple today announced that Mac OS X Leopard will go on sale Friday, October 26 at 6:00 p.m. at Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers, and that Apple’s online store is now accepting pre-orders. As we have been shown low these many delayed months, Leopard is packed with more than 300 new features and introduces a brand new desktop with Stacks, a new way to easily access files from the Dock; a redesigned Finder that lets users quickly browse and share files between multiple Macs; Quick Look, a new way to instantly see files without opening an application; Spaces, an intuitive new feature used to create groups of applications and instantly switch between them; and Time Machine, an effortless way to automatically back up everything on a Mac.
Mac OS X version 10.5 Leopard will be available on October 26 for a suggested retail price of USD$129 for a single user license, and online pre-orders can be made through Apple’s online store starting today. The Mac OS X Leopard Family Pack is a single-household, five-user license that will be available for a suggested retail price of USD$199. Volume and maintenance pricing is available from Apple. The standard Mac OS Up-To-Date upgrade package is available to all customers who purchased a qualifying new Mac system from Apple or an Apple Authorized Reseller on or after October 1, 2007 for a shipping and handling fee of USD$9.95. Leopard requires a minimum of 512MB of RAM and is designed to run on any Macintosh computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5 or G4 (867 Mhz or faster) processor. Full system requirements can be found online.
Also announced today, Mac OS X Server version 10.5 Leopard will also go on sale on Friday, October 26, at the same time as Mac OS X Leopard. Leopard Server extends Apple’s ease of use, making it easier to take advantage of the benefits of a server, and introduces Podcast Producer, the ideal way to automatically publish podcasts to iTunes or the web. Leopard Server packs more than 250 new features including wiki Server, allowing people to collaboratively create and modify their shared web sites with just a few clicks; and iCal Server, the world’s first commercial CalDAV standard-based calendar server.
Mac OS X Server version 10.5 Leopard will be available for a suggested retail price of USD$499 for a 10-client edition and USD$999 for an unlimited-client edition. An unlimited client license of Leopard Server is included with Apple’s powerful Xserve rack-mount server hardware at no extra charge. Online pre-orders can be made through the Apple Store starting today and current subscribers to the Apple Maintenance Program will receive Leopard Server as part of their service agreement. Volume and maintenance pricing is available from Apple. The standard Mac OS Up-To-Date upgrade package is available to all customers who purchased a qualifying new Xserve system from Apple or an Apple Authorized Reseller on or after October 1, 2007 for a shipping and handling fee of USD$9.95. Leopard Server can run on any Macintosh computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5, or G4 (867 Mhz or faster) processor, a minimum 1GB of RAM and at least 20GB of available disk space.
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