Posted in Macrumors.com this week an apparantly lucky so and so received their brand new Mac Mini with a little extra surprise.  A Snow Leopard 10.6 instal disk.  Could this be a mistake?  Could have this been a planned Apple leak?  Is this fake?  You decide.  But it has done a lot to stir up the rumor mill as to when Snow Leopard is shipping.

In fact, most rumors are now pointing to Aug. 28th as the date.  Here is a question for you all.  Since this is WAY earlier than Win 7, will this effect Win 7’s launch at all.  The two positives out the of the gate for Snow Leopard would then be the early release and the price.  Any thoughts?

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Ok, I am a bit late with this post but Rich over at WindowsObserver.com posted something on Sunday that is quite an eyebrow raiser.  According to rich:

After seeing a few tweets on this I had to go check it out myself and was quite amazed at what I saw. On the Amazon.com MAC OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard product page it shows what customers ultimately buy after viewing the item – and it shows that 75% of them head over and purchase either the Windows 7 Home premium Upgrade (50%) or the Windows 7 Professional Upgrade (25%).

If the OS X update is #1 in Software already then that means a lot of people are buying the Windows 7 upgrade from that page. I would love to talk to some of those folks and find out how they got on that page in the first place and then ended up buying the Windows 7 upgrade.

WHAT?!  Some interesting developments.  What does all this mean? One thing is for sure, the Win7 vs. OSX debate will be a fantastic one once both OS’s are ready to go.

Any thoughts?  We welcome your comments.

Looks like reports are coming in that Apple is going to make an upgrade to Snow Leopard only $9.99 if you buy a Mac between June 8th and September when the new OS is available.  Gee…$20 savings. Wow.  What will I do with that extra cash?  Maybe buy an iTunes gift card? 

Seriously, you have to admit if you are in the Mac camp things are just about perfectly rosy in the upgrade department.  Makes me want to forgo the Dell Mini and get that 13″ MacBook Pro.  More on that on tomorrow night’s show

Some Apple developers have leaked some more information about some new implementations in Snow leopard today.  One that is particular interest to me is the way Snow Leopard will allow you to dig deeper into the stack.  I have always considered stacks to be no so ready for prime time.  This looks like a more complete idea.

According to Appleinsider:

Developers testing Snow Leopard can also navigate nested folders from within a Stack. In Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, clicking on a folder from within a Stack would open that folder in the Finder and close the Stack. But in Snow Leopard, users can navigate deep into Stacks presented in grid view, with each parent grid being thrust into a minimized grid window in the upper left-hand corner of the grid as the user digs deeper into the Stack.

Check out the article for more Snow Leopard tidbits.

The hilarious parody newspaper the Onion (which originated in my hometown of Madison, WI btw) compares the aspects of Snow Leopard and Windows 7 in their own humorous way.  Enjoy!

See the full article here