Apple announced today that Snow Leopard – its hotly anticipated operating system update – would be coming this Friday, August 28th.
In a related announcement just moments ago, the Mac user community announced that it too would be coming on Friday, shortly after receiving delivery of Snow Leopard.
Speaking on behalf of the community, Chicago MUG president Eric Northam said “Based on what we’ve seen of developer seeds, Snow Leopard looks to be an exciting release, full of the rich technologies that give hopeless squealing nerds like us immediate wood. The install process should take roughly an hour which is way more time than we’re used to holding out, so we expect climax to be achieved within moments of restart.
“In my case, for example, tracking currently says Snow Leopard should be delivered to my house around 10:20 AM, so I fully expect to have jizzed my pants by about 11:30.”
While Snow Leopard is not being touted as a feature-rich update, Mac users say their pent-up demand is because they “haven’t gotten any for almost two years“.
“Just because we’re used to it doesn’t mean we like it,” Northam said.
Rumors that Apple would be handing out Snow Leopard-themed boxes of Kleenex for purchasers who line up at retail stores could not be confirmed.
Not first?
second!! pizow!!!
Ewwwwww…. Operating system installations should only occur between a consenting adult and a consenting computer using anti-virus protection.
Ben Compton?! Of the very popular Arrive Having Eaten?! That Ben Compton?!
Anyone can get Apple Phylactic as part of their purchase. But for just $99 a year, you can get Apple Pro Phylactic, which increasingly seems like it might be a good idea.
Plus you get a cool black plastic card.
‘developer seeds’?
Oh Moltz, really….
Incidentally, why are we all still bookmarking and loading up this supposedly hiating site?
Seriously, how fucking sad are we?
And can anyone answer that with a flow-chart and some clip-art?
Honestly John… is this the best you can do? How many times does “come” have to be used as innuendo before everyone recognizes that it’s pathetically old and tired?
Maybe hiatus isn’t such a bad idea.
Under top ten, woohoo!
*cue incest jokes about the “Family Pack.”*
Add me to the list of pathetic hanger-ons.
Oh, wait, now I remember why I went on hiatus!
Well, Moltz, since you are *actually* John Gruber, you have actually known about this for a month.
Aaron sounds upset. Like he finished a little too early.
Oh to be fourteen again… Wait, I am fourteen again!
Never mind.
So maybe there is truth to the rumor that Snow Leopard will be hampered by Trojans.
That would have been very funny were I not British and therefore completely unaware that Trojans are condoms. Alas.
As it is, I am now very confused.
And in danger of rushing out and buying some anti-virus software like those terribly nice impartial chaps at Symantec keep telling me to.
The Interweb: it’s a cultural *minefield*, no?
So, as I understand it, your premise is that Mac nerds only masturbate when an OS upgrade comes out?
Specially for Streetrabbit,
First the Ashes, then young Johnnie posts again, now Snow Leopard, next Father Christmas.
I can die happily.
Hurrah for the Ashes.
Now let’s see if we can actually hold on to them for a change.
I remember the good old 80s.
Ahhh…
@Streetrabbit – No, we masturbate several times per day. When I get on my Mac in the morning. When I take a lunch break around noon. When I am done working and can bring up World of Warcraft. When I am done playing World of Warcraft.
@John Moltz – Remember, some of us enjoy these little bits you feed us from time to time. Those other people (like that annoying Aaron with no sense of humor whatsoever) only come here to spew at us. (You like how I played off your line of humor there? huh? huh? Ya, it was good for me, too. Got a cigarette?) Keep giving these little gems that brighten my week? month? ahh, you get the idea, right? If we didn’t look forward to more, we’d erase the bookmark.
My Snow Leopard was pre-ordered and is zooming towards me as we speak. Well, I’m speaking. You’re listening. But you get the idea.
Hmm, almost lunch time. Anyone seen my roll of paper towels?
@Rob R. — I hope you work at home. Otherwise, I’d hate to be one of your coworkers.
Unless he works in the porn industry, of course. In which case:
a) I’d love to be one of his coworkers and
b) On that frequency, surely he’s slacking off.
…
Fnarp.
‘slacking off’
Oh my…
Mr. Moltz, I’ve gotten plenty since 10.5 was released. There’s been 8 blissful updates, not to mention the security update quickies.
I pre-ordered snow leopard and it arrived this morning. I wasn’t certain how to install it at first so I looked online. They said insert it into the dvd drive. I was really hard getting that snow leopard into the drive and now my computer is making really loud Rawring noises and bouncing up and down. On the plus side my laptop keeps biting people who come into my office so I don’t get bothered as often.
I’m not updating tonight.
Headache.
I’m going to wait until the CDC has data on all the things that stop working under Snow Leopard. Patience is a virtue. Plus, Amazon just sent me email telling me not to expect my pre-order until September 9 at the earliest. Grrrr….
Wait, that’s Tony the Tiger.
In a related news item, Apple announced that future operating system releases would be named for different breeds of foxes.
… beginning with Mac OS X version 10.10, “Jennifer Connelly.”
@Benny,
That would be “Jennifer frickin’ Connelly”….
@J0n,
Among us CARS Cogniscenti, well, of course you’re right. I was just relating “Apple’s official” name. Sort of like the difference between the official “Mac OS X Leopard” and the more informal and familiar “Mac OSX-y p0wnz uR Vista Leopard.”
I pre-ordered Snow Leopard with promises of “delivery by Friday” if I ordered on time (which I did). And just as I expected… NO DELIVERY TODAY. How the hell does Apple get away with making these ridiculous promises? They sure as hell got my money when they wanted it though. And of course, there’s no one whatsoever to contact about this. What bullshit.
Like most good things, Snow Leopard is worth waiting for. When it arrives, it will be hungry and too warm. Feed and make a bed for it in the fridge. By this time, you’ll be s fed up and you’ll send it back.
When did this thing go tweet? I’m staying with my G5 until the bitter end-no Snow Leopard for me.
I… um… wow.
I don’t really have anything snarky right now, so I’ll just post something later.
Ya’ll don’t mind, do you?
Has it occurred to anyone else here that the word “tablet” has the same number of letters as “sexbot?”. And also the same number of syllables and the same number of consonants and the same number of vowels? And that both are easy to hold and touch-sensitive? Could it be that Apple’s tablet’s no tablet the same way that Apple’s Snow Leopard’S no Leopard? You don’t suppose that all the recent rumors about an up-coming “tablet” from Apple is actually all just some cheap trick?
Naaah! It couldn’t be… could it?
Tim, I think you’re onto something. Or maybe just “on” something.
Which will cause John to come off of hiatus, posting or not posting? If the latter, please erase this post.
Has it also occurred to anyone that ‘tablet’ actually *means* sexbot, but only in the ancient tongue of weeshfultinking, that I just made up in my brain?
Brain?
What’s that?
There’s a deli downtown that sells ancient tongue, if that’s your cup of tea.
See how I planted my ‘ancient tongue’, waiting for either Nxxx or Ace Deuce to happen upon it?
I was rather hoping for something more smutty, to be honest. As I was with the first sentence of this post. But it’s all too easy.
…
Oh come on, I’m practically writing this for you.
Moltz, help us out here…
Nxxx,
“Which will cause John to
Come off of his hiatus?”
Maybe a haiku…?
Which leads me to ask:
Where’s Bill Eccles now that we
Need a great haiku?
A grape haiku has
the flavor of purple prose
in a poet tree
Brilliant, Ace, brilliant! That should do nicely.
John should be off hiatus any minute now…
Waiting patiently……………………………………………
Still waiting, although a little less patiently.
Okay… so the haiku’s not working.
The fact that it failed is quite irking.
But,.. what might do the trick
Is a good limerick!
Maybe THAT will draw John from his lurking!
Anyone got a good limerick we could use?
Here’s one I ran across recently in a compendium of Nobel-prize-winning literature:
Okay… so the haiku’s not working.
The fact that it failed is quite irking.
But,.. what might do the trick
Is a good limerick!
Maybe THAT will draw John from his lurking!
Problem is, a limerick needs to be bawdy to lure Moltzy from his lair, and I don’t do bawdy.
Or lunch.
Or Jennifer Frickin’ Connelly.
Try a riddle.
What have sperm and lawyers in common?
A one in fifty million chance of becoming human.
Anybody confirm John is a lawyer?