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Apple announces $9.95 Mac OS X Snow Leopard Up-to-Date Program
Following today's unveiling of Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Apple announced that the new Mac operating system will be released in September 2009. Any qualifying Mac or Xserve purchased on or after June 8, 2009 will qualify for the program thereby allowing purchases to upgrade to the new operating system for $9.95 (U.S.) plus any shipping and handling fees.
Details of the program
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 at the Up-to-Date page. 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 here.
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