New Operating System/Servers Everywhere
As you might have noticed, Apple finally announced the shipping date for Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5): It’ll be available starting at 6PM on October 26th. Expect to see lines forming at the Apple Store!
It’ll be $129, unless you’ve purchased a new Mac or Xserve on or after October 1, 2007, you can get Leopard for $9.95.
If you buy a Mac AFTER October 26th, it’s free and pre-installed!
Be sure to check out the new features… They’ve done a lot of work to make your computing experience easier and more enjoyable. I’ve been up here in Silicon Valley for days now, learning how to support my clients that will be using Leopard, and it’s a BIG update. Much to learn, and all of it good. Microsoft Windows is miles further back than it was before, and it’s disappearing over the horizon. Apple’s stock value is going to go much higher, because the Mac is going to eat up a lot of market-share that was unavailable before.
I’m very excited about the Leopard Server software. They’ve changed it so that most small businesses will be able to own a powerful server computer that will do automatic backups (that are ridiculously easy to restore), handle all calendar and addresses for the whole company, share printers and provide centralized storage. The price-point has dropped to a tenth of what it would have been for the same storage, power and features a couple of years ago, and it’s Macintosh-easy to manage. 2008 is the Year of the Leopard Server, folks.
I was a faithful Apple fan ten years ago, when there was much doubt about Apple’s future. Life is much less stressfu, now that Apple is building one success upon another!
